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- Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: making a plasma with jet of water
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10813
making a plasma with jet of water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTq8oGpqwM& this was mentioned in a scientific paper and this fellow decided to replicate the results. He found he could create the plasma on most surfaces he tried even though the original researchers used something kind of exotic. Oil didn't have the plasma effect ...
- Sun Mar 26, 2017 1:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8786
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
looks like we have more pressing problems here on Earth though:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casest ... in-arctic/
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casest ... in-arctic/
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8786
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
Well the transportation idea should work, its got over 1.78 jiggawatts per square meter of beam intersection
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8786
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
The intense ionizing radiation will convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and tons of buckyballs.. Too bad they are deadly when inhaledJoeP wrote:Venus is too hard.
Floating cloud cities seem the most viable option. Still hard though with poisonous atmosphere.
Titan is much friendlier.

- Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:58 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8786
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
Fixing the atmosphere of Venus is the easy part. That chunk of rock has a day longer than its year. This could be even worse than being tidally locked to always have on side facing the Sun. In that condition, at least there could be a narrow habitable band at the terminator, between a side constant...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:55 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8786
Re: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
Now Quaid, get your ass to Mars 

- Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:21 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8786
How to terraform Venus and provide fast transportation through out the solar system with this one weird trick
The main limitation for the use of Dyson-Harrop satellites: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19497-out-of-this-world-proposal-for-solar-wind-power/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/sokolowsky2/ for the generation of electrical energy has been transporting it and converting it to ci...
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 3:30 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: X-Ray Reflection and Absorption
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11273
Re: X-Ray Reflection and Absorption
It is a toughie, I thought of the same thing just recently. Even if you could bend the Xrays back in on itself, you would probably lose too much energy from losses at the reflectors. To make matters worse, the X-rays would probably pass right through the ignited gas or plasma.
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 2:31 pm
- Forum: History
- Topic: Pyroelectric fusion (the other "cold" fusion)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 38581
Re: Pyroelectric fusion (the other "cold" fusion)
Yeah, it is hot fusion, and it doesn't make a heck of a lot of fusion events. But I wonder if you accelerated H ions instead of deuterium, and you used a lead target, could you get some decent spallation neutrons from such a setup?
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 2:26 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Were the first z-pinch machines really this simple?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8266
Re: Were the first z-pinch machines really this simple?
On the other hand I have observed large curling effects when messing around with plasma ball toys, the plasma definitely looks unstable in that case. But isn't that an AC discharge vs DC?
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 2:21 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Were the first z-pinch machines really this simple?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8266
Re: Were the first z-pinch machines really this simple?
The big discussion way back when was instability, apparently the filaments twisted around and slammed into the container walls. I find that interesting, isn't lightning pretty stable? It seems to branch into areas of lesser resistance but I don't see it doing curly q's in the air too often...
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 2:18 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: we maybe barking up the wrong tree all together
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8446
Re: we maybe barking up the wrong tree all together
The wiki says that the current theory about TGFs is that the lightning accelerates electrons into the upper atmosphere at relativistic speeds. When these relativistic electrons collide with heavy nuclei they spall off neutrons and other heavy particles. They didn't make the connection but this is th...
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 2:27 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Were the first z-pinch machines really this simple?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8266
Were the first z-pinch machines really this simple?
Take a pair of electrodes separated by the desired distance in a deuterium envelope and apply a few million volts to get a discharge?
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Nasa is releasing their 2017-2018 software catalog for free
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3401
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Nasa is releasing their 2017-2018 software catalog for free
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3401
Nasa is releasing their 2017-2018 software catalog for free
https://software.nasa.gov
https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/0 ... e-for-free
Though you have to ask for it, I didn't say pretty please.. will I regret it?
https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/0 ... e-for-free
Though you have to ask for it, I didn't say pretty please.. will I regret it?
