numerarius5988am

numerarius5988am

Joined Member # 3723194
21 Posts 1,152 Replies 27,360 Reputation

[quote who="KerrdogJ" reply="31" id="3002770"] Wind resistance in space??? [/quote] In low Earth orbit there is still some measure of the atmosphere. Not very much, but enough for the ISS to need to boost orbit periodically. However, when a spacecraft reenters or enters the atmosphere, there certainly is wind. The Earth's thick atmosphere breaks up asteroids via the resistance of gaseous phase molecules, able to be calculated by: force = 0.5

53 Replies 164,517 Views

[quote who="Ryat" reply="15833" id="3002724"]Yes, yes they are.[/quote] Why? Why are they caricatures? I rather that humanity finally got around to becoming a spacefaring civilization rather than sitting around doing nothing for the next few centuries. We can go out into space and build, and use the resources out there to continue building yet more. I wish we'd finally get around to doing more than fiddling around in low Earth orbit with every station made so far on

25,734 Replies 3,530,476 Views

Now, what would be really cool is to have a toroidal station with solar panels covering the surface area of the ring. Lighting for plants could probably be using LEDs to reduce the wasting of electricity, and with the centrifugal acceleration replacing gravity astronauts wouldn't have so much difficulty health-wise. If the hull has proper radiation shielding, then such a station could be an indefinite habitat so long as it remains in good repair.

25,734 Replies 3,530,476 Views

[quote who="numerarius5988am" reply="15822" id="3002666"]I only want to conquer this universe anyway, with the exception of the Earth... they can keep their problems, but as for me I want to continually build space stations, habitats, ships, and continue to conquer the universe forever![/quote] Megalomania, for the win.

25,734 Replies 3,530,476 Views