Activity for Olga
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How to deliver materials necessary for terraforming? A lifeless moon of a gas giant (which orbits a K-type star [4200K] at about 0.7 AU) is chosen to become home to a space colony. Colonists plan to transform it from a barren rock into a garden of Eden. Since this moon lacks water, nitrogen, and $CO2$, they need to be mined in the asteroid belt and oth... (more) |
— | almost 7 years ago |
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How to Effectively Collect and Recycle Space Junk? The Question What would be an efficient and relatively low-cost solution for collecting and recycling of space junk? The most important criterion of effectiveness is the ability to remove even small pieces of junk from the orbit and then put them to good use. Small is on the scale of millimetres. ... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Radiation Protection in Mechanical Counterpressure Spacesuit I want to use mechanical counterpressure spacesuits (something along the lines of BioSuit) for my story. They seem to have many advantages over traditional pressure spacesuits. The existing prototypes are lightweight and do not restrict movement as much as traditional spacesuits. They also seem to b... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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High-Functioning Autists as Space Colonists In commentaries to my other question @JustinThyme suggested that high-functioning autists could be the best space colonists: A great deal of very successful scientists ARE autistic. Einstein, for instance, showed autistic tendencies. Autistics have a very high representation among surgeons. I... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Is It Possible to Establish a Human Colony in a Flare Star System? I am thinking about using Groombridge 1618 as a setting for my world. It is a main sequence star of spectral type K7.5 Ve, 67% of the Sun's mass. The habitable zone is at a radius of 0.26"“0.56 AU. There is a possibility that it has a gas giant around it. It also might have a cold debris disk which ... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Language mixing, shifting, and drifting (Space colony lingua franca) My space colonists (160 people) are mostly scientists with at least two advanced degrees and some research experience. They all speak English because it is a language of science today. However, the majority of them are not native speakers of English. The languages that have the most native speakers a... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Genetic engineering as an alternative to magnetosphere (radiation protection) I am trying to figure out how to build a human colony on a moon (75% of Earth size) of a gas giant. Some details of the planetary system chosen for colonisation: K-type main sequence star (about 60% of Sun size; orange; lower radiation emission than Sun); large asteroid belt which can be mined for... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |
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Habitable environment on a big moon of a gas giant lacking magnetosphere I am trying to figure out how to make a moon (75% of Earth size) of a gas giant habitable. To give an idea of the technological level, here are technologies the colonists have access to: fully automated and robotised asteroid mining; space travel at 1/10 of the speed of light; terraforming technol... (more) |
— | about 7 years ago |