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[Proginoskes]

Both terrifying and awesome, naturally. They'll probably uplift with a sapient hive-mind, like (if I'm recalling her details correctly) Dee.

[LynnInDenver]

Shuttle Pr0n.

http://news.nationalgeogr...0-tour-panorama-science/
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

[M Fnord]

James Cameron, Peter Diamandis to claim jump on Rockhounds turf.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

[HRogge]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/...j3XeYl1qmqg8ko1_1280.jpg

[Warringer]

http://www.crunchyroll.co...lkyrie-unveiled-in-tokyo

[ECSNorway]

Yarrr! It's buried PILOT treasure!

http://www.foxnews.com/sc...spitfires-to-be-exhumed/
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[HRogge]

http://plus.google.com/p...9953/5737087347951034434

[ECSNorway]

http://www.rr.com/news/to...tanic_II_to_sail_in_2016
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[HRogge]

[Bob Schroeck]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/ ... p=obinsite]Sunlike Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[robkelk]

Why are all %[link=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120502.html]the good APOD images] ones we can't use for one reason or another?

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A discussion on http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=91235]what to wear in space.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[M Fnord]

Why are all the good APOD images ones we can't use for one reason or another?

Holy shit, it's Planet Breckenridge!

(No really, any native son of Colorado would take one look at those marks and say "ski resort!")
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

[HRogge]

von Neumann probes, Dyson spheres, exploratory engineering and the Fermi paradox

http://www.youtube.com/w...r_embedded&v=zQTfuI-9jIo

reminds me to some scary ideas that I had for "what if" scenarios with CI

[Warringer]

Interesting idea for the food problem in Fenspace.

http://www.conceptualdevi...r-fuller-2012-challenge/

[HRogge]

Interesting idea for the food problem in Fenspace.

http://www.conceptualdevices.com/2012/0 ... challenge/

Thats definitely something that was missing in Fenspace!

[robkelk]

That would handle basic sustenance, but I believe there are some important food groups missing from their plant mix. I don't see any easy way of adding more fruits to the selection.

So it'll help, but won't be perfect...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Black Aeronaut]

I can see places like Grover's Corners and 36 Atalante employing this on a very large scale. Especially with big rocks like Atalante... you can pock-mark the surface with 1km diameter farm domes and have year-round harvests. I wonder how much food that would be...

Area of a 1km circle is roughly 785m^2... I'm going to estimate that each of these globes is about 6m in diameter, so that would put each one at about 28m^2... Surprise, surprise, 28 goes into 785 slightly more than 28 times... Going strictly by the system used in The Globe (which supposedly yields 400kg in vegetables and 100kg in fish per year) that would be a whopping fourteen metric tons of food per year! From a 1km diameter dome!

Now imagine if 36 Atalante (or some other suitably large enough asteroid) had 20 such domes... 280 metric tons per year.

Okay, so this sounds great, but is it really? Let's find out. I had to futz around a bit with this one, because the only solid figures I had was the annual weight of food an American consumes, daily calorie intake of an American, and the average worldwide daily calorie intake per person. Based on that, I figure that the average person needs about .75 metric tons per year for a healthy diet.

Thus, with 20 of these farm domes, 36 Atalante can be self-supporting for up to 210 people.

Personally, I think we can get more out of it, but I have no idea how to get that figure. Also, pretty sure that using large-scale domes we can also do orchards and stuff like that.

[HRogge]

That would handle basic sustenance, but I believe there are some important food groups missing from their plant mix. I don't see any easy way of adding more fruits to the selection.

So it'll help, but won't be perfect...

With a little bit modification, it could serve the basic needs of small settlements. It wouldn't be as varied as the things you can buy in Fenspace, but it could sustain them if necessary.

(edit)
This for example, citrus bonsai trees. *G*
http://www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product23.html

[Norgarth]

I believe tomatos are a source of Vitamin C as well.
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[robkelk]

Bio-Globes now have their own thread.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Dartz]

Sci-fi thread on /tg/. Usually a good source of inspiration, though they disappear within a day or two usually.
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[robkelk]

Source files for the Fivers.

No guarantee that it'll be around for very long. To download the whole thing, click on "Stuff" on the left side of the page, then on "Downloads" on the left side of the page, then on "05" at the top of the page, then on the big button.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Dartz]

Buld The Enterprise
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[robkelk]

The problem with the Whole Fenspace Catalog having every movie from many realities is that the collection includes these... gems?

(And I don't know which one is worse - "Neon Genesis Evangelion: Live Action Fanservice Edition" or "Nicolas Cage's On a Pale Horse"... but somebody in Fenspace will have watched at least the first five minutes of each of these.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Build The Enterprise

The site's returning nothing but 503 errors for me.  Since 503 is, among other things, capacity problems, I suspect this has become a very popular site.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.