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Well, one always has to consider the first manned expedition to the Sun and how they'll navigate. Telling time of day would be the first problem as it's always
by dredmorbius 2y ago
Well, one always has to consider the first manned expedition to the Sun and how they'll navigate.
Telling time of day would be the first problem as it's always high noon. And star sightings might prove challenging, at least at optical frequencies.
(Am now thinking of an SF story set on the Sun in which navigation and timekeeping play critical roles....)
- lukan 2y agoIn that SF story, I would be far more interested in the tech, that allows human life (or anything we bring) to withstand that slightly bigger problem called heat and radiation.
- dredmorbius 2y agoPshaw! Trifling details. (Focusing on the non-obvious problems might make for a more interesting and/or fantastical story.)
- lukan 2y agoAh, a energy force field it is then.
- WJW 2y agoOld reliable.
- dredmorbius 2y agoTurtles all the way down. Teenage, mutant, ninja, or otherwise.
- AbstractH24 2y agoHello darkness my old friend
- dredmorbius 2y agoWhich suggests the development of the Simon-Garfunkel Shield.
- wtetzner 2y agoAnd gravity.
- dredmorbius 2y agoI'm playing with slight variations of this prompt on GPTs: "Write a short (300--600 word) story about how human explorers on the Sun would address the challenges of navigation, orientation, and timekeeping (including the challenges of starfinding). Ignore obvious effects such as heat, gravity, and radiation." Results are ... not excellent literature, but amusing all the same.
- drbacon 2y ago> Telling time of day would be the first problem as it's always high noon. If the sun is always directly down from the surface, doesn't that make it solar midnight from anywhere on the surface?
- dredmorbius 2y agoA fair argument.