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2084
... Saw that before. Nice and easy to transport and assemble. Seems rigid enough that you ought to be able to just mount one on a solid substrate and transport...
Greg Porter
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Sep 1, 2008
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2085
... Forgot to mention some other ideas. Maybe it could be adapted to some extent to making the hull of small boats and airships (unmanned). The thickness and...
neil3m2002
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Sep 2, 2008
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2086
Some interesting designs for cities and buildings science fiction settings: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/retro-future-to-stars.html ...
neil3m2002
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Sep 8, 2008
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2087
Very graphic intensive sites with all those pictures, but a great timewaster to peruse and get inspiration from. A lot of other interesting links on the source...
Greg Porter
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Sep 11, 2008
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2088
New food for thought on an old article. I came across an unusual career guide in the form of a comic book with the title of "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko". ...
neil3m2002
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Sep 15, 2008
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2089
A gameworld concept I'm toying with involves some serious engineering challenges, and I'm trying to figure out just how badly I am going to have to mangle...
Greg Porter
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Sep 17, 2008
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2090
My initial suspicion is that you'd need 'unobtainium' or some other fictional material. So...would each interior layer have a different biosystem (if any),...
Robert Blanton
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Sep 17, 2008
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2091
... I'm thinking at this point the entire structure will have a biosphere based on the same basic principles (the owners are biased), with adjustments for...
Greg Porter
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Sep 18, 2008
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2092
... Well, there's something I can help you with. Gravity is based on the mass of object1 times the mass of object 2 times a constant (called "G"), then divide...
Geoff Heald
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Sep 18, 2008
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2093
... Well, there's something I can help you with. Gravity is based on the mass of object1 times the mass of object 2 times a constant (called "G"), then divide...
Robert Blanton
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Sep 18, 2008
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2094
... Part of the trick is the ability of the material to withstand compressive stress. Remember, we're talking 100km ceilings between layers. Even with...
Greg Porter
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Sep 19, 2008
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2095
... I suspect that a hollow structure would tend to act a lot of like a soap bubble and that more complex structures would tend to act like multi-bubble...
neil3m2002
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Sep 21, 2008
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... to ... fuel ... various ... with ... 100 ... mountain ... withstand ... [snip] Just thought of more considerations for the structure and its material. One...
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Sep 28, 2008
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Some more ideas: Many of the structural elements would need to take both tensile and compressive stresses (with perhaps the exception of pre-stressed elements)...
neil3m2002
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Oct 5, 2008
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2098
... No doubt about it, any material with nearly infinite structural strength has all kind of applications...;) For the application I have in mind, I suspect...
Greg Porter
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Oct 5, 2008
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2099
... Some numbers that might help. According to wikipedia for graphene, it has a Young's modulus of 0.5TPa under mechanical properties. ...
neil3m2002
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Oct 5, 2008
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2100
Totally whipping something from my rectal orifice here but you *could* use a multi-layered high-pressure atmospere in some of the layers with controlled...
Mark
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Oct 11, 2008
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2101
... I assume you mean using the rotating atmosphere bands as part of a generator and tapping that power? Greg BTRC...
Greg Porter
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Oct 12, 2008
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... might ... three ... the ... Some more numbers. For a simplified consideration of strength of materials, if it could be looked as simple mass (for the...
neil3m2002
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Oct 12, 2008
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2103
An earlier article covered the idea of games need and use of certain gambling tricks for gaming interest: ...
neil3m2002
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Oct 18, 2008
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2104
I am going to be gone for several weeks. Here is an article link of someone who worked on a laser program that was cancelled decades ago in the 1960s and...
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Oct 27, 2008
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2105
Some links for those who want to know various tricks involving levers, wedges and others for force multipliers. ...
neil3m2002
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Nov 17, 2008
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2106
Some background thoughts to consider: Are fans of stories enough to provide energy to gods? This could have an interesting effect of providing energy to "hero...
neil3m2002
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Nov 24, 2008
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I don't know about the metaphysical reality of the situation, but from a practical standpoint, gods presumably need a reason to want the worship and adulation...
Greg Porter
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Nov 24, 2008
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2108
... This reminds me a bit of Bill Willingham's comic book series 'Fables'. The basic concept is that the characters from myth and folklore are still alive...
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Nov 24, 2008
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Some ideas for a "How to be a success" for gods idea using the WarP World and the old Primal Order supplement. God questions: 1) What is the actual nature of...
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Dec 1, 2008
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... the ... of ... entities ... they ... in ... over ... Power ... be ... would ... if ... grain ... points ... life. ... set ... Forgot to add one more...
neil3m2002
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Dec 1, 2008
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Some other questions that has answers that are campaign dependent which affects how at least some gods would plan and act: 1) What is the relationship between...
neil3m2002
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Dec 7, 2008
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An article link: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/articles/20081202.aspx "...Two years after the first of these systems, RadarVision, became available,...
neil3m2002
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Dec 8, 2008
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2113
Looking up the stats on the Xaver 400, I don't think it's quite ready for prime time use, at least not on robots. With a maximum range of 20 meters and a...
Greg Porter
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