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Who else is watchng The expanse?
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I've been looking a my long sub list on YT, and I just realized, several great, but small channels look like they were deleted
And several more have been inactive for months (At least one is still updating, and definitely planning on returning).
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I may or may not be procrastinating by detailing solar systems in TCBW and Infinitum instead of writing.
BUTT I do have some more inspiration on the climaxes, plot twists, etc.
Also, reading back on what I have on TCBW so far.... I have a lotta rewriting to do
But I think I can make the following chapters better.
Does no one have any input on my previous update? Can someone at least tell me elements of it is plausible? It is sci-fi after all.
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So... Question for people who know this much better than me (I just need to know semi-possible it is, this is for a sci-fi novel, but if it's unrealistic on the scale of having Napoleon nuking India and calling it historical fiction than tell me, and I won't put it on paper
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So, here's a thought I had last night after reading part of Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Conversation laws of physics are local in nature, so you can't have 100 kg disappear on one end of a Wormhole, and have 100 kg appear on the other end. So the Wormhole you entered just gained 100 kg, and the one you exited just lost 100 kg, and the person who raised this issue, Matt Visser asked, what happens when one end loses so much mass, it becomes negative?
Here's what I thought of, it becomes unstable, and collapses in on itself, becoming a black hole, releasing a huge amount of energy, and sterilizing the system. And the second wormhole (Because it's connected to the other end) gets pulled into hyperspace, colliding into the newly formed black hole, causing it to release a huge amount of energy (Again) and creating a quasar.
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OH MY GOD
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My idea for a Wormhole network that will be described in more detail in Infinitum;
Wormhole hubs are basically giant stations in close orbit around their parent stars (If around the sun for example, between Mercury and Venus for excellent solar energy, but not too close to a large gravity well), it would essentially be the intragalactic equivalency of an international airport, you would come out of the Wormhole, dock to the station, refuel, and go through 'customs' before going on your way through a solar system.
Here's what you can imagine it'll look like (It'll be described in much more detail in the book): You have a massive flat torus ring, say about the size of the Moon, and several hundred klicks across which is a basically a giant solar panel. Then just within that, is a gravity ring running along the inner edge of the solar torus that's inhabited by station workers, and Aliens leaving and entering the system. And within that, is a bunch of Wormhole gates that connect, say, a dozen different systems, almost like a spider web.
I'll be going into more detail where Wormhole gates are prioritized (Btw, hyperspace travel is also a thing, but it's slower than Wormhole travel), like around home systems and stuff like that.
What do you guys think?
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So I've been thinking about Alien (Or human, I'm not racist) space based structures as 'levels' (This is related to Infinitum btw)
Level 1, (I dunno what else to call it) Structures: Structures in space on the order of less than a klick to dozens of kilometers. Example, generation ships, O'neil colonies, etc.
Level 2, Superstructures: Structures in space on the order of hundreds to tens of thousands of kilometers. Example (imo) Dyson swarms (My opinion, since they're basically a crapload of O'neil colonies w/ a lotta solar panels in lots of orbits), etc
Level 3, Megastructures: Structures in space on the order of hundreds of thousands if not billions of kilometers. Example, Dyson spheres, ringworlds, etc.
Level 4, Superpower Ninja Turbo Neo Ultra hyper mega multi alpha meta extra uber prefix STRUCTURE (Get it?): Anything that can span light years really, I can't think of anything though.
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The next Star Wars movie will be called 'The Last Jedi'
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Star Wars CDVI: Error: 404 Good Name Not Found.
Star Wars M: We ran out of good names after XXVI.
Star Wars W: W means 1,000,000,000,000,000. We had to make that up. Also, the sun exploded a few billion years ago and we're still making movies.
Star Wars Q: The end of Star Wars.
Star Wars QI: the last few hundred people in the universe are going to get stuck in a black hole. We are sending out these probes hoping that someone finds one.
A few billion years later in the Kraken spiral arm of the Andromeda Galaxy...
Jeb: Hey look! A probe full of movies!
Bill: The War Stars IV movie was actually good! The others weren't.
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IV was so bad... had bad physics to boot. Death Star II could not have been tidally locked on Endor's forest moon as the movie tries to claim. Even if it had a normal orbit, it would have been shredded by the gravitational tug between the moon and the planet...
Not to mention that, but when the Death Star II exploded, it would have destroyed the surface of that same moon because of the sheer amount of debris and the explosive force of the reactor destruction...
Then there's the whole thing of the Emperor...and his clone... that was supposedly "book canon" yet discarded in the movie... among other problems. There would have been a new grand moff - appointed after the death of Tarkin, who presided over the governors under the Galactic Empire. Even if Vader did kill the Emperor, the Grand Moff would have become the next emperor and still in charge of a huge imperial fleet...
