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by m4rtink 1y ago
Yep, I know but still managed to typo it, sorry. :P
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Stanislaw Lew already looked into what to do if automation get so good that no one can actually buy the goods because they are out of work: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/10/12/phools Published
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Aniara is not a good example - the ship was supposed to do a regular interplanetary flight orogonally before ending up on unplanned interstellar trip to oblivion due to drive failure before they could break to their destination planet (+ so
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by m4rtink 1y ago
I liked how Earth just went "we will just send more ships, LOL". And the book portrais it like a bad thing. ;-)
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by m4rtink 1y ago
The whole oh-no-prions from hell was kinda unconvincing, as well as choosing to go back to Sol instead of just building up living space via artificial habitats in the target solar system. If you can refuel a fucking interstellar ark in fiel
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by m4rtink 1y ago
I guess Vatican could be ?
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Looks like it is x86 + Linux and C++: https://hackaday.com/2024/02/10/the-usage-of-embedded-linux-...
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by m4rtink 1y ago
You could build in some redundancy into the system, but indeed, it keeping to schedule would be a matter of life and endless travels in deep space.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Sure, but the speeds you can realistically reach on the surface of a planet for any lenght of time is also many orders of magnitude less than you can reach in space & you also don't really loose speed by friction. That at least par
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by m4rtink 1y ago
People from latin america might be a good match - last time the fleet of generation ships not only reached the destination in sufficient number, but one of them even ahead of schedule[0]! [0] https://revelationspace.fandom.com&#x
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Yep, it is always a good idea to have a flight crew[0] when most of the passengers are in hibernation. It might take them some time but they will always sort thing out in the end! :) [0] https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wi
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by m4rtink 1y ago
I think with highly enriched uranium you could definitely power a (set of spare) fishion reactors for that long during transit with reasonable mass budget.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Living on a ball of rock with no climate controll ? Are you insane ? Do what you want, I'll go back to building that new custom Stanford Torus we just got started last cycle. And don't call for help when it inevitably starts rain
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Why not both ?
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Yeah, no way space projects this size are built from materials lifted from earths gravity well. Like, you could probably do it as an achievement with launch loops[0] or an space elevator[1]. But it makes no sense if you have material ready
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by m4rtink 1y ago
This is definitely one way how to do it - but it should be possible to also get fast if you really want to[0][1] + likely also increase human lifespan/hibernate/immortal cyborgs. So there might be whole other class of interstellar
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Well wasn't that like the first real attempt on this & to a degree a non-optimal one at that ? Its not like sustainable extraterrestrial habitats will not be needed elsewhere anyway, so it should be hopefully long established techn
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Worked out well enough for the House of Habsburg. ;-)
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Solar sail might help slow it down at destination + possibly a close solar Oberth maneuver to capture in an orbit in the target system. Being a probe sized craft, deceleration as well as a very close flyby close to a star should be much mor
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by m4rtink 1y ago
You are on the right track - this is pretty much how the showers on Skylab & Mir worked: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1j1ijsw/... https://direct.mit.edu/thld&#x
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by m4rtink 1y ago
If its loosing mass for propulsion, it might need to slow down a lighter ship, taking less time ? Remember, a lighter ship can start slowing down later so it will arrive to its destination faster . This might be important if you are trav
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Um, did anyone actually believe that in practice ? Of course, if you asked them, they would say so, to 105 socialistic percent, comrade! Bur personal and in private, it was very different.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Not really possible for many mission profiles (e.g. if using target system star for braking or pre-programmed beamed propulsion) - so often that would not be an issue. ;-)
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by m4rtink 1y ago
So you just make it so they don't notice they are on an interstellar mission - sorry, to board the train to the capital you still need to fill in form XB1, but the officer who can fill it is on vacation (in the capital and the trains t
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by m4rtink 1y ago
This is how it works in the universe in the novel "Right of Return" by Janusz Zajdel - humanity has developed both safe hibernation as well as practical sub-light travel. Many colonies, research stations and logistic hubs have bee
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by m4rtink 1y ago
As with many topics, the Orions Arm Universe project has you covered - the Engenerator[0]! Originally developed in-universe when a bunch of immortal cyborgs got bored on a colonization ship & decided to instruct a precursor probe to pri
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Simulations still need to run on something & need energy to power them. The better, more stable, higher fidelity simulation you want, the more mass & energy it will need. And that needs to come from somewhere - a thing many infomorp
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Yep - it really makes sense to do it like that - I don't say planets are useless, but if you just arrived after possibly hundreds of years in deep space, you might as well par you ark somewhere safe and resource rich, do any repairs or
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by m4rtink 1y ago
IIRC there were sub-scale test done with chemical explosives. Also Feynman said it should work. :)
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Should be doable with beamed propulsion. Basically give each package a lightsail & you can have it maneuver when illuminated by laser arrays either in the home system or on the interstellar craft itself. The beauty of this setup is that

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