Activity for AmiralPatate
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Landing a spaceship I was trying to think of a way to land a spaceship. The best I could think of was a ridiculously long airstrip for landing, and lots of catapults for takeoff, but then there was the problem of having land good enough to support the weight of a spaceship (i.e. it'd be better if you didn't have to rebu... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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What kind of materials can survive for millennia? Imagine an alien race. They are the creators of Unspecified Advanced Alien Technology™. One day they lose one of their ships. The crew had to evacuate, and the ship kind of crashed on a random planet. About four thousand years later, humans found that crash site, and found a few artifacts that they m... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Artificial gravity and inertia negation In my universe, spaceships use a device that can generate a bubble of gravity that is homogeneous and unidirectional. You can manipulate the direction and intensity of gravity in any way you want. The end result is convenient Earth-like gravity everywhere on the ship. Spaceships commonly use gravity... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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How to knock down electronics on a large scale? They say all is fair in love and war. When we plan to invade our enemy's planet, we don't want fair. We want to strike them while they're down. We infiltrated sleeper agents in key points of their infrastructure. Those agents have laid down the ground work we need when the day comes. Agent 2215 is a... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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How to end the world by earthquake? For the sake of convenience, this happens on Earth. However, in this scenario only the American continent (all of it) is inhabited. One of the countries is experimenting with extremely advanced and extremely hazardous power generation technology, codename project Nova. The Nova facility is located u... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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How to boost the immune system? Imagine the human body has access to infinite energy through some magic. How could that be useful in any capacity to "boost" the immune system? By boost I mean more resistance to disease, and ideally the capacity to naturally heal from disease that normally require medical treatment (my go-to example... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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Problems with spaceships: attitude control Let's consider DCR-97, HMSS Liberty, 300 kilotonnes (or 300 Gg) of dreadnought-carrier ship. It's a big one. Let's say it can move forward. Let's say it could potentially move backward, or at the very least slow down. Now it would be top if it could just steer left/right/up/down without gravity-assi... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |
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How to determine one's position in space? On Earth you can find your position through GPS, with clever use of satellites, timestamps and maths. Now imagine you're on a spaceship, there no satellite and nothing is going to give you the time. Yet, you need to find where you are relative to galactic center (which is the zero of my coordinate sy... (more) |
— | over 8 years ago |