Stargate525

MORE SCIENCE MUST BE DONE THIS WAY! Not how this works. You're limited by both time and energy input, as well as speed of light issues. And 'fly to an asteroid, push it to collide with earth' at the miniscule thrust you'd get from a cubesat... We'd be dead of solar expansion by then, I wager.

Name one game which allows third party mods to be sold for cash. Doing that is a legalistic nightmare waiting to happen.

Well thank you Captain Obvious. xD I'm hoping it's a repository of grey goo nanites hanging around for someone to contact them.... Hey, I can dream!

Uranium mines are several hundred feet deep, and usually strip pit mines. Then you need to refine it; a process that requires very energy-hungry, very precise centrifuges. How are we doing that in space any time soon?

You just want her for yourself!

We're going to ANOTHER PLANET. If it costs as much as the ISS, that's fifteen days of US government expenditure. How is that too much?

Fredfred. With his husky pet dog, no doubt...

So we do it in three launches and dock together in LEO. It's not like we haven't done it before.

I get that. It happens on the midnight turnover; it's 1am Tuesday in Chicago and 11pm Monday in Seattle. But in this situation, somehow we've created a situation where it is 1pm Tuesday in New York, and noon MONDAY in Chicago. HOW?

Right, but that doesn't solve the crux of the problem; that somehow in this situation there is a person who is on one time zone, and an hour to the west of them they are not 1 hour behind, but 24.

Or: This is why I can't be alone at night with my thoughts. So this is the layout. A man in a plane is flying west at speed precisely able to keep him at local noontime. Every hour, he radios down below him and asks for the time and the day. He starts on Wednesday. As he progresses, he will eventually have to swap to Thursday like the rest of the world. But to do that, he's going to have to go from one person telling him he's noon on Wednesday to telling him he's noon on Thursday. How can a single timezone jump be twenty-four hours apart? Am I missing something obvious here?

You'll need one for staging, to be sure. If there are any in a d-pad formation, you might want to assign those to move the camera.

There are some biologists which have discovered bacteria living in some lakebeds which breathe metal, and another which can survive on the head of an electrode without any additional energy input. So... Go there and see if something moves?

After this, I'm not entirely certain what's left to think about.

It'll suck for a few years, but Methane breaks down really quickly in atmosphere.

*sigh* Yes, the entire planet as a whole is self-sufficient. But any smaller part of it is not. 18th century colonies required manufactured goods, and shipped raw resources back in trade. We're still doing it. We import oil, export finished goods. Lumber out, furniture in. If you want to look at economics, that's what you do. Is there stuff on Jupiter/Saturn/Venus that Earth could use? Abso-frikkin-lutely. Hydrogen, which we'll need for fusion and rocket propellant. Helium, which is vanishingly rare on Earth and critical for supercooling. Methane, which is a semi-viable replacement for fossil fuels. Noble gasses, traces of nitrates... All sorts of stuff you can siphon from the air, bottle, and ship out. And I brought up Mars because that's what most of our life-support tech is being bent towards for long-term habitation. That's a much harsher environment than what the OP is proposing, which in a few cases could be survivable with a breathing mask and hazmat suit. It's doable.

Nothing is self-sufficient. The life support problems are being solved already for potential Mars missions and bases. Like most colonies, it will probably need regular deliveries of manufactured goods and tech. All it needs to produce in situ is oxygen and water. Doable on Jupiter and Saturn, and much easier on Uranus and Neptune.

I'm not sure which is scarier; the device itself, or that it arrives in a CLOUD OF ITS OWN SMOKE.

http://www.app.com/story/life/home-garden/luxury/2015/01/19/woman-pays-per-year-live-luxury-cruise-ship/21869211/ http://www.seasteading.org/floating-city-project/ http://freedomship.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houseboat It's being done small-scale, and the only reason we aren't doing it in large-scale yet is because we haven't filled the landmass to capacity yet.

This is apparently an unpopular opinion, but I see early access as less of a producer/consumer relationship as it is a company/investor relationship. You are investing money which is, nominally, going straight into the development of the game. Without your investment this game does not exist (kickstarters are a prime example of this). Instead of shares your dividend is a copy of the final product, perhaps some backer bonuses, and [implicitly] your beta feedback on the game as it develops. But there are no case examples for the rights of backers, nothing put into most of the agreements, and a heavy reliance on both consumer naivete and the letter of the standard EULAs. The result of that is that, for a hit to their reputation that may or may not stick with them, game companies have stumbled upon a way to print money with no strings attached. Unless the market corrects itself against these sorts of practices, I fear that the end of the early access phenomenon will be a class action lawsuit against a larger company that trotted out the 'we never ACTUALLY promised this' line once too often.

This is their modus operandi, though: -Multiplayer, announced on Friday -This, announced on Friday -Expansions potential, announced on Friday They don't learn, and they don't listen.

That people believe that is true is more damning to the devs than anything I can say. The only one that's not is possibly #8, as that's a problem with Unity. Everything else has been done by at LEAST one mod. Modders should not have better mastery of a product than the actual developers.

As a patient of reconstructive ankle surgery, I can attest that hospitals actually do this.

The problem with a single connected internet between planets is bandwidth. The only reason we have such good speeds between continents are the massive cables draped across the seabed carrying terabytes of data every minute. Getting that with a satellite connection would be unreasonably difficult. Plus, you'd need to differentiate between pages being fetched from a planetside server (which will load in seconds) and one from another planet (go get a cup of coffee or take that lunch break), if only for user convenience. Pages, like these forums, would probably have to be downloaded in bulk, else you have a 15-30 minute wait between every page load. Searches would have to be predictive; run a google search, and you'll probably want the first dozen or so results immediately available as well. If you have a cached page local, how often does it ping the home planet for an updated version? Do we suddenly have two versions of web pages? One which is pinged regularly for updates used for forums and updating content, and another for articles and slower media, which pushes their updates whenever they occur? How do we handle bandwidth? For e-mails and downloads, do we send them uncompressed, or sacrifice some more time to squeeze better efficiency from the satellite connection?