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Hooboy, whatathread. I have so many questions about science!  (Especially since they seem like they'll have reasonable answers!)I guess I'll leave them for later, when hoobaby's in preschool and Dr. Olo's a gainfully unemployed postgrad and this thread gets active again. Still, non-equatorial space elevator makes me go what. Colony site investigation should've been constrained to near the equator.
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Vavrek posted:Hooboy, whatathread. Non-equatorial space elevator seems like it would end up flailing madly like the donge from meatspin. That's my hot take.
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I'm not a physicist but I'm pretty sure you could make a non-equatorial space elevator as long as your cable was extra bendy and strong at the same time. Bendier and stronger than you'd already need for a normal space elevator, but theoretically doable - it would kinda bend towards the equator as it went out for the first bit until it got to the point where all the various forces mostly balance out and then it would start extending straight out into space parallel to the equator, but probably a few degrees above? It would make matching orbit and docking with the space end annoying, but if you've got the technology to be building this I don't think you worry too much about minor orbital maneuvering. I dunno I'm sure someone smart has done more thinking about it but that's my "10 minutes and sketches on a notepad" take. Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Jan 15, 2018 |
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the thing that fucks me up is a Russian came up with the idea in 1895 iirc you can have them be nonequatorial without huge problems, if you do some extra bullshit thing, but I don't actually remember what and have no sources
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Oh, it was given a decent enough explanation in the posts that brought it up, about the consequences of mounting the base at nonzero latitudes, what sort of extra forces would be on the base, etc. It's just surprising to me that this is a surmountable difficulty at all, and that somehow we brought a space elevator with us rather than grabbing an appropriate asteroid and manufacturing one on site. Space elevators are big! Like, REALLY BIG.
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Maybe they just repurposed carbon from the ship hull by using a machine to break it down into carbon tubes for the elevator?
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Non-equatorial space elevator seems like it would end up flailing madly like the donge from meatspin. I love that I"m not the only one who still references that thing once in a while.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:08
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Slaan posted:Maybe they just repurposed carbon from the ship hull by using a machine to break it down into carbon tubes for the elevator? I'd have thought repurposing the carbon from excess crewmembers would be more your jam.
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Jan 16, 2018 02:19
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Yes, but for jam, not for elevator cables.
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Jan 16, 2018 03:41
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Vavrek posted:Yes, but for jam, not for elevator cables. Stop hacking my systems for copy pasting:(
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Slaan posted:Stop hacking my systems for copy pasting:( Not while you poke my gushing spring point, SIR.
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Olothreutes come back, it's getting weird in here.
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Space madness
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The dedication to keeping this thread alive is astounding. (Yes, I've caught up, just in time to blindly hit refresh hoping for an update one day)
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CourValant posted:The dedication to keeping this thread alive is astounding. The kid will have to go off to school eventually
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There Bias Two posted:The kid will have to go off to school eventually Isn't that when 'sexy time' happens for Mom and Dad though?
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Jan 19, 2018 01:16
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Olo can multitask.
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vorebane posted:Olo can multitask. Or at least to a vlog. 
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Or at least to a vlog. 
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You spin my space elevator 'round, baby, right 'round. In near-orbit, baby, 'round 'round.
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Jan 19, 2018 19:53
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Cannon_Fodder posted:You spin my space elevator 'round, baby, right 'round. I support the idea of Olo doing Hooboy-themed 80s songs as vlogs.
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Cannon_Fodder posted:You spin my space elevator 'round, baby, right 'round. Is that the increased radiation stripping your first few layers of skin, or, are you just happy to see me? Hexenritter posted:I support the idea of Olo doing Hooboy-themed 80s songs as vlogs. With Go-Go dancers!!
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CourValant posted:Is that the increased radiation stripping your first few layers of skin, or, are you just happy to see me? Parachute pants optional.  I just killed it, didn't I?
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I realized that I've started regularly using "hooboy" as an exclamation in normal conversation and I'd just like you all to know I will never forgive you for forcing this curse upon me.
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Feb 13, 2018 04:20
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Olo, don't worry about restarting this, the prank worked.
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Feb 13, 2018 06:34
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Mission Accomplished, Goldmine Thread
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Crazycryodude posted:I realized that I've started regularly using "hooboy" as an exclamation in normal conversation and I'd just like you all to know I will never forgive you for forcing this curse upon me. Hooboy, what a mind gently caress. Also my autocorrect has learnt and now capitalizes Hooboy. Good work olo.
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vorebane posted:Olo, don't worry about restarting this, the prank worked. There Bias Two posted:Mission Accomplished, Goldmine Thread Nooooo! Come back Olo!!!
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How many Stellaris players have we got in this thread? I'm guessing it's at least a few. I've been thinking about figuring out the modding system and making the Whataplanet system and Hoomans as a custom start option. It's a pretty cool looking system.
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Vavrek posted:How many Stellaris players have we got in this thread? I'm guessing it's at least a few. I've been thinking about figuring out the modding system and making the Whataplanet system and Hoomans as a custom start option. It's a pretty cool looking system. Hooboywhatamod
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You guys got me all excited  Only thing for it is to make the problem worse!
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Vavrek posted:How many Stellaris players have we got in this thread? I'm guessing it's at least a few. I've been thinking about figuring out the modding system and making the Whataplanet system and Hoomans as a custom start option. It's a pretty cool looking system. Make them pick a civic like "fled homeworld" It gives habitability at the cost of population growth. Keep them stock human and make Hooboy arctic. This should be one of those hardcore civics where you can't change it after the fact. You pick it during empire creation you're stuck with it. Course that would put a lot of impetus to building up robots to make up for it. So you'd have to come up with some second civic that smooths that over too. Maybe some kind of synthphobic thing where you can't have robots but you get boosts to unity and influence? Maybe it could be traded out for normal civics later? e: you could even make it so that "fled homeworld" could be more generalized. Like maybe you have "fled arid homeworld" and pick tropical as your starting planet. Then that empire would have arid preference but a tropical capital. SniperWoreConverse fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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Vavrek posted:How many Stellaris players have we got in this thread? I'm guessing it's at least a few. I've been thinking about figuring out the modding system and making the Whataplanet system and Hoomans as a custom start option. It's a pretty cool looking system. That's a cool idea, I would use that mod. After I finish this Space Otters game.
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Vavrek posted:How many Stellaris players have we got in this thread? I'm guessing it's at least a few. I've been thinking about figuring out the modding system and making the Whataplanet system and Hoomans as a custom start option. It's a pretty cool looking system. Oh I'd totally play that. Kinda dropped Stellaris for a bit but 2.0 has sucked me right back in.
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Crazycryodude posted:Oh I'd totally play that. Kinda dropped Stellaris for a bit but 2.0 has sucked me right back in. Nice! I am beginning to dabble with Kerbal Space Program. Here's to landing my next spaceship with a bang. Planet X, here I come.
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New posts!..... gently caress. gently caress you guys!
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Outrail posted:New posts!.....  It was time to bump it or let it get archived and I'm not letting Olo off the hook that easy
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Crazycryodude posted:
That's fair. 
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