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#26 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-12 21:25:08

Good Points Calliban.  There is certainly a lot of Moon and Mars to get water from and to make "Bricks" from.

I think that for both worlds, the story of the abundance of water keeps expanding.

So, it may be that there will be enough water to last, until a sort of Von Neumann process can be placed into the solar system.

Where that sort of thing speculates on a machine that seeks to replicate itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_machine

We could imagine a collection of machines, not that much smarter than a bee's hive (More or Less) that would devote its interests in bringing volatile materials to dry worlds, and to maintain themselves.  The solar system has energy and materials and time.  If you put a semi-intelligent manipulative machine structure to work, it might dedicate itself to more or less irrigating our Moon.

But for now, there may be enough materials in the Moon to help bootstrap humans and their machines into the solar system.

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One thing I forgot to include is salt on the Moon.

As usual my phone search gave much more than my computer search, until I used phrases from the phone search:

https://www.sciencealert.com/change-5-m … -moon-soil
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Chang'e-5 Hydrated Salt Minerals
The Chang'e-5 mission has made significant strides in understanding the presence of water on the Moon. The mission's findings include the discovery of a hydrated mineral enriched in water, which contains up to six water molecules and accounts for about 41% of its mass. This mineral, known as ULM-1, is a prismatic, plate-like transparent crystal and is believed to have formed from volcanic eruptions on the Moon. The presence of this mineral suggests that water molecules can persist in sunlit areas of the Moon as hydrated salts, which could be crucial for future lunar exploration and habitation

Sodium and Potassium Salts have been mentioned as a sort of salt, but also in the atmosphere of Moon: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sci … 1.4866.675
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Discovery of Sodium and Potassium Vapor in the Atmosphere of the Moon
A. E. Potter and T. H. MorganAuthors Info & Affiliations

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne … 180981906/
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Scientists Find Water in Glass Beads From the Moon
This means the lunar surface could hold up to 300 billion tons of water, a new study estimates
Will Sullivan
Will Sullivan - Daily Correspondent

March 31, 2023

Some stories indicate that the beads came from volcanism, and some stories say it is beads from impacts that make craters.

So, here is the Question:  "Could we manufacture the salts and beads, and put them under the shade of solar panels to collect water?"  This is to collect water that moves horizontally with the day/night cycle.  Then to extract the water and then restore the collector device.

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#27 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Multi-Ship Expeditions, Starboat & Starship, Other. » 2025-11-12 09:56:12

If Stoke Space is successful with it's upper stage, I say again that SpaceX should work with them to make a second form of "Starship" a Hydro-Lox one.

https://www.stokespace.com/nova/
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I would be interested in a version with a broader base, that could be used on the Moon.  Without the Heat Shield.

It is Hydro-Lox and it begins to seem that the Moon has much more water than was supposed.

What if you made a Hydro-Lox tanker out of it, to transport water up to an orbital Starship?

If the Starship has brought some Carbon with it, then you can completely refill the Starship in Lunar Orbit.

Pause...........

I think that with a broader base relative to height, it might be good as landings on the Moon without topple.

I would expect that Starships would also land on the Moon at times.

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An interesting feature is that if you made the base broad enough the Hydro-Lox engines could be firing even from ground zero while the Superheavy was firing it's engines.  That might mean less gravity losses on the way up.  Hopefully this would not damage the Superheavy.

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#28 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-12 09:03:54

Because in part building structures in space may rely on materials from the Moon, Mars and other worlds I will put this here: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … ORM=VAMGZC Quote:

They Just 3D Printed an Electrolyzer — and It Might Change Everything
YouTube
reneenergy. com
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Getting basic material from fine regolith's could be enhanced by improved Electrolysis.

My reading is that the soil of Mars has about 2% water.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/167 … sity-rover
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Approximately 2%
Mars soil contains approximately 2% water by weight, which translates to about two pints (one liter) of water per cubic foot when heated. This finding is significant for future human exploration of Mars, as it suggests that water could be readily available on the planet's surface.

So, it is fine if you want to mine ice on Mars and it is local to where you are.  But I believe that ~2/3rds of does not seem to have buried ice.

So, lets say you want to process regolith to get various things out of it such as water, Iron, Hydrogen, Oxygen and other special chemicals that may only be local to a "Ice-Free" area.  Then this may be a thing for you.

