sean
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Post by sean on Aug 10, 2019 1:13:28 GMT
The old Cindy would just roll with it because of her "loyalty" to Ventura. I wonder what changed.
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Post by evileeyore on Aug 10, 2019 13:14:11 GMT
Time.
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Post by shiningbrow on Aug 15, 2019 8:55:10 GMT
I'm wondering if Velcro would work as well as pins.
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Post by freeflier on Aug 15, 2019 18:33:54 GMT
Velcro needs a larger contact patch, so the entire board would have to be larger.
(Velcro smaller than 2cm square doesn't stick very well.)
--FreeFlier
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Post by sotanaht on Aug 16, 2019 3:22:13 GMT
The logistics of this are starting to get unbelievable in terms of material. Each worldship houses a star, so that means one less star system in the galaxy each time they leave. The outside is a solid surface. If the inside is also mostly solid as art in yesterday's comic suggests, they require many MUCH more matter to actually build. The image appears to have a radius of 3 to 6 times the diameter of the star at the center, which gives it a volume roughly 200 to 1800 times that of the star itself. At 200 million pins/worldships, that would put an upper bound around 400 billion stars worth of mass. The number of stars in the Milky Way is estimated at 100 to 400 billion, so that's literally the entire mass of the galaxy transplanted outside of the galaxy. Either the Milky Way used to be a lot more massive, or this is basically impossible. If it's 200 million FLEETS of worldships, it's just completely impossible.
Even if they are mostly empty space like they should be, you are still talking about removing millions of stars and tens of millions of star-systems worth of mass from the galaxy. That sort of thing would get noticed by astronomers of basically every civilization, not to mention the missing resources would be sorely missed by subsequent generations.
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Post by freeflier on Aug 16, 2019 4:48:55 GMT
That's the rest of the missing mass . . . it's not all Dark Matter.
--FreeFlier
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Post by Motortiki on Aug 17, 2019 1:19:56 GMT
That's the rest of the missing mass . . . it's not all Dark Matter. --FreeFlier Huh. I wonder if that is plausible.
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Post by freeflier on Aug 17, 2019 2:51:20 GMT
That's the rest of the missing mass . . . it's not all Dark Matter. --FreeFlier Huh. I wonder if that is plausible. We presume that there's missing mass, like there is in our world . . . why couldn't some of it be in the worldship rings? Of course, depending on your definitions, the worldship rings could also be considered dark matter, since they are emitting as little as possible. --FreeFlier
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