Andrew Wade
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Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
You could deploy a large umbrella made of lightweight plastic film, coated with gold on the inside and carbon black on the outside, and hide the spaceship behind that. As long as you knew which half of the sky the...
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Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
We can't detect spaceships by looking for their infrared emissions against the 2.7 kelvin cosmic background temperature One possible countermeasure would be to dump the waste heat in a fairly narrow beam, at the cost of a more energy-intensive cooling...