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Posts by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Is this the right name for the site?

What about simply reversing the name? Instead of "Speculative Science", potentially implying speculating about science (with all the implications of that), we could have "Scientific Speculation", i...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Character set conversion(?) failure during initial import from SE

I've fixed the most obvious failures in SQL. Beyond that... the posts are now UTF8, so fixing the encoding retroactively is difficult if not impossible - if there are other common bugs please let m...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Where in the solar system is the most viable place to put my colonists, after Mars and Luna?

Habitability For a cosmic body to be habitable by humans, it needs to have a few things (or substitutes for those things): Oxygen Water Correct temperature Food source Some of those we can bri...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Rigorous Science Moons of Moons of Moons

Theoretically infinite, though the classification would get interesting. Consider the Moon. It orbits us, the Earth. That's a nesting of 0, right? Now consider the Earth. What's to say that the Ea...

posted 8y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Rigorous Science Can stars that are not powered by nuclear fusion exist?

It's hard to conceive of a star that doesn't supply itself by nuclear fusion, except those that already exist. Some background Nuclear fusion is a process by which two nuclei of two atoms fuse to...

posted 8y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Rigorous Science Could we improve space travel using beamed energy?

It is some small number of years into the future. We are regularly using beamed energy, as defined in this answer: large arrays of microwave transmitters. We have developed this so that these array...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Rigorous Science Low-tech inertial dampener options

As you say, just give them low-tech inertial dampeners. If you're using inertial dampeners to mean the same as I am, then we already have the technology to do this and it's used in many places. Ta...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Rigorous Science What power generation method is the best to sustain a hovering city?

The Technology We're in the year 2250 on an Earth-like planet. All the space on the earth's surface has been used up by the population of 15 billion, so we're moving into the air. Cities, along wi...

13 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Which current networking protocol would be the optimal choice for very small FTL bandwidth?

Does it differ from the early days of the internet - in another sense, would it be possible to handle with any protocols ever developed in the field of computer networks? No, that's not possib...

posted 7y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Is there a reason to believe that programming languages are going to converge?

TL;DR: No. Programming languages are too diverse. Reason 1: Purpose There are, according to Wikipedia's list of programming languages, 806 distinct programming languages, excluding BASIC dialects...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A What would make a sky appear purple during the day?

Sky Colour The sky looks blue to us because of two major factors: Atmospheric composition Light hue and intensity There are also a number of other factors including atmospheric temperature and...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Scientifically Plausible Reincarnation?

I think the most scientifically plausible method available to us with what we know is one that has been mentioned: use computers. However, the tech required is still out of our current range, so if...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A What if two planets orbited each other and also a star?

This situation is quite similar to the current Earth-Moon system. As another answer here says, the two bodies do orbit each other, around a central point called the barycentre. The barycentre of th...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Is triple-strands or multiple-strands DNA possible?

It is possible but impractical. Double-helix DNA's structure is something like this: $$ \text{B "” (A/C/T/G) : (T/G/A/C) "” B} $$ where B is a backbone molecule, A/C/T/G is adenine/cytosine/thym...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Larger moon = Larger Tides = No oceanic ships?

It would not discourage oceanic shipping, but it would make the times it can be done more selective. If you have a port that is 20m deep and full at high tide, with our Moon you should still have ...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A City in the wake of the Yggdrasil: Engineering Considerations

I think your concerns may be well founded. This city will be fairly similar to most other cities and I don't think there's a whole lot you can do about it. However, it will have a couple of good at...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A What are the design considerations for my underwater settlement?

Communication Seawater is highly resistive to radio waves at the frequencies we usually use them. (see page 7, section Sea Water.) However, at lower frequencies, 10-30 kHz, it is entirely possible...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Restoring the world after a global apocalypse

Note: for the purposes of this answer, I have assumed no tech remains. If you do have tech surviving, then many of these steps will be easier. There seem to me to be a number of steps that you mus...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Brutal, unsubtle brainwashing: how does it work?

As Pavel says, brainwashing is a process. And it's a process that's been done already. 1995, Russia. The Cold War is over. Boris Yeltsin in power. There is some resentment left over from the Cold ...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Would white pupils/irises on an animal allow it to see properly?

The pupil is black not because it's coloured, but because there's no light coming back out to colour the image you see. A pupil any other colour than black implies light coming back out, which in ...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A What would happen to a planet without its core?

Collapse. Gravity takes care of this. As soon as you remove the core from the Earth, you have a large void in the middle of it, and a lot of gravity acting straight towards the centre of that void...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How To Eat the Moon

Do it over time. On each rocket launch, you can attach a bit of the required resources. Give it some small booster rockets to direct it the right way. When the rocket is at the peak of its parabol...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A You've made it to another star! Now, how do you find its planets?

You can do it most effectively by looking before you get there. Point your big telescope at the sky in the direction of your destination star. Record the image it captures. Repeat step 1 every mo...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A What if an Earth-like planet had no axial tilt? (impact on ecosystem)

I'll do a quick explanation of the impacts of Earth's axial tilt to start off: As Earth orbits the sun, it's tilted at 23.5 degrees. This varies between 21 and 25 degrees, but I'll ignore that bec...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How would a person with modern knowledge of chemistry and medicine fare in Ancient times?

Your biggest problem by far here is going to be getting other people to believe you. I'm assuming this mystical tutor is from the future? Given that, surely he must know that there will be problem...

posted 9y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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