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Posts by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Price's Law Sanity Check

Price's Law is a hypothesis that in an organization, or across an industry, roughly half the productive output is being generated by a number of people equal to the square root of those participati...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by dsr‭

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Meta Is Scientific Speculation the Right Place for a Discussion Series About Space Sports?

I feel like science fiction doesn't have many sports, other than the occasional laser battle or fantasy sword duel. I'd like to start a discussion series about sports in a low-gravity/no-gravity e...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&A Arctic polar vortex collapse

The polar vortex nearly dies every year around springtime in the hemisphere you are concerned with. This failure is what brings those spring frosts in February, March. It's not really possible to ...

posted 2mo ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A What are the Names of the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 Regions?

The Earth-Moon Lagrange points have names: L1, L2, and L3 are Libration Points, the L4 and L5 points are the Kordylewski Clouds. The Jupiter-Sun L4 is named the Greeks, and the Jupiter-Sun L5 is n...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Does 5th Gas Giant Have a Name?

I recently learned that it's believed that the solar system once had one more gas giant, which was ejected by Jupiter some time in the past. https://thesolarsystem.fandom.com/wiki/Fifth_Giant Doe...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

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Q&A Considerations for Recreational Solar Sailing?

I was investigating a few ideas on recreational solar sailing, and came up with some interesting things - The primary equation in solar sailing is $ F = {{2 R S A} \over {c}} \sin^2{\theta} $ Whe...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A How Could Golf Change in a Low-Gravity Environment?

Low gravity golf was invented by Alan Shepard in 1971 when he hit two golf balls 40 yards on the moon. Surprisingly, this version of the sport with little atmosphere and much lower gravity, is the...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Antares‭

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Q&A PVA glue curing process

Looks like it may just be mechanical. According to this article, if true, you can rehydrate white glue with water and heat. https://simpleglue.com/how-to-revive-elmers-glue/

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A What are the Ground Effects of the South Atlantic Anomaly?

I was recently introduced to the South Atlantic Anomaly. As I understand, for satellites and space craft, this is a natural feature that can wreck space craft by taking even computers designed fo...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Meaning of Non-Locality?

Theory If I am understanding this history of this correctly, in the 1920s the mathematical process of converting measurements with a certain amount of measurement error into numbers, then doing yo...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A How Would the Sport of Wrestling Change in a Microgravity Environment?

How would competitive wrestling change in a microgravity environment?

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Large-Scale Biosphere on Mars: Interior Weather

Any volume is large enough for rain or fog. Humidity buildup (rain) is a concern in spacecraft design, and was one of the reasons (too much rain) that caused one proposed Martian settlement to fail...

posted 3mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by James McLellan‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Under "Making a Good First Impression", a few mechanical notes from someone just making the transition from WB.SE to Codidact - Question titles should probably be at the top of the page, inste...

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A How would an interstellar spaceship's speedometer work if everything else is moving?

I'd recommend a Kalman filter to increase measurement accuracy to the overlap of multiple system errors so that you get the best result. For inputs, may I recommend - a calculation of doppler s...

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Q&A High-Energy Exhaust Shielding for Far-Future Drive

You have mass flow rate and velocity, but the area this is spread over will say a lot - $$\dot{m} v = F = 1 {{kg} \over {s}} \cdot 1,000 {{km} \over {s}} \cdot 1,000 {{m}\over{km}}= 1 \times 10^{6...

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Rigorous Science Electricity from nuclear decay

According to this site, the kinetic energy of the two alpha particles emitted is 4.273 MeV. As you said, these aren't neutral atoms yet with balancing electrons. So, they are a charged plasma. Im...

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Rigorous Science How can a Type II civilization influence accretion rates from a debris disk to a passing star?

Kepler's Laws give us the velocity of everything in the debris field and comet cloud-- At any radius, $i$, the velocity of the circular orbits (and a good rough definition of a "belt", although th...

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Q&A Observations About A Literary Framework for Thinking About Genetics

I was researching genomes and observed some similarities with literature that I think might better help communicate the topic. Wanted to share them: There exists an Alphabet (A, C, G, T and some...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Where is the inside of the Tardis? Is it a world in itself? Is it part of a different world?

I think I've answered here https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/292119 . I'll re-post for easy access. Setup I realized that it's possible to design a specific box that's bigger on t...

posted 4mo ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Designing a TARDIS (Bigger on the Inside)

Setup I realized that it's possible to design a specific box that's bigger on the inside. Wanted to write this down. Relating Mass to Lorentz Contraction As velocity approaches the speed of ligh...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Ansible Design (FTL Communication)

Modulation of BBO-Entangled Light Assuming this Video of Entanglement in Action is not incorrectly hiding some additional filter operation, it seems (from the video) that you can quite obviously m...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A Discussion of Aerogel Orbital Rings [closed]

Orbital rings are a proposed megastructure intended to dramatically reduce the cost to enter or exit a planetary gravity well. The ring is a solid structure, belting around the planet like a hula h...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  closed 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A What Would a Femtometer Scale Utility Fog Be Useful For?

Utility fog is a swarm robotics concept in which a mesh of robots barely larger than a grain of pollen (5 micrometer ( $10^{-6} $ m ) bodies and 50 micrometer arms) are dodecahedrons (12 sided pol...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Q&A A hair product which is both a lipid ointment and a gel

Yes. Although this may be streching your definition of oil a bit. The oil product could host some sort of microfauna that cure the product by building EPS microstructures. https://en.m.wikipedia....

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Advertise on Gab Gab.com is an environment where very little advertising is happening (so what you spend will be visible), and the audience is almost completely people actively looking for alterna...

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭

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