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>Permanent magnets that would be strong enough to be effective would be too heavy. Heavy to shove out to sea from shore, but not if you've got a dock! (Read: b
by shrimp_emoji 9y ago
>Permanent magnets that would be strong enough to be effective would be too heavy.
Heavy to shove out to sea from shore, but not if you've got a dock! (Read: build the craft already in space. And then have some mean engines.)
But this is all untenable; we need to become robots and cut out the malarkey.
- stcredzero 9y agoHeavy to shove out to sea from shore, but not if you've got a dock! So you're proposing something like Aldrin's cycler craft. Given our experience on Mir and the ISS, we are going to have to get a whole lot better at environmental engineering to be able to do that for human passengers. I've read that the inside of the ISS smells like some kind of porta potty. we need to become robots and cut out the malarkey. I hope we will still have "human fundamentalists." (To use Charles Stross' term)
- logfromblammo 9y agoElectromechanical robotics is but an intermediate step. I can't wait to be an engineered lichen, with self-repair systems lifted from Deinococcus radiodurans.
- perl4ever 9y agoI'm inclined to think that it's just too soon to go into space. It will truly become practical when biotech allows us to evolve into completely different forms that are more durable.
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