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Posts by AmiralPatate‭

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Q&A 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...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by AmiralPatate‭

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Q&A 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 ...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭

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Q&A 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 ideal...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭

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Q&A 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 an...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭

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Q&A 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 ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by AmiralPatate‭

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Q&A 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. ...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by AmiralPatate‭

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Q&A 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 plan...

12 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by AmiralPatate‭

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Q&A 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 havi...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by AmiralPatate‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by AmiralPatate‭