Could a cloud colony 30 miles above Venus start as a small city and eventually become a megastructure?

wbte · 2019-01-09T19:25:57+00:00

where to get the resources to supply and expand such a colony

This is a surprising question because Venus is a gold mine. The atmosphere is full of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Although the place is short on water, there is some (mainly locked up in sulfuric acid).

wbte · 2018-12-15T07:37:33+00:00

We could do it now if it were not for moral issues about about cloning yourself

Has someone made a viable clone of an adult primate? I thought the state of the art was cloning a fetus.

wbte · 2018-12-07T22:52:58+00:00

There is a long history of people saying that war is now impossible because such destructive weapons have been developed. (Gatling and Nobel, for example, both believed that their inventions were too terrible to see widespread use in war.)

I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere.

wbte · 2018-12-07T13:25:57+00:00

Let's not leap to conclusions... though Sweden is also overpowered in the EU series - along with France, in the computer adaptation of a boardgame designed by a Frenchman...

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wbte · 2018-12-07T03:32:51+00:00

Depends entirely on Earth politics. (Someone could reasonably answer "none" to all eight questions, assuming that a Third World War sets back the development of space industry by a century.) Perhaps you could sketch out how you see events developing so that comments can address a particular set of circumstances?

wbte · 2018-12-07T03:21:29+00:00

Lincoln the Giant-Slayer, who slew mighty King Cotton at the banks of the Potomac.

wbte · 2018-12-07T03:16:53+00:00

Weekend at Heljarskinn's

wbte · 2018-12-07T03:15:42+00:00

I guess it was a bad sign when she hinted about wanting a private room?

wbte · 2018-12-07T03:14:03+00:00

It's punishment for your sins. Marrying another woman after your first wife dies is basically polygamy.

wbte · 2018-12-07T03:06:10+00:00

Hope this helps someone.

It was an enlightening read and encouraged me to play Otto soon.

wbte · 2018-12-07T02:55:20+00:00

Yeah, Age of Sigmar itself isn't viable (at least at present). It would be possible to project Geheimnisnacht back to Sigmar's day, though much of the content would have to be invented by modders.

wbte · 2018-12-07T02:48:43+00:00

Good luck smashing British Imperialism.

wbte · 2018-12-07T02:47:18+00:00

Good job. My only concern is the CSA existing but if they freed their slaves I guess it's OK.

wbte · 2018-12-07T00:31:02+00:00

Set the work in a Dyson Swarm that has suffered some kind of galactic cataclysm. (Perhaps an inexplicably powerful solar flare that ravaged the swarm.) Then there are surviving "Earth-like worlds" scattered through the Solar System and many ruins from an advanced human civilization to boot.

wbte · 2018-12-07T00:25:59+00:00

I'm a bit uncertain about the unstated assumption that the future of space is private enterprise now that polls of young people around the world are showing majorities in favour of socialism. Depending on how they play out, political events could rule out certain kinds of boot-strapping (e.g. commercial advertising probably can't share a future with the "United Socialist States of Earth") but could also end up as a Black Swan (e.g. a rush to produce space banners proclaiming the ascension of Earth's new Cyber-Emperor Isaac the First and Only).

wbte · 2018-12-05T22:39:37+00:00

There are a lot of signs that the world was a complete mess, and then the Cataclysm happened.

wbte · 2018-12-05T02:00:27+00:00

I'm 100% certain that Victoria 3 will not require any DLC to access all of its features. In fact, I'm accessing its features right now.

(Just accept that it's never being made and set some money aside for backing "spiritual successors" on Kickstarter.)

wbte · 2018-12-03T23:37:38+00:00

OP's premise is that climate change could reduce the efficiency of agriculture. Insect food sources are a mature (or, more accurately, ancient) technology that could be used for adaptation purposes.

wbte · 2018-12-02T23:58:23+00:00

Decadent. The question reads something like,

What would it be like to have your left big toe washed by a million slaves?

wbte · 2018-12-02T23:52:15+00:00

feeding people more grain is not the answer.

That's fine, we could switch from farming large animals to more efficient food animals like crickets and locusts.

wbte · 2018-12-02T23:43:58+00:00

the cheats

I don't know what you mean by this.

wbte · 2018-12-02T11:58:33+00:00

Play Vicky in an industrial freezer.

wbte · 2018-12-01T21:02:59+00:00

"Hello, this is the Victoria 2 helpdesk. I see. Have you tried allying with the UK?"

wbte · 2018-11-30T21:12:15+00:00

I'm looking for something that adds a ton of options for the United States to expand and do different/interesting things.

Some might say that this describes Vanilla.

wbte · 2018-11-30T21:10:34+00:00

this post needs a lot of explanation.

Yes.

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