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Within the constraints of modern technology what is the most accurate design for how a walking city could work?
What you're describing isn't actually a walking city, it's an extremely large all-terrain capable RV. Such a thing isn't technically impossible, it's just not possible with what most people consider ...
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Within the constraints of modern technology what is the most accurate design for how a walking city could work?
Don't Walk. Float:
The simplest solution is to only build real cities on high ground. You can certainly have large flood walls, but these locations will hold heavy industry and the like. That doesn't ...
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Land reclamation on a world with extreme tides
Caissons are pretty much your only option for building any infrastructure in the intertidal zone on a world that experiences tides on this scale, and they'd need to be huge. But you don't need to ...
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Land reclamation on a world with extreme tides
Think of estuaries, such as the River Severn in the UK. That has 15m tides and ports such as Bristol. People settle and build ports just beyond the highest tide. They will probably do the same on your ...
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Land reclamation on a world with extreme tides
Inland or partly enclosed bodies of water
Part of why tides are so high is because there's a huge volume of water available to move; as you probably know, your average pond or river doesn't experience ...
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How would you get a ship out of a gravity well?
Land on the moon
There are a bunch of reasons why you shouldn't land your ship at all. Most of them are not relevant on the moon.
Low gravity, but some. No atmosphere. If you have a shipyard on the ...
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How would you get a ship out of a gravity well?
This is a non-issue born of a bad assumption
...which would probably play hell with an atmosphere, should you try to use said engine in one...
When you take away any complications regarding ...
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How would you get a ship out of a gravity well?
How deeply can you throttle your LFD engines? And/or how quickly can you pulse them on and off? You don't necessarily need a different kind of drive, you just need a lower instantaneous power output ...
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