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Venus ISRU: Gas Phase Processes | Selenian Boondocks

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Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen. Venus ISRU: Condenseables [Updated]. Venus ISRU: ISRU Development Phases →. Venus ISRU: Gas Phase Processes. December 7, 2013. At this point in the process, the remaining constituents (assuming you’ve properly removed the previous-listed five condenseables) can be lumped into two categories:. Semi-reactive gasses like Carbon Dioxide, Carbonyl Sulfide, and Carbon Monoxide. Once you have the carbon monoxide rem...

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Centauri Sky: July 2011

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Stopping an Interstellar Freight Train. So you're travelling to Alpha Centauri at 10% the speed of light and the two stars are shining out of your viewscreen. Congratulations, you avoided life support failure, the crew going crazy, or the ship's computer going crazy and killing the crew in their hibernation pods. Now how do you stop? So aerobraking is a no-go. Our spacecraft would disappear in a Tunguska like explosion. So what now? A brief understanding of this concept is that the...

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Centauri Sky: Interstellar Flight: Hibernation

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Thursday, January 13, 2011. So let's say we've discovered a nice habitable planet around those nice, nearby sun-like and well-behaved stars, Alpha Centauri A or B. How are we going to get there? As it stands, there are three possible ways of getting there. Obviously it's going to take a long time. Short-term hibernation is possible through induced (or accidental) hypothermia. Unfortunately it's dangerous - Swedish radiologist Anna Bågenholm. Unfortunately, humans just aren't built for hibernation; this t...

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Centauri Sky: Generation Ships - Travelling Islands in Space

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Monday, February 9, 2015. Generation Ships - Travelling Islands in Space. After the rather ironic theme of hibernation and a subsequent 3 year absence, I thought I'd come back with the old SF staple, the generation ship. I'm not sure where the generation ship idea first came up but I do remember reading a novella by Robert Heinlein - Orphans of the Sky. Future spacecraft will probably resemble Farscape's Moya more than they do the USS Enterprise. Herein lies the problem - if we can survive in space, the ...

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Centauri Sky: February 2015

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Monday, February 9, 2015. Generation Ships - Travelling Islands in Space. After the rather ironic theme of hibernation and a subsequent 3 year absence, I thought I'd come back with the old SF staple, the generation ship. I'm not sure where the generation ship idea first came up but I do remember reading a novella by Robert Heinlein - Orphans of the Sky. Future spacecraft will probably resemble Farscape's Moya more than they do the USS Enterprise. Herein lies the problem - if we can survive in space, the ...

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Centauri Sky: Stopping an Interstellar Freight Train

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Stopping an Interstellar Freight Train. So you're travelling to Alpha Centauri at 10% the speed of light and the two stars are shining out of your viewscreen. Congratulations, you avoided life support failure, the crew going crazy, or the ship's computer going crazy and killing the crew in their hibernation pods. Now how do you stop? So aerobraking is a no-go. Our spacecraft would disappear in a Tunguska like explosion. So what now? A brief understanding of this concept is that the...

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Centauri Sky: November 2010

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Friday, November 5, 2010. DARPA and 100-Year Starships: Not so Fast. Credit: Adrian Mann, who does artwork for Project Icarus! The fact of the matter is, as the Tau Zero blog, Centauri Dreams. Unfortunately, there's not even a hint of anybody starting something up seriously. As the content of this (poorly maintained) blog attests to, I'm quite interested in interstellar travel and colonisation. I'd recently read Ark. Marc G. Millis. Of the Tau Zero Foundation. Has an interesting article on the arXiv prep...

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Centauri Sky: December 2009

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Friday, December 25, 2009. No Christmas Spirit in Japan. Much like it was a few hundred years ago when it was a fairly minor religious event. Wednesday, December 23, 2009. I had such an interesting post on the fate of the ISS and Japan's involvement, but it was consigned to digital oblivion when FireFox crashed! Ah, well, it last it wasn't Internet Explorer, otherwise I'd have viruses running rampant through my system too. Or, worse, Safari - about as water tight as a fishnet stocking. The ISS is also th...

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Centauri Sky: February 2010

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Monday, February 22, 2010. Some 15mm SF I'm Working On. I wonder if you asked them if they had heard of Napoleonics, what they would say.). Not sure what I'll do with them yet. I have painted up about 20 Crusties and 40 Old Crow so I could do a humans vs. aliens slugfest, but I'd also like to do some post-apocalyptic scenarios, getting friends to role play as themselves with the armed civvies. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). SC15HACK Team: “The Great Filter” Board Game. Life In The Milky Way.

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Centauri Sky: July 2010

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Friday, July 9, 2010. 1 point 3 BILLION internet users. International companies have this going through their heads whenever they think of China: 1.3 BILLION customers, probably in a Dr. Evil voice. Sure, you can use an internet cafe if you want. Yet China has some 384 million internet users. This doesn't mean that 384 million people have computers and an ISP. In fact, in 2008, "only" 32 million PCs were sold. 102 million computers were in use. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Life In The Milky Way.