... Try the Kuiper belt. There's a fairly good chance of more than one Earth-mass (total) of KBOs, and a smaller but still non-zero chance of single KBOs large...
Brian York
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Oct 1, 2006 7:02 am
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... Two units is insufficient unless you can guarantee your enemy will only come from certain directions, because otherwise your enemy can use one to shield...
... You must put the start date of the industrial revolution quite a ways back, because this effect starts at the latest with the widespread adoption of the...
... Have you a source for that? This isn't a dig - I'm interested in the numbers and how they were derived, because I'd have though that many modern crops,...
... ISTR that the fats you get from grains (and grain-fed meat) are not ideal for brain growth, either. Moving towards a wholey vegetable diet, especially one...
... Well, if you draw a 2d orbit on a sheet of paper, it will look like an ellipse. What you desire is that the ship will travel along the path of this...
... No source I'd cite for money--just the History Channel. I assume they only refered to the amount of water directly utilized personally, where the passtime...
... I don't have figures, but I have seen the same assertion. Rome had an enormous water supply; the aqueduct system and its capacity are pretty well known...
... The use of wind (and water) power for transportation goes back a good deal farther; certainly by classical times nearly all Mediterranean commerce moved by...
... Agree. With lasers, the threat of multi-axial attack may be enough to require more than two, depending on fairly specific aspects of technology, e.g,...
... I'd still like to see the graphical example, Isaac. :) ... Actually, this proves not to be the case. Orbits that intersect at angles greater than about 30...
... Fortunately, DoGA L3 (shareware, but fully functional for rending still images) comes with a utility that will convert most DXF models to SUF format. I...
... If you're not getting spirograph type paths involving epicycles, then you're not simulating the orbits correctly. This is pretty easy to see using a couple...
... Even in modern warfare, "suicide attacks" are the norm for guided missiles. ... Which is perfectly fine, when you're a drone carrying a load of offensive ...
... Right. Playable vector systems, even the more sophisticated ones that handle displacement, produce a fairly crude approximation of a ship's actual motion....
... I see where our disconnect is. You're assuming that my reference frame is "spaceship centric"; it isn't. It's still gravitational point source centric....
... I square that, since I need graphical illustrations of what *both* of you are talking about. :) ... I am guessing that the scale of things here is...
... Well, thinking about it, the addition of extra energy per capita of labour dates back to the use of fire, especially as a method of herding prey. Then we...
... Well, they were in Eypgt and North Africa. However, they weren't growing wassively water instensive crops in what is normally desert. OTOH, the US does...
G'day, ... Given the rest of your discussion I'm guessing this comment is refering to your image of the future cities as floating biuldings today (e.g....
... And the use of even large uncrewed vehicles as expendable missiles or drones is nothing new. Fireships are the most notable example, the crew bailing out,...
... more widely spread, given that humans like most mammals suffer stress induced syndromes at high packing densities). This is the one point that I disagree...
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