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Can an Alcubierre drive be built by starlifting?
I am setting up a very futuristic world for a sci-fi story, where having FTL tech would be very practical. For a bit of context, here is what I am imagining:
It is a type 3.2 - 3.3 civilisation, where ...
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Possibility of solar powered space stations around a red dwarf
I have an earth-like world orbiting an M7 red dwarf on the outer edge of the habitable zone(0.0443AU). Since red dwarfs emit more infrared light than visible light, solar panels would probably not be ...
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How to make a good landing pad for a start-up colony
Due to the expansion of humanity into the stars, landing pads have popped up on every planet with even a remote resemblance of a permanent human presence, whether they start with a dozen or a thousand ...
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How might derelict space ships/stations be only partially salvageable?
My setting is a fantasy where the average space-trekker subsides on scrapping derelict ships from a distant golden age in the past to maintain their own, with only the corporate rich being able to ...
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Would spacecraft suffer from fevers?
Spacecrafts produce a lot of heat, which must go somewhere if the inhabitants don't want to die. And in space, the only way to get rid of the heat is to radiate it away
One way of achieving this would ...
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What will real space vehicles look like in the future?
Most sci-fi today is imho unimaginative and unrealistic when it comes to future orbital and interplanetary vessel design.
What will spaceships and habitats look like when we build them in zero-g using ...
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How close can a launch pad be to a lunar base?
This is for a base that has been built up into a big, complex place. For the radiation safety of long-term residents, the walls are very thick. There are windows, that are quite large. They have quite ...
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Why does my arcology let light in, when it was originally a sleeper ship
In my story the protagonist lives in an arcology, but this is not just any arcology.
Over a 100 years ago, a global war fought between those who sided with a massively distributed and rather 'insane' ...
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How would a dirty space station with no artificial gravity look?
Just a weird question that popped in my head, but since the only real space station in existence always keeps itself squeaky clean, I wonder how one that doesn't have cleanliness as high priority ...
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Kessler Syndrome, but with extremely small particles
Congratulations! You're the new leader of the future UN(Unified Earth Country governing body), and you want to push for space travel for all. But at this point(in the futures), centuries of space ...
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The most efficient spaceport
In my works of worldbuiling I have constantly come across the problem, How to depict and create the most efficient spaceport possible for an interstellar, super advanced, space fairing species. ...
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How to redistribute weight on an O'Neill Cylinder? [duplicate]
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With a rotating cylinder, applying weight to one side and not the other will cause it to rotate off axis and give it a 'wobble' likely causing undesired gravitational effects. Now clearly ...
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How long would it take to make three hundred spaceships and an orbital defense system? [closed]
I'm about halfway through a story I'm writing, where aliens invade, beat us up, one spaceship blows them all up, etc, etc, and everyone lives happily ever after. Except they don't.
So after they chase ...
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Would it be possible to build numerous spaceships that could transport 10 million people in the late 2100's?
The crafts would have to contain large farms in order to sustain the immense amount of people, and they'd obviously have to be large and spacious to have good living conditions. I did some research, ...
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Low gravity space shipyard vs micro gravity shipyard
If you had a device, similar to a Stargate, but that allowed seamless two way transfer, and that could be moved (You could essentially strap a rocket on it, and fuel it from Earth), you could just ...
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