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| qwertyman |
 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: Ringworld |
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setting aside costs, resourses and current technology, would it be possible to create a ringworld?
or even (i forget the proper name) a sphere-world.
(a sphere with people living on the outside and a star on the inside, with solar panneling on the inside so as to have a near infinite power supply
I am talking about the Ringworld from Larry nivens novel Ringworld rather than the rip-offs such as Halo.
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| Bunbury |
| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| The fundamental question would be: do the laws of physics allow the manufacture of a material with the supposed tensile strength of scrith, equal to the strong nuclear force? |
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| DivideByZero |
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| Bunbury wrote: |
| The fundamental question would be: do the laws of physics allow the manufacture of a material with the supposed tensile strength of scrith, equal to the strong nuclear force? |
..so whats the fundamental answer? |
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| Bunbury |
| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| CircularlyPolarized |
| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Gee, that's Science's answer for everything.
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| Ophiolite |
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| CircularlyPolarized wrote: |
| Gee, that's Science's answer for everything. |
Excellent. Now you understand the fundamentals you can begin to take in the more advanced stuff.
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| CircularlyPolarized |
| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: |
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The "more advanced stuff" being that everything's the fundamental of something even more advanced. Yes, I've read chemistry 
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| Scifor Refugee |
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| I don't think there's any known fundamental reason why we couldn't do it. But we also don't have any idea whatsoever how to do it. |
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