Posts by KalleMP
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...
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...
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 ...
A derelict oil rig is what you are looking for. At least one has burnt up and left something standing that may still be there. There may be sea forts in the north sea that are far enough away and...
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...
I like Sepratrixes answer as it interprets the old style question framework by OP. As a start the first thing would have been to research what the Mars colonist teams have planned and then make al...
Have the very durable material canal meander slightly and have narrow side channels all along the length at the inside of the meander curves where the silt will collect. If the channel is 30m deep...
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...
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 ...
This is a very deep question and from a formal scientific basis we indeed do not have adequate information to formulate an answer. However the Hindu philosophy (and some others) instructs us that ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I don't see a Facebook page link. Any other social media. Simply having a presence there will give some people more trust. Occasionally making a post when a new forum or feature is enabled would...