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As I write my novels, would you guys like to see a snip from them before they're finished?
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Has this been explored in Sci-Fi yet? I dunno.
Using a Wormhole to terraform planets!
I'm pretty sure you know where I'm going with this, but if you don't, here's a (Basic) example;
Let's take Mars and Venus for instance. For Mars, you build several multi-kilometer gates, and put them on the surface, then you do the same to Venus, except you fly them around the Atmosphere to collect it (If we have Wormhole gates, we probably have some fancy new jet engine, like thermal fusion or something.), it should work, because air will be forced to go through the gate on Venus, and then expel itself on Mars. And because it's at a much higher pressure than Mars, Mars will lose a laughable amount of air, and will be ridiculously replenished by Venus'.
So... How well could this theoretically work?
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Not possible. Even Einstein predicted that wormholes might be unstable. You're describing using them as a conduit to transport matter that's in the form of a gas. Gas needs pressure exerted on it. Think of a spray can - you have the product AND an amount of propellant gas to force the product out of the can. The can itself creates a high pressure environment and as soon as you press the nozzle button, it creates an escape conduit from a high pressure area to a low pressure one (outside the can is considered low pressure). You'd have to create the same thing on Venus - with a propellant.
If you are serious about terraforming Mars, you'd be best off to mine the carbon dioxide ice out of the polar caps and reintroduce it to the atmosphere. But even then, it would be a crap-shoot since Mars has been leaking atmosphere for the last few million years. You'd have to find a way to increase the planet's rotation to even create a scenario to where the gasses would be held in its atmosphere by gravity (even the Earth has some atmospheric dissipation into space). The other thing to do would be to increase the mass of Mars, which actually theoretically could be done, if you were to harvest ice comets and send them down to refill Mars' oceans - after all, it is science fiction, right?
With Mars as it is now, at best, you would have to be continually replenishing its atmosphere.
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@adsii1970 I second this ^ Though in my opinion a great way to terraform Mars would be to take a small ice Moon from the outer solar system, Cut it into small asteroid size chunks, Then send them hurling into Mars on an atmosphere grazing trajectory so they would evaporate mid-aerobrake and thus thicken the atmosphere without damaging the surface. Also. If we're talking far future, Then it could be possible to drill a hole all the way to Mars' core and insert a small chunk of Neutron Star in there, A mountain sized chunk of Neutronium might be enough to significantly increase the planet's gravity.
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@daniel l.: The major problem with what you propose (the whole drill to the core and insert neutron star piece) is the technology to drill that far into a planet would be finding a way for the drill bit to survive the high-iron content rock, the pressures (the further you drill underground, the greater pressure is exerted on the hardware), and that's just the drilling aspect! Most astronomers and exo-geologists are unsure what lies under Mars' crust - they are not even sure if Mars still has a remnant molten core - and if it did, drilling into it could literally collapse the planet.
Then there's the aspect of the part of the neutron star - there are none in our stellar neighborhood. The second problem is even if it were, what would be the impact of having a Mars with that much mass - even a golf-ball sized particle could make Mars so heavy and have such a deep gravity well that not only would it lose at least one of its moons, it could possibly disrupt the Asteroid Belt... Remember, Mars is closer to the Asteroid Belt than Jupiter. Right now, Jupiter is what keeps it in check...
Another problem is with that much mass, how would you ever be able to handle it? How would you get it to the surface of Mars and to the exact coordinates of your bore hole to the core? The heavier the mass, the more hard it is to align it to a precise target (a bore hole would be no bigger than about 15 to 20 cm, using standard drilling technology AND the size of the hole needed for a golf-ball size fragment).
The most practical and realistic approach would be to harvest water-ice comets and let them impact the surface, preferably in one of the old ocean basins. We already know those former ocean basins and their depths, so if you nudge the comets into impact into those areas - they should not cause any real harm to potential habitation zones in higher elevations. The difference is not only mass, but it doesn't require as precise of a landing zone. Consider having a target zone of 7 to 60 Km versus 20 cm - it simply makes more sense.
Fragmentation of the comet wouldn't be necessary. Up to 1/4th of the mass would probably burn up during reentry, adding water vapor to the atmosphere as it reenters...
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From Chapter 2 of Infinitum;
Morales eased the ship sideways as it came in the station. It was one of the greatest construction projects in human history. Almost 200 years ago, engineers crafted a massive engine on Phobos in order to push it to a higher orbit for use as a space elevator. When they didn’t need the engine anymore, it was repurposed as a dock for crafts entering and leaving the port. Since then, there have been so many construction projects on Phobos that it’s unrecognizable as an asteroid.