Once you initially had water, you could wash salts out of the fine regolith and make use of them.  Next you could dry the fine regolith and subject it to pyrolysis with Hydrogen to reduce it.  Perhaps you only seek Iron and slag, maybe you will extract other things from the slag.

Now you have extracted Iron and Oxygen from it.  And I presume what trace substances you wanted, that it contained.

The salts that you did not have a use for could be added back to the regolith to again collect water from the atmosphere.

The Moon is even more interesting to me in this regard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_water
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The Moon's water cycle involves the presence of water in various forms, primarily as ice in permanently shadowed craters and as hydroxyl molecules on the surface, influenced by solar wind and temperature changes.
Presence of Water on the Moon
Water Ice: Recent missions have confirmed the presence of water ice in permanently shadowed regions of the Moon, particularly in craters that never receive sunlight. This ice is not in large sheets but exists as small chunks mixed with lunar regolith.
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Hydroxyl Molecules: Water is also found in the form of hydroxyl (OH) groups, which are chemically bonded within minerals on the lunar surface. These molecules are present in low concentrations and can be formed through interactions with solar wind hydrogen ions.
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The Lunar Water Cycle
Daytime Cycle: The Moon experiences a cycle of hydration and dehydration throughout its day. In the morning, when temperatures are cooler, water and hydroxyl molecules are present. As the Moon heats up during the day, some of this water evaporates or is lost. By evening, as temperatures drop again, the surface can rehydrate, returning to its morning state.
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Sources of Water: The water on the Moon may have originated from two main sources: it could have been delivered by water-rich asteroids and comets during impacts or produced in situ through chemical reactions involving solar wind.
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Scientific Missions and Discoveries
Various missions, including NASA's SOFIA and the Chandrayaan-1, have contributed to our understanding of lunar water. These missions have provided data confirming the presence of water in different forms and have helped map its distribution across the lunar surface.
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Understanding the Moon's water cycle is crucial for future lunar exploration and potential habitation, as water is a vital resource for sustaining human life and supporting long-term missions.

Because there is international propaganda involved I will not seek references.  But the picture I have is that glass beads can temporarily store Hydrogen bearing compounds like OH and H20.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=%0A%0A%0A … orm=IPRV10
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The discovery of water in glass beads on the Moon is a significant advancement in our understanding of the lunar surface's water resources. These beads, formed by meteorite impacts, can store substantial quantities of water, potentially up to 300 billion tons, which could be a crucial resource for future lunar missions. The water in these beads is believed to have formed from hydrogen in solar wind combining with oxygen in the beads after impact. This process suggests an efficient water cycle on the Moon, where water can diffuse in and out of the beads over time. While the discovery is exciting, extracting water from these small glass beads on an industrial scale may prove challenging at this stage. However, the potential for water storage in these beads opens up new possibilities for lunar exploration and resource utilization.
Smithsonian Magazine
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As I can visualize it there is a vertical water input which is of the solar wind and hydrated impactors.

But there is a horizontal water vapor flow where the day night cycles have an influence.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia1222 … -the-moon/
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Daytime Water Cycle on the Moon
Sept. 24, 2009

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Water migrates on the Moon during the lunar day due to the temperature variations.
In the morning, when the Moon is cold, it contains water and hydroxyl molecules. As the Moon warms up, some of this water and hydroxyl are lost, and by the evening, the surface cools again, returning to a hydrated state.
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The dynamics of water migration are driven by temperature changes, creating suitable conditions for water to move a few centimeters deep in the lunar soil.
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Water molecules remain bound to the surface throughout the lunar day, and as temperatures rise, some migrate to higher altitudes, while others settle back down as the surface cools.
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This process is crucial for understanding the lunar environment and potential water resources for future exploration.

So, rather than simple strip-mining of the surface of the Moon can we leave a surface that will continue to absorb/adsorb Hydrogen bearing molecules.  Can be leave behind glass beads if they do that sort of work?

If this were the case, we could repeatedly harvest the water from such a created bed of glass beads.  This would mostly be "Horizontal Water".

The Moon would collect most of the "Vertical Water" and then share it about its surface, and the glass bead beds may continually collect the mobile water.  Then by some method the water could be extracted for human use.

Solar panels placed over these "Bead Beds" might serve a double life as sunshades, keeping the beads cooler during the Lunar Day, perhaps allowing them to collect more OH and H20.


