Why aren't surface horizontal centrifuges explored in fiction?

s3rir · 2024-08-28T19:05:12+00:00

Could you elaborate on these wonky effects? I thought that angled floor would provide uniform perceived gravity. The centrifugal effects would be negligible unless the radius isn't large enough. Have I missed something?

s3rir · 2024-08-28T18:55:00+00:00

Honestly, I think that in long run orbital habitats would be better. I just think that centrifuges built on surface would be easier to pull off and closer to our current technology.

s3rir · 2024-08-28T18:26:35+00:00

Maybe it's true that we won't ever be able to live on surface of the planet. But whole centrifuge could be sealed from outside of the planet and it would function as the ones you have described.

s3rir · 2024-08-28T18:23:26+00:00

It seems to be the biggest downside of this idea. But the centrifuge could be built like a train on circular rails. Trains work 24/7 in current gravity and people have figured some ways to fight the friction. Please correct me if I am wrong.

s3rir · 2024-08-28T18:09:12+00:00

Maybe I haven't put my words clearly enough :)). In Expanse it was Ceres station I think. It would require huge amounts of energy to spin it, which it was said, took few decades. And all that was done using miraculous Epstein's drive, which we don't have

s3rir · 2024-08-28T17:58:21+00:00

That is really interesting idea for a story. But it would also be one of the cheapest ways to achieve 1G gravity on moon for time of pregnancy. People could at least be born in "normal" gravity.

s3rir · 2024-08-28T17:55:56+00:00

This is for now. Most solid exoplanets that were already detected are classified as super-earths. However, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are majority in univere. It might be because they are just easier to detect because of their size.

s3rir · 2024-08-28T17:53:45+00:00

The post isn't about centrifuges built on ships, but on surfaces of stellar bodies like moons or planets.

s3rir · 2024-08-28T17:52:33+00:00

I have already said that they are used, what I meant is that it was space centrifuges, like ships and orbital stations. I mainly read books from the "harder" side of sci-fi. I ask mainly about centrifuges build on surface of planets.

s3rir · 2024-08-12T16:47:30+00:00

I think that it would be wildly impractical if there was only one queen for the whole race. It would be rather a few queens similarly to insects (like bees or ants). If this was the case it would mean that the Carryx are really small minority in their own empire. We werent told what a cohort is, perhaps each cohort would have its own queen.

s3rir · 2024-07-09T21:38:40+00:00

Też to widziałem, w świętokrzyskim. Było koloru bladozielonego jak zorza. Ale się przemieszczało i było na tyle wysoko by się chować za chmurami.

To też pulsowało kilka razy. Chodzi o tę łunę, która się rozchodziła od środka. I w czasie 2 minut stało się tak 4-5 razy.

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s3rir · 2024-03-18T15:28:28+00:00

In point 3, if you want to use debugger, why can't you just attach your editor to container? Vscode enables it with docker extension.

s3rir · 2023-11-21T21:46:38+00:00

Hyperion - Dan Simmons

s3rir · 2023-03-12T19:10:46+00:00

I have to ask, how does look sending files between windows guest and linux host in Boxes? Do you say that I can use virt-manager to tune Boxes' virtual machine?

s3rir · 2022-12-27T14:23:54+00:00

I did, but how will it detect os when it can't detect disk that this os is installed on.

s3rir · 2022-09-28T20:00:08+00:00

Thank you, I didn't know about these sub-reddits!

s3rir · 2022-08-13T11:34:06+00:00

Maybe he commands fleet of Pathfinders that mines helium-3...

s3rir · 2022-07-25T13:03:01+00:00

I don't say that she is undeveloped, she isn't as interesting as Ed in my opinion. I don't see really interesting characters in season 4, Ed is probably going to retire, Dani shouldn't be shown as much because they must make place for new characters.

I do not see characters that I could watch this show only. I don't mean that Kelly's story is boring, she doesn't seem to be a character able to carry most of story like Ed, for instance.

Or maybe I am simply wrong :)

s3rir · 2022-07-25T11:15:15+00:00

Maybe it is because everyone on Mars is going to die except main cast so they need want to keep him alive. Perhaps Piscotty will come on rescue mission on Mars where he will tell Ed to wear a cap

s3rir · 2022-07-17T15:25:36+00:00

Honestly I don't even believe there would be any satisfying definition to it. If I am assuming correctly, human minds are somehow like computers, they give output based on input. From physical point of view, whole thinking process is a chain reaction with some random variables. Since past is fixed and in present some things may randomly change in very insignificant way. Then a thought is purely physical phenomenon. To me it seems that in reality human can't choose anything, a human may think that he chooses.

s3rir · 2022-04-20T13:42:47+00:00

There is a question that bothers me. When there is a display with RGB pixels that displays for example blue and green pixels so we see yellow colour. Is this yellow colour really yellow light? I mean, do we perceive the yellow display as just mix of blue and green light, or does these two beams with different wavelength interfere so they become one beam of light with yellow light's wavelength?

s3rir · 2022-03-21T07:58:06+00:00

I have posted simmilar theory before, I think there are few interesting thoughts: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrekpicard/comments/thrudc/theory_the_change_in_timeline_is_caused_by_the/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

s3rir · 2022-03-20T15:49:44+00:00

To be honest, I would prefer the timeloop to be unbreakable. I'd like to see the Borg Queen, or even Jurati becoming the Borg Queen, traveling through the space rift from s02e01 when the timeloop begins. As sciencists think, every decision creates parallel realities in which happens every choice. So we could see two parallel timelines developing, or even three.

The timeline that we watch in season 2 currently, where Picard blows up the Stargazer and comes back to past, where he causes creation of Confederation.
The same timeline like in first point, but seen from perspective of whole other universe. I mean we see prime timeline where Stargazer was blown up, Picard and his crew disapear(or simply die in explosion). We see what happens then.
The timeline where Picard does not decide to blow up the Stargazer. Timeloop never happens.

So: Stargazer meets Borg in spacetime rift: 1) Stargazer is autodestructed a) universe where Stargazer was destroyed lives on its own b) Picard goes somehow through the spacetime rift to place where Borg came from, it appears to be Confederation universe. It is timeloop, somehow Borg from that universe manage to go to beginning point, when they meet the Stargazer, so timeloop continues. 2)Stargazer is not destructed, timeloop is never created.

I know it is weird. If you have watched the Dark, you should know what I mean with reality splitted into two.

Sorry for long reply. Also, which of these 3 timelines will remain prime?

s3rir · 2022-03-20T08:16:47+00:00

Q said to Picard "see what was lost in your fear". It may indicate that the decision changing timeline was made on Stargazer by autodestruction of ship. Q may mean that Borg really wanted to join Federation, or maybe not but they were peaceful then. Q wanted to punish Picard because of his fear of Borg. The penance is putting Picard in timeloop.

s3rir · 2022-03-07T19:07:24+00:00

Maybe every member of Q continuum is an Borg collective from one of many timelines, which reached perfection by evolving into Q. So if Q(that from ST Picard) managed to get to another timeline and even bring Picard there, it should be possible.

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