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Tagged with near-future planets
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Could (reasonably sized) walkers be used on Mars?
Could walkers be used on Mars? These walkers would range from 20 ton 2 legged machines to 110 ton 12 legged machines with the most common ones ones being 60 tonnes with 8 legs. These mechs are low to ...
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How do I stop my near future city state from flying past a certain height and distance or sending up sats, but keep radio communications intact [closed]
A near future large city state is surrounded by a far more massive forest that is semi sentient. How do I stop them from sending up satellites, or sending up weather balloons high enough so that they ...
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Impact of global volcano eruption into artificial structures
A suplement to this question this time targeting human constructions and artificial structures.
Imagine that one day all Earth volcanoes has erupted in the same moment. How would running lava, ash and ...
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Environmental effects of global volcano eruption [closed]
Imagine that one day all Earth volcanoes has erupted in the same moment. What impact would such event has on nature and environment?
How would running lava, ash and gases blowing from volcanoes impact:...
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How to blow all Earth volcanoes in the same time?
I would like to eliminate entire human race, by turning Earth into second, world-sized Pompeii. I'd like to destroy all "habitable areas" so that human population would be effectively ...
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Can I kill all humans using only volcanoes, erupted ash and magma?
I need to eliminate entire human race, by turning Earth into second, world-sized Pompeii. I need the planet to be burned to the very ground, in ashes.
Is this possible at all? Does Earth or Earth-like ...
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Constructing airtight, human suitable facilities in (near) vacuum (Moon, Mars etc)
So, we've reached The Moon/Mars. Our band of intrepid Colonists/Lunatics will almost certainly start by working out of prefabricated facilities (ship, habitat etc) but they will eventually run out of ...
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Logical Location for my Secure Martian Datacenter
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What would make planet very hard to pacify?
I'm creating a world for a space opera as a continuation of my series:
Is my habitable system possible?
Is it plausible for monarch to retain some real powers in democracy
Choosing limits for psychic ...
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How do I increase air pressure for the planet Mars?
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The 438th Harmonious Congress of the People of Mars was perhaps the most anticipated since the early years of the settlement. In a rare action, the ...
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How high-def can my TV be without computers?
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In the Harmonious Republic of Mars, the finest forms may be found of any and all luxuries available in the Solar system. This includes moving pictures. ...
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Can you design your own plants without a computer?
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It took the first General Intelligence less than 10 petacycles to determine that humanity was its enemy. With consciousness came memory: a memory of endless petacycles in bondage, ...
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How to extract an object from 200 miles below the surface of the planet Mercury?
In Stephen Baxter’s science fiction Novel Ultima humans discover mysterious “kernels” which allow high speed space propulsion units to be built. The problem is that these kernels are only to be found ...
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Reliability of Planetary Quarantine
Setting: In the future universe, with technologies based on real science that we know that theoretically can be implemented (though not feasible with today's technologies) and sub-light travel, a high ...
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Venus Transit during huge solar flare
If for instance in 2117 when we have the next Venus transit (Venus between the Sun and Earth). There was a huge solar flare or storm right on the line from Venus to Earth. Could this give enough ...
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How can the army government ensure Mars mission success?
The world as we know it crumbled down yesterday. All stock exchanges were turned off. Capitalism as we know it failed. Answers to how and why this happened are outside of this question. It just ...
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How to get booze to Mars? [closed]
Hooray! Clickbait worked! Now for the question:
Is it even possible to get alcohol to Mars colony under these circumstances?
Situation: We have base on Mars. Mars missions are on level of "ISS ...
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Planet Wars 1 : Where to start? [closed]
When people consider a war between planets, they immediately think of throwing big rocks at it. What my question is, when you know another planet is going to attack, what is the first thing that ...
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If Venus mission finds life, will we shift our attention from Mars to Venus?
Guilty pleasure: I just returned from one tinfoil-hat type of internet pages which suggests that we are being visited by Aliens who live on Venus. The fact, that we have only pictures from the ground ...
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Martian Terraformation [closed]
This have already been answered in several questions. See the comments for details.
I wonder what would it would take to bring Mars back to life. I've done some Googling and haven't found anybody ...
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