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#29 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Multi-Ship Expeditions, Starboat & Starship, Other. » 2025-11-11 18:56:21

I think this can fit into the previous post: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE
Project Athena Explained: Cancelling SLS and Repurposing Gateway as a Nuclear-Powered Space Tug
YouTube
Space Startup News
1.4K views

A nuclear-electric tug or nuclear at all would be interesting.  A Starship with a Nuclear Tug could do some interesting things.

I think it would be nice to have some Hydro-Lox engines.  But Blue Origin, ULA, and Stoke Space can provide newer versions of that.

I think the Stoke Space upper stage could be rather good for the Moon, to work with Starships both on the surface and in Orbit.

A Stoke Space upper stage supersized, might ride up on Superheavy, and be brought to the Moon.

It could have a very broad footprint, and the plume being more distributed may be more compatible with landing on regolith with lots of small materials.  And it is Hydro-Lox, and might serve as a tanker to bring Oxygen up to a Lunar depot(s) for Starship.

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#30 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Multi-Ship Expeditions, Starboat & Starship, Other. » 2025-11-11 10:27:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsr8aILNzog
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Elon Musk just revealed the direct launch to the Moon: SpaceX's Dragon-Starship spacecraft !

Future Space

I think it has potential, but they will need a filled depot, and I think a transport Dragon not inside the Starship that can do a human rated launch to LEO and then transfer the crew.

Pause...............

I think that there are a very large set of ways this sort of thing could be expanded to increase capabilities.

1) Iterations of Starship should become more capable.

2) Dragon capabilities could be expanded: https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-iss … n-revealed
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SpaceX has dreamed up a Dragon ship on steroids to drag the ISS out of space

3) Refilling may become possible on the Moon.
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/moon-water-and-ices/
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Recent research has shown that water and hydroxyl molecules are present on the Moon's surface, not just in the polar regions.
Water has been found in various locations, including areas that receive sunlight, indicating that it is not confined to the poles.
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This discovery is significant for understanding the Moon's geological history and could be crucial for future lunar missions.
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The presence of water is likely due to ancient impacts and interactions with solar wind, rather than being present in liquid form.
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This finding challenges previous beliefs that the Moon was devoid of water, opening up new possibilities for lunar exploration and potential human habitation.

At the very least, even with just a little Hydrogen you could cook up Oxygen using regolith, pyrolysis, and electrolysis.  So, you could refill the Oxygen at least.

While it might be nice to have a polar base on the Moon one closer to the equator near minerals with water and a lava tube might be very desirable as well.

Lunar Orbital Space Stations could be supported as well.  Those might be supported by Starships that have heat shields and flaps.  I approve of the goals of the NASA polar orbital space station, which are running robots remotely on the Moon and also working with electric space drives.

Let me suppose a future mission to the Moon:

Two Starships head towards the Moon.  One is of the HLS heritage, and one is a fully fledged ship with a heat shield.  Capsules will also be associated with this.

The HLS lands on the Moon and the Full Ship goes to an Lunar Orbital Space Station.

The HLS gets refilled, at least with Oxygen.  Ideally with Methane as well using CO2 and Carbon brought along.  Using Hydrogen.

The HLS launches from the Moon surface with propellants and joins with the Ful Fledged Starship and Space Station.

The HLS gives more Oxygen to the Full-Fledged Starship, and if it needs it the Full-Fledged Starship gives Methane to the HLS.

The Full-Fledged Starship heads back to Earth with a capsule for humans.  Just prior to reaching Earth, the Capsule exits the Full-Fledged Starship and does an entry to land on Earh.

The Full-Fledged Starship does a partial skim of the Earth's atmosphere, ideally without humans on board.  It continues to do additional skims of the atmosphere, until it gets an orbit where it can drop off Propellants to another craft, perhaps another Starship.  Probably only Oxygen.

At some point the Full-Fledged Starship may do a full entry to the Earth's atmosphere and land on Earth.

Meanwhile, back at the Moon, the HLS either lands on the Moon again to become part of infrastructure or stays with the Space Station to become part of an expansion of the Space Station.

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#31 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-10 11:46:44

An aspect of the schemes I have recently posted about is that while some have considered Mass Drivers that send packages to a recipient, and some have considered Mass Drivers that eject mass for propulsion, these schemes can do both.

