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| qwertyman |
 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: Ringworld |
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setting aside costs, resourses and current technology, would it be possible to create a ringworld?
or even (i forget the proper name) a sphere-world.
(a sphere with people living on the outside and a star on the inside, with solar panneling on the inside so as to have a near infinite power supply
I am talking about the Ringworld from Larry nivens novel Ringworld rather than the rip-offs such as Halo.
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| Bunbury |
| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| The fundamental question would be: do the laws of physics allow the manufacture of a material with the supposed tensile strength of scrith, equal to the strong nuclear force? |
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| DivideByZero |
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| Bunbury wrote: |
| The fundamental question would be: do the laws of physics allow the manufacture of a material with the supposed tensile strength of scrith, equal to the strong nuclear force? |
..so whats the fundamental answer? |
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| Bunbury |
| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| CircularlyPolarized |
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Gee, that's Science's answer for everything.
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| Ophiolite |
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| CircularlyPolarized wrote: |
| Gee, that's Science's answer for everything. |
Excellent. Now you understand the fundamentals you can begin to take in the more advanced stuff.
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| CircularlyPolarized |
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The "more advanced stuff" being that everything's the fundamental of something even more advanced. Yes, I've read chemistry 
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| Scifor Refugee |
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| I don't think there's any known fundamental reason why we couldn't do it. But we also don't have any idea whatsoever how to do it. |
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| Jacie |
| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Assuming the material existed, I envision it being constructed in arc-shaped pieces, each set in the same orbit about the primary but an orbit that is greater than the one that the finished ring will occupy. All of the completed pieces are then given a push inward so that they simultaneously come together to form the ring. |
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| Scifor Refugee |
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| Jacie wrote: |
| Assuming the material existed, I envision it being constructed in arc-shaped pieces, each set in the same orbit about the primary but an orbit that is greater than the one that the finished ring will occupy. All of the completed pieces are then given a push inward so that they simultaneously come together to form the ring. |
I would think that an easier way to do it would be to start with a single piece, then build outward from the edges. Of course there's no telling what sorts of construction techniques would be used to make the thing, but it seems likely that it would be easier to build outward from an established surface than to start "from scratch" many times at different points in space. |
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| KALSTER |
| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Maybe in 100 years you can download the blueprint for your ideal "hab" and have your personal nano-factory build it for you 
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