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Post by argonbalt on Mar 28, 2017 18:25:22 GMT
On mobile, cant find a way to sort by when newest members signed up. Some sort of graph with the x axis being the dates and the y axis the amount of traffic, would be nice The data is there its more so a matter of graphing it yourself more than anything.
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 25, 2017 15:41:26 GMT
One of my friends has a habit of ending his haikus with something random. "Refrigerator" is his favorite. I admit i have some shortcomings, i was mainly stuck because i do not know the exact equation for: Material)x(thickness)(heat capacity)+(atmospheric pressure)(Co/Kg3/M3)=Material heat at depth x Im not sure if something that direct even exists, it may actually be a matter of simply getting a metre of basalt heated by 870c at 90 atm and then multiplying that by? Heat loss across rock/material? is there an equation for that? This once again negates the fact that much of the cooling in Earths surface comes from pro active radiation into the atmosphere and oceans, and where heated areas can dump that heat at night/into cooler regions. On Venus no area is a cooler area, so no active radiation can occur.
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 25, 2017 3:20:28 GMT
so I was wrong, my line of thinking was the 10-40ft underground on earth irl is a cool 60-70F, no matter where you dig Earth also has inherent liquid and air cooling cycles, so i don't know if the conclusion is really as easily transferable.
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 24, 2017 22:10:29 GMT
dig into the planet a little bit, a few hundred feet should be good for a heat-sink, might even find water or ice deep underground On Venus? I doubt that. Especially taking into account the plethora of basalt deposits on the surface, i wonder if we could draw some conclusions. Now i will fully admit that like many things i am generally interested in but not a practising geologist . With that out of the way lets see if i can ham-fistedly work through this: The average surface temperature is:864 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius). Coverting to joules that comes out to 1640822.86 j, or 1.64 Mj. On top of this there is about 90 atm of pressure, which comes out to 9119.25 kilo-pascals of pressure. next we need the specific heat of basalt rock which is 0.2(kcal/(kg oC)) or 0.84(kJ/(kg K)) and the density Basalt 2.4 - 3.1 (103 kg/m3) now this is where i am surpassed by far more learned folk, but i suppose you'd need to take combined heat and pressure measurements apply them to the basalt rock, add several hundred metres, then try to find the mean temperature. Then hoping that it is not already still several hundred degrees anymore, you could find out if a heat dump is even possible 1 and 2 if it is possible, how much heat your external features of your base need to dump away so as not to disintegrate utterly(ignoring as i have the potential effects the acidic atmosphere could also have).
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 23, 2017 15:50:30 GMT
Well i don't know how to put this exactly, but i think COADE is not really wiki friendly/does not really need a wiki. Now understand you could probably throw up all the data links stuff as general pages, but even that has problems. Namely 1:
The default items are already included in game as datalinks, in Halo you needed to read at least a few background stories for context in the main game. Here the context is readily included.
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Even the default material and ship designs frequently change state so even those pages are sorta temporal. Likewise the ships themselves are still obliterated by most user made designs that are far more optimised.
IN addition even the conclusions drawn from this game mainly exist here on the forums. Likewise the best usefull resource for COADE related functions is Atomic-rockets/Project Rho as they have the extensive background and beginner friendly physics and engineering pages.
So i do not think COADE really requires or comfortably fits a wiki format.
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 22, 2017 22:21:19 GMT
Well to throw another geological wrench in your gears, Venus also has a likely still active and vibrant volcanic sub layer. The Surface is after all 90% basalt, 65% of the surface is also comprised of lava flows. On top of that no less than 1000 volcanic mounts are documented. NOW hypothetically all the activity could have occurred long ago and recently ceased, but we cannot really say, some have speculated and observed potential contemporary activity around 2008-2010, but my point is it is perhaps underground is just as bad as above. Surely the entire crust isn't covered in active volcanoes and magma tubes. There have to be some fairly stable locations for colonization. Now the magnetosphere is pretty weak and it's crust activity seems to be pretty dormant, but im just saying that the external environment is already pretty harsh and the subterranean crust may be somewhat treacherous. Granted the biggest counter argument is actually the fact that craters still appear on Venus, meaning that even the atmosphere as shield idea is somewhat limited
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 22, 2017 21:28:58 GMT
Venus seems like one of the most secure planets in the solar system. Subterranean bases would be practically immune from orbital attack, protected by the thick, opaque atmosphere. Any missile used to attack the surface would have to be specialized for the high pressures (9.2 Mpa, 92x Earth levels) and corrosive environment, increasing its cost massively and making barrages less practical. All told, Venus may be the only body in the solar system where surface invasions are more viable than orbital attack, and even then it would be extremely difficult. Well to throw another geological wrench in your gears, Venus also has a likely still active and vibrant volcanic sub layer. The Surface is after all 90% basalt, 65% of the surface is also comprised of lava flows. On top of that no less than 1000 volcanic mounts are documented. NOW hypothetically all the activity could have occurred long ago and recently ceased, but we cannot really say, some have speculated and observed potential contemporary activity around 2008-2010, but my point is it is perhaps underground is just as bad as above.