But it can also involve tethers.  I like multiple tethers so that repairs might be made if one is damaged.  Some tethers can be for strength, some for electrodynamic interaction with magnetic fields and some could be transporting pathways for payloads.

This cuts space elevator concepts into pieces which I think may be practical before any world-based device may become practical.

If this were done with ideal efficiency, then you could imagine it as a pipeline where a fluid flowing down would help to lift a fluid flowing up.

Pause for a drawing: z3CS8PZ.png

In an imaginary world, the Earth and Moon are liquified and parallel pipelines exchange materials.  Turbines help propel this process, if you push Moon materials down then the turbines push Earth materials up.  But of course the Earth has the much greater gravity well.

From the previous post, quote:

Keep in mind that this is new puzzling so do not expect final forms: cFs9QVI.png

So, if you land a payload from the Moon and a payload from the Earth on the "Base" of this device, and then propel the Earth sourced one towards the Moon and the Moon sourced one towards the Earth, then you may have dome something similar to the above drawing.

I know some have talked about snatching payloads up using tethers and hooks, and that is fine for them if they can make it work, but I have this for now.  I am presuming relatively efficient Electric Rockets to go get payloads after they have been "Ejected" and then to move them to the next device up or down in the gravity well.

There is a way to add a pendulum to this system to help the process, but for now we have something which can be thought about at least.

https://www.youtube.com/@Anthrofuturism has some very nice videos, this one deals with Mass Drivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxCllBtojds

They decide to work with a one-ton payload as a sort of guess that may be close to good.  If they can make it work then perhaps it would work on the "Omega Rings" instead of what I proposed.

Elon Musk has seemed to indicate that he visualizes making Satellites on the Moon and projecting them to orbits using a Mass Driver of some sort.

So, while I was thinking of a system that would project a spaceship it has to be realized that a one-ton payload would be a better thing to try.  If the Ton-Device had solar power and a transmitter of some kind, then after a toss, it could be retrieved by an electric rocket and put to the next toss device to be tossed again.

Material tossed from the Moon "Down" in the Earth's gravity well would lift the toss-device up in that gravity well.  But if you had loaded a payload to toss "Up" in the Earth's gravity well, you might approach an approximately "Null" altitude change.

It may be that there will be ideal orbits where it makes sense to move materials to from each world.  Possibly geosynchronous, maybe a bit lower.

Obviously if you can get a mass driver to work on the Moon to toss the 1-Ton devices, then you have a power supply by dropping loads down in the Earth's gravity well and then you may to some degree use that energy to lift materials in the Earth's gravity well to higher orbits, if Starship can get them up at least to LEO or maybe even just  a bit lower in a temporary orbit.

And of course we want Hydrogen and Carbon from the Earth, and lots of mass from the Moon.  But it appears that China has reason to believe that the Moon has much more water than was previously supposed.

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#32 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-09 19:30:36

I am interested in fractional space catapults.

That is I do not seek one that will shoot from the Moon all the way to LEO, but which might give a portion of that need.

And at this point I am thinking about a combinational method.

I am looking at the Atlatl and the Catapult, and maglev trains, and TARS.  All working together to launch spacecraft.

atlatl (pronounced /ˈætlætəl): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower

Catapult: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult

Maglev Train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev

T.A.R.S. (Very modified): https://sciencereader.com/a-new-interst … d-t-a-r-s/

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These devices can store and release energy.  In the case of Maglev Train, batteries probably in use to store.

T.A.R.S. as I modify it is a tether system with mass added to store energy in intertie between launches.

Both types, Rotavator or Skyhook may have their uses in different situations.

In order to be pompous, I will introduce the "OMEGA RINGS".  This may be suitable to a Rotavator device.

I will make a drawing:  Pause...............

Keep in mind that this is new puzzling so do not expect final forms: DyKCqYE.png

That would be a Rotavator foundation.  Before I was considering water tanks for T.A.R.S. but now I am supposing that various things could be attached to this frame, adding inertia, such as Data Centers, and protective radiators with fluids in them, such as water.

Each ring includes a Maglev Track. Even if that is heavy consider that heavy has inertia can store rotational energy.

This is unlike a mass driver for pushing out a payload.  That would require capacitors and coils fired in sequence. 

