They originally wanted the station to have a glass roof but then they got rid of it and decided that magic should hold the atmosphere in (maybe some kind of forcefield to be generous?).
Some of it would stay in due to artificial gravity, but the pressure would be low enough that it would be practically nonexistant. For artificial gravity alone to hold an earth-like atmosphere, containing walls with a height roughly equal to the depth of the earth's atmosphere would be needed.
You're thinking about it all wrong. All you need to do is invent a religion that makes space travel a sacred duty. For inspiration see the works of L. Ron Hubbard and the the second Riddick movie.
True. If it can replace other forms of fossil fuel that have no chance of causing sudden uncontrollable climate catastrophes (like super-filthy coal, ideally), it might be a good idea to burn it even if we're not too sure about the odds of a "methane bomb." No chance of methane bomb + energy that's the same or less dirty = win-win.
Humans don't have limited liability protection, can go to jail, can't transfer their lives to another under a different name, can't claim income through a different tax jurisdiction, and aren't immortal.
The Elite-like approach isn't terrible. Once rotations are close to perfectly sync'ed it's no different than something like a cargo module docking with the ISS. You correct a little roll here and there until you're matched up.
For #2, you could have a hub "station" that slows to a "stop" (as in rotating with the station) and then engages an airlock, so vacuum can be allowed between the two. Or if you have to let some air leak out, it might not be that much. There are seals facing vastly harsher conditions in everyday car engines, although at a much smaller scale.
Maemo's messaging app stores passwords in a plaintext file, some users found it and wanted it obfuscated to at least make them non-trivial to retrieve. The Maemo devs argued that obfuscation would be better at lulling users into a false sense of security about what is stored than thwarting those who want to access it maliciously.
What if they can't though? What if they could never work enough to pay it back?
I think the economics of it would work out to: If the use of the machine is worth less than what you can produce for the rest of your projected lifetime, you'd get a free/subsidized use of it. Else you don't. You just have to wonder how much it costs to use.
Or on the other hand, let's assume it's practically free to use. Maybe they're keeping it on the space station to prevent overpopulation - too much would be bad for business back on Earth.
It's just too expensive for the riff-raff to go into space because of the energy costs - always has been, and ruling out some unforeseen breakthrough like fusion power (Too Cheap To Meter right?), always will be. The rich don't need to be sadists.
See also: Freedom Ship & similar. You can sail it to an area that still has a nice climate and it would be just as good as this fictional space station.
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More than you did. Do you only read the first 2 paragraphs, or are surface temperatures the only temperatures that matter to you?
They originally wanted the station to have a glass roof but then they got rid of it and decided that magic should hold the atmosphere in (maybe some kind of forcefield to be generous?).
Some of it would stay in due to artificial gravity, but the pressure would be low enough that it would be practically nonexistant. For artificial gravity alone to hold an earth-like atmosphere, containing walls with a height roughly equal to the depth of the earth's atmosphere would be needed.
You're thinking about it all wrong. All you need to do is invent a religion that makes space travel a sacred duty. For inspiration see the works of L. Ron Hubbard and the the second Riddick movie.
10 years plundering the cyber seas, drink hearty ye scurvy dogs!
If this were true they would have sent Seal Team Six after me instead of Bin Laden.
No! Never! There's always an IT skills shortage until every American in IT has been replaced with an H1B!
True. If it can replace other forms of fossil fuel that have no chance of causing sudden uncontrollable climate catastrophes (like super-filthy coal, ideally), it might be a good idea to burn it even if we're not too sure about the odds of a "methane bomb." No chance of methane bomb + energy that's the same or less dirty = win-win.
The "15-year pause" in global warming is bunk:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/recent-pause-in-warming
Humans don't have limited liability protection, can go to jail, can't transfer their lives to another under a different name, can't claim income through a different tax jurisdiction, and aren't immortal.
That's how I read it the first time. He meant Russia's lack of progress?
So I guess things aren't looking good for the mens' figure skating competition?
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Good post/sig combo XD
We've invented guns and yet the real world is not a game of Grand Theft Auto.
We've invented nukes and yet the whole planet hasn't been glassed.
Aren't we mature enough to choose when it's appropriate to use these technologies?
That strawman collapsed under the amount of weight you tried to put on him.
The Elite-like approach isn't terrible. Once rotations are close to perfectly sync'ed it's no different than something like a cargo module docking with the ISS. You correct a little roll here and there until you're matched up.
For #2, you could have a hub "station" that slows to a "stop" (as in rotating with the station) and then engages an airlock, so vacuum can be allowed between the two. Or if you have to let some air leak out, it might not be that much. There are seals facing vastly harsher conditions in everyday car engines, although at a much smaller scale.
I was wondering what kind of single-atom-thick super-shielding they were talking about :-P
Yeah I liked it better than the Pacific Rim score that got so much pre-movie hype.
Maemo's messaging app stores passwords in a plaintext file, some users found it and wanted it obfuscated to at least make them non-trivial to retrieve. The Maemo devs argued that obfuscation would be better at lulling users into a false sense of security about what is stored than thwarting those who want to access it maliciously.
I've spoken to people who think that the "just world fallacy" is bunk, and that there may be an "unjust world fallacy" O_O
I...didn't know what to say to that.
What if they can't though? What if they could never work enough to pay it back?
I think the economics of it would work out to: If the use of the machine is worth less than what you can produce for the rest of your projected lifetime, you'd get a free/subsidized use of it. Else you don't. You just have to wonder how much it costs to use.
Or on the other hand, let's assume it's practically free to use. Maybe they're keeping it on the space station to prevent overpopulation - too much would be bad for business back on Earth.
Oblivion was surprisingly good...haven't seen any of the others yet, but After Earth? The buzz is that it's a real stinker.
It's just too expensive for the riff-raff to go into space because of the energy costs - always has been, and ruling out some unforeseen breakthrough like fusion power (Too Cheap To Meter right?), always will be. The rich don't need to be sadists.
Or, as I've said before in this thread...see: the Freedom Ship project.
See also: Freedom Ship & similar. You can sail it to an area that still has a nice climate and it would be just as good as this fictional space station.
If there's enough extra resources for it, the question becomes why not?