KalleMP
Electrical engineer interested in old technology and new stuff. The list includes letterpress printing, relief prints, analogue and alternative photography, Laser engravers and cutters, 3D printing, HAM radio, weaving, chemistry, X-rays and stuff.
Work experience is digital communications.
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See all 16 »You would send out a small laser or radar retroreflector out of the side of your ship and observe the tracking angle. Knowing the speed of your marker you can calculate the speed of your ship with...
posted 3y ago by KalleMP
The Honey Badger is known to kill water buffalo by ripping out their scrotum and letting them bleed out. Mostly out of spite I think for being disturbed, they mostly eat small game, honey, bee lar...
posted 3y ago by KalleMP
There are multilevel automated food plant farms in existence that are artificially illuminated. Sure they may use skylights but they have many times the growing area so the plants are not getting ...
posted 3y ago by KalleMP
Design a self replicating robot that consumes natural resources. Picture a machine that can convert wood and straw into plastic and carbon nanotube conductors and piezoelectric actuators and thi...
posted 10y ago by KalleMP
Redirecting rivers may be some help by causing desertification and changes in local rainfall. Directing them into blind valleys may cause salt pans that reflect sunlight locally which may not be d...
posted 7y ago by KalleMP
Your question related to staying down in microgravity. Without a gravity field generator or something the answer is to increase the mass. While this is not ideal from an inertia point of view it ...
posted 7y ago by KalleMP
There is no way for a galaxy government to work without faster than light something. The obvious requirement for creating the society are faster than light travel but this can be dispensed with if...
posted 6y ago by KalleMP
The most plausible reasons are solar radiation protection (sudden flares) and thermal management (less sun facing surface) as in the answers by hyperion4 and CatCat. Basically unless you decide th...
posted 6y ago by KalleMP
A similar story has been written (a mini epic really over many generations) that has a civilisation living inside space that was doomed to become uninhabitable due to excessive cosmic junk in the v...
posted 6y ago by KalleMP
Temporary patches to cover weak spots and crumble away after an hour or two. Provides protection while the damaged spot can self repair and patch provides additional protection while still in plac...
posted 6y ago by KalleMP
Good points all and valid. Civilisations of the past have failed when they outgrew their local resources, usually wood in the limit as it is impractical to transport over large distances. However...
posted 6y ago by KalleMP
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