This would be Maglev Engines pushing a payload down the track towards the release point on the perimeter.  The spin of the Omega Rings, and the power of the Maglev Engine would provide speed to the payload.  This would be like a Maglev that runs down a mountain.

At the point of release, we may use a spring-loaded Catapult to provide an Atlatl effect adding even more energy to the toss.  The payload might be a spacecraft.

So, energy of spin of the Omega Rings, and the Maglev Battery powered, and then a spring-loaded release on a catapult.

The function of train track and it being the backbone may make things complicated as to how to attach various things like power plants, Data Centers, and Habitable Radiators, but I think it could be done.

Pause................

OK this only rotates once per orbit of Earth, so is not a rotavator: cFs9QVI.png

Rather than one tether, many would be joined between rings.  So, if one gets severed repairs may be possible.

It would be very much longer than is depicted in this drawing.  I anticipate spacecraft landing on the "Base" and then being "Raised" or "Lowered" to one of the Omega Rings for relaunch.

These tethers may be electrodynamic so as to give propulsion against the Earth's magnetic field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic_tether

It will probably be relatively easy to attach many solar panels to this system.  However, it may be practical to transmit energy to the Omega Rings from the Base.

The intent is to conserve propellants, not to entirely replace them.

Multiple instances of these could make a "Space Ladder" for spaceships and payloads.

I think these may be quite useful in the asteroid belt as well, as the task is very much reduced to travel between two proximate asteroids.

Any ideas/comments are welcome.

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#33 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-08 18:58:25

Good for China.

I can excuse them tooting their own horn.  I don't know that they found new things, but they do have additional information.  Also they seem to have discovered more of everything.

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … df9dbe3dfa
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CHINA'S SHOCKING Moon Discovery Revealed |The New Space Race Nobody's Talking About it
YouTube
The fact Engine

In my opinion contact with East Asia and Russia and perhaps the Nordics has a favorable result for the peoples who we claim like freedoms.

It is a count balance to the Verbal and Violent processes that center on the Middle East, and project even into Christianity to some extent.

I believe that the same was true when Europeans encountered the native peoples of the Americas.

But China and Japan will not collapse as much.  I do not hate Christian culture itself, but the elites of Christian nations turn out the lights, eat the brains.  Not that China And Japan are without fault and not in need of exterior inputs, but contact between the groups can produce value in my opinion.

We may have Japan with us more closely, but we also may find graceful balance with China and Russia and others on the Moon.

After all the surface of the Moon is about the size of North and South American I believe.  And the solar system is some much more vast.

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#34 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Multi-Ship Expeditions, Starboat & Starship, Other. » 2025-11-08 16:27:02

I have seen a video today that says that metal heat shield are the best.  This contradicts the recent public claims.

I am confused, but I hope that it is true that they are so much better.

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … fe93349d97

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Elon Musk Just Revealed SpaceX's Bold Heat Shield Plan... 300% BETTER Than a Ceramic Heat Shield!
YouTube
Future Space

I hope this is true.  300% better and much less costly.

Do we care so much what color it is if it works?


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I wonder if a "Naked Metal Starship" could shuttle between LEO and Higher orbits, by doing shallow dives into the atmosphere.  The Stainless Steel shell might be enough up to a certain temperature.  It could not land, but could move cargo up and down in the Earth's gravity well.


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The temperature limits of stainless steel vary by grade, and here are some key points:
Grade 304: Can withstand temperatures up to 1,598°F (870°C) intermittently and 1,697°F (925°C) continuously.
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Grade 316: Offers better corrosion resistance and can operate up to 925°C (1,700°F).
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Grade 310: Resists oxidation and can handle temperatures up to 2,100°F (1,150°C).
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Grade 321: Suitable for high-temperature applications, with a maximum temperature of 980°F (475°C).
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Grade 347: Designed for ultra-high temperatures, with a maximum temperature of 1,200°F (600°C).
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These limits are crucial for selecting the right stainless steel for various applications, especially in environments where high temperatures are involved.


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Could you put bathtub enamel on the outside to avoid corrosion?

Could you squirt fluids to the underbelly of the ship for the hot spots?

For instance could you squirt a 90% Methane 10% Oxygen combusted exhaust to the underbelly from the nose area perhaps.

A package delivered to LEO, could be clamped onto the outside of the "Naked Metal Starship", to be moved up in the Earth's gravity well.