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 22, 2017 4:26:10 GMT
is that a " My little pony" dressed up to be WH40K Hicks ? somebody mentioned MLP
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 21, 2017 15:23:37 GMT
The Expanse may be one of the strongest-SF show we have, but it does have a few soft sides. Water commerce is one - in the books, the exploited status of the Belters is closer to the XIXe Century colonies: they are voluntarily maintained into economic subservience by Earth- and Mars-based powers and industries, stopping them to develop their own autonomous industry and in general keeping wages and life standard low. In the show, they simplified that to control over water, because developing it concisely enough in those episodes would probably have been too difficult. Also Ceres probably has massive water ice reserves, so it is hard to imagine Earth and Mars strip-mining it entirely to the point that they have to import it. That said, water is indeed very important, but it would probably rarely be moved directly. Instead, it would be a local resource used as a base for many industries. Now, the ice-covered moons would be an asset, as they would have massive quantities of easily accessible water for said industries. (A few others are high-end torchships without radiators, spinning Ceres and Eros without destroying them through centrifugal force, and their stealth ships that clearly don't look like functional hydrogen steamers, though they do work pretty much the same way) That and i think the ship designs could have used a bit more polish, it is still better than allot of series but it could have been re worked just a bit more.
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 21, 2017 15:19:45 GMT
I had no idea where to place this, but when I saw it I almost jumped in the air. Tell me this doesn't look JUST like... All tracers from any sufficiently high ROF gun will look like what we have in COADE,if you look far enough you could probably find ww2 footage that looked similar.
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 20, 2017 1:16:55 GMT
You should get married with apophys , then. And from their union: Boron Aerogel. KONO POWA DA!
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 17, 2017 23:37:12 GMT
If these platforms can be hacked or corrupted than the same automation which grants ease of access and deployment could be it's own worst enemy. With all due respect, mr moderator, I don't think hacking works like you think it does. And whatever means of hacking the drones you might come up with, the engineers back home designing the drones would have already predicted before the first one rolled off the assembly line. Jamming? Quite plausible, yes. Hacking/hijacking? No. I would not be so certain of that, "The Department of Defense released a statement acknowledging that it had lost control of a UAV during the previous week, claiming that it was "flying a mission over western Afghanistan" when control was lost. The statement did not specify the model of the aircraft. The U.S. government also stated that it was still investigating the cause of the loss.[16] A Christian Science Monitor article relates an Iranian engineer's assertion that the drone was captured by jamming both satellite and land-originated control signals to the UAV, followed up by a GPS spoofing attack that fed the UAV false GPS data to make it land in Iran at what the drone thought was its home base in Afghanistan. Stephen Trimble from Flight Global assumes UAV guidance could be targeted by 1L222 Avtobaza radar jamming and deception system supplied to Iran by Russia.[17] In an interview for Nova, U.S. retired Lt. General David Deptula also said "There was a problem with the aircraft and it landed in an area it wasn't supposed to land".[18][19]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incidentMind you this was on Earth where the distances are quite a deal smaller and the horizon and altitude can lend advantages to stealth movement. In space things only get worse for a pure drone launched fleet light seconds from Earth. Grante the RQ-170 could have simply crashed or had some software issue but there is already an interesting idea for counter manipulation of unmanned assets.
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 17, 2017 22:47:30 GMT
Then again, that's the same universe where an eco-extremist decides that the best way to heal Earth from human presence is to throw two asteroids at it in order to cause a giant ice age. If he had turned physician instead of eco-ranger, he would have recommended two bullets in the head for a migraine cure. And of course he aims the two asteroids at two major historical and cultural population centres, because that's tradition at this point. This is what i find so infuriatingly stupid about Unicorn(and what may perhaps be applied to the discussion on taking colonies) Assuming Gundam:The Origin's slightly tidier version of events, the Spacenoids retained both population and resourcing superiority in the Earth sphere. Full Frontal's plan of an Earth economic exclusion zone (mind you not even to devastate the Earth like Char's mad plan, albeit that whole scheme might have simply been to make one final glorious fight for him and Amuro but i digress) Is the most sensible and reasonable Zeon-related plan in the Universal Century. If the Earth is truly reliant on the produce and resources of the space colonies then simply blockading them with trade sanctions. Then that stupid bitch who definitely inherited the brain of Dozle if nothing else, says "fuck u cause u dont think peple can change" or some shit. Honestly what a reasonable damn plan for attaining self governance.
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 17, 2017 14:03:12 GMT
you guys made me break into the infolinks again deltav samchiu2000 gedzilla dragonkid11 The Astronomer RFP: started as asia south of china but people from around the world soon flocked to their launchers to get off earth - Mix of everything Nippon Prime: Japan USTA: Russo-China LE: Corperations, all of them. IR: USTA rebals, may have been eaten by USTA not to mention the sub blocks of factions within that
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 17, 2017 13:56:32 GMT
Alongside the political implications and moral bankruptcy in gassing a station, it's worth noting that any large orbital habitat will necessarily be an ecosystem with plants providing food and oxygen, scavengers and microbes breaking down the dead to fertilize the soil, organisms of various types treating the water, predators to keep pests under control (you know those damn bugs will somehow get aboard to eat your crops) and so forth. Kill everyone and you're guaranteed to screw up that nicely balanced system and undo the decades of work needed to get it running properly. At last i remember those that did use gassing's were all to concerned with internal ecosystems vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/gundam/images/d/d3/1321920117950.png/revision/latest?cb=20111204074441
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