CombinatorialImplosion
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Commented on Social architecture and the house of tomorrow
A some of possibilities occur to me, it is possible that a room, or at least a cove for some form of advanced fab might become a standard part of the home, anything from a merely highly advanced, multi-material version...
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Commented on Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version)
And when are we going to see the movie version of Footfall? I. WANT. IT. NOW. Footfall, I don't have anything for you, but how about Ringworld? Courtesy of Jeff Bezos: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/09/amazon-making-ringworld-snow-crash-and-lazarus-one-tv-series.html (Oh and Snowcrash and Lazarus, which I...
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Commented on Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version)
Isp of existing ones (Xenon, I believe) are around 600-700, compared to the 380-450 of current leading chemical/cryogen rockets I think, perhaps, you might have conflated NTRs, which do tend to run in the high hundreds to perhaps 1,000sec...
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Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
Chesty Puller was a very famous US Marine General. Not especially a nice person. But in the mid-thirties, some industrialists in the US really didn't like what FDR was doing... and actually talked to him about a real, honest-to-Ghu...