“Man, we could stay here for a little while, right?” Asked Morales as he craned his neck to get a better view of the city at the base of the elevator. It was the largest city on Mars with a population of over a billion, spread out like strands of a spider's web across the surface, some parts stretching beyond the terminator, and into the night.
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Kyle Hill liked a tweet I gave him, so we may get a hyperspace drive video!
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I'm using (Free version) Grammarly to help make my writing more grammatically correct, what are your experiences with it if you've used it? Is it a decent program?
And if you've used the paid version, what are advanced issues anyway? Should I pay attention to them?
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I've used it, for school. I wasn't too impressed by it, and I wouldn't get the paid version. I can remember distinctly an argument in a group project about who was right; me or Grammarly. The other student insisted that she was correct because "Grammarly agrees with me!" Turns out that she was wrong, and Grammarly was, too.
You'd do better to learn the grammatical rules yourself. Not in, say, English class, but by going out and reading a well-written book in a subject you enjoy. For me, it was history, but it can really be anything.
To sum up: Grammarly's OK, but it's nothing to write home about. You can get the same thing by finishing papers early and asking teachers to proof them.
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I JUST GOT THE FIRST 3 BOOKS IN THE EXPANSE.
Sorry for allcaps, I'm just so happy they finally came!
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Here's the basic plot of Infinitum; subject to change slightly as it's developed.
Almost 300 years from now, the crew of the Infinitum travels through a Wormhole to create a new life for themselves but find themselves in the middle of an Interstellar conflict between three powerful Alien civilizations trying to lead a galactic alliance in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
It's still an early WIP, but would any of you guys like to see it? I can put a preview here, and if you guys like it, I'll make a thread for it.
Also, it'll likely be ridiculously long, I'm planning for it to be at least 130k words, although I may push 200k (And yes, I know, a 70k word difference is big, I'm fully aware of that
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Same for me @legoclone09, but its a huge landmass AND a huge ocean away. I hate the sea climate were i live in.
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I'm starting some of these courses, hopefully it'll make my novels better
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Sci-Fi novel idea based of of an idea I had.
Now, as far as we know, wormholes can't be created naturally, and if they can, they're probably too small too detect/use, so my idea is if you build a wormhole gate without an exit, and, y'know, enter it, you'll pop out of a pre-existing wormhole instead of a naturally existing one that expands, or a white hole (If it's like a wormhole exit of course).
So that's going to be the abstract outline for a Sci-Fi novel set 100 years from now, where humanity builds a wormhole gate (Without an exit, still need to figure out an idea on why they enter without one, maybe space pirates, I dunno), and enters it out of curiosity, only to pop out in the Large Magellanic Cloud, at the presence of an Alien civilization, (Still debating on whether or not the Aliens has problems with another civ). Also need to work on some BS physics for it to make sense but I'll try to make it as accurate as possible, but you guys get the idea, right?
What do you think?
As for my WIP novels, they're on hold for now, sorry.
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@electricpants I've finished 6 chapters, they just need to be edited, but I can't write more until I get a new laptop, or can borrow one for a long time.
@Matuchkin Okay.
@RandomGuy1824 I'll do my best, but I will not use Kerbals, sorry.
@LetsGoToMars! I'll change it, it's still only an idea.
@adsii1970 I'll try not to.
I've thought more about it last night, and I'm really liking the idea, I won't be writing it for awhile however, but what names do you have? I may use one of them, or it'll give me an idea.
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Actually, I've been thinking a lot about it, and I might start writing soon, and by soon, I have no idea, before the summer I guess? But I have some of the characters visualized to a degree and the first couple chapters somewhat imagined.
Also, go to the lounge for an update for 'The Void' sorry in advance.
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How have you guys been?
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@NSEP That's very true. I'm sure all of the states I've been to would probably equal an area about the same size as Western Europe, or more. I've been to Illinois, Michigan, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Just Looking at a globe, those states probably sum up to be the same size as Western Europe.
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I've been thinking more about one of my future books since I can't write much at the moment (No laptop all the time
) and I think 'The Voyage through time' will be a dark, dystopian sci-fi novel, possibly a thriller, and likely 2-3 parts.
Update for TCBW: I've been thinking about the future books, and it'll probably be 3 parts, not 4.
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My laptop finally gave out, I'm using someone else's computer now, I don't know when I'll get a new one.
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I'm using a very new laptop to write this.
I could have gotten a better desktop for the same price, but it's important to me that I can take this to my college classes, and play games on it.In the end, make sure you decide what the most important features are, then find the best computer that meets those specs.
And several more have been inactive for months (At least one is still updating, and definitely planning on returning).
But I think I can make the following chapters better.
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