#35 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-08 16:06:06

An alternative to a "Spin-Tars" would be a double ended tether system in orbit.  Perhaps even an electrodynamic tether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic_tether
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Electrodynamic tether

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Medium close-up view, captured with a 70 mm camera, shows tethered satellite system deployment.
Electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) are long conducting wires, such as one deployed from a tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetic principles as generators, by converting their kinetic energy to electrical energy, or as motors, converting electrical energy to kinetic energy.[1] Electric potential is generated across a conductive tether by its motion through a planet's magnetic field.

A number of missions have demonstrated electrodynamic tethers in space, most notably the TSS-1, TSS-1R, and Plasma Motor Generator (PMG) experiments.

Tether propulsion
As part of a tether propulsion system, craft can use long, strong conductors (though not all tethers are conductive) to change the orbits of spacecraft. It has the potential to make space travel significantly cheaper.[citation needed] When direct current is applied to the tether, it exerts a Lorentz force against the magnetic field, and the tether exerts a force on the vehicle. It can be used either to accelerate or brake an orbiting spacecraft.

In 2012 Star Technology and Research was awarded a $1.9 million contract to qualify a tether propulsion system for orbital debris removal.

At this time, I think the Earth's magnetic field extends out to maybe a bit more than geosynchronous.

In this case rather than spinning a big tank of water, you might have it as a landing pad at the middle of the structure.

You would have a tether extended towards the Earth and one extended away from the Earth.

In this case the Tank of water could be in connection with solar power devices, and could host data centers, human and robot habitat, farming, and other features.  The Tank of water would be made as a radiator and radiation protection.

Poised well above space junk of LEO, we may hope to preserve tethers well enough to use them for extended periods.

A spacecraft landing on the Tank of water could proceed to the end of either tether and gain thrust in the direction of that tether.

If Electrodynamic Tethers are used the whole assembly can be raised or lowered in orbit. Depending on desires.

Something like this from post #16 might better apply: https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 93#p235293
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This radiator process might provide some radiation protection for AI, Robots, and Humans.

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The cylinder does not rotate, but a rotator might be inside of it.  The rotator would be partially protected from much radiation, but not all GCR.  The Rotator might host a small crew of humans who might run robots remotely to maintain the station.

Just one attempt.

Having a pressurized space between two cylinders, allows you to have internal stringers, to join the cylinder that it trying to expand out to the inner cylinder which tries to expand in.

So, you would just hang tethers in both directions off from the tank.

You could do this outside of the Earth's magnetic field, but then you would not do the electrodynamic parts of the scheme.
You might use an electric ion thrust, hopefully Neumann Drive or Magdrive will do.

I think that we do have a NASA problem as expressed by utube video presenters.  They are still in the 20th century.  While I think we may need to burn Hydrogen and Oxygen from the Moon at times when necessary, we should prefer not to.

Water can give endless service to space needs including propulsion, in some situations.

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#36 Re: Not So Free Chat » Peter Zeihan again: and also other thinkers: » 2025-11-08 16:02:12

I have a question.  It concerns a planet where a pastoralist people are murdering a agricultural people.

Who thinks it would be moral to kill the livestock of the people committing murder, to discourage that behavior?

As I see it is better than dropping bombs on their settlements or chasing the murderers around their domains of concealment.

If they are stubborn and get hungry, we could then offer them food and other good things, if they would surrender their weapons to us.  Perhaps even surrender themselves including women and children.

In order to kill their livestock, we could be hit and run ourselves making it hard for them to protect their livestock and while they were protecting their livestock from us, they would not be out killing the agricultural people.

I am really not saying anyone should do this, but I wonder what other people would think of this?

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#37 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-08 09:12:02

The last few posts from yesterday, deal with T.A.R.S. Specifically, "Water Tank TARS".

Water is used not only for it's inertia, but for radiation shielding, data center cooling, and agriculture, at least.

This morning, I have a scheme that involves at least 3 bases associated with the Moon:
1) Polar
2) Lower Latitude minerals (Platinum Family are hoped for).
3) Lunar orbital of some kind, where TARS will be developed.

This would involve a process to capture Oxygen and Iron and other substances from the Moon, to build things and to export.
I would also involve the import to base #3 primarily of Paraffin Wax.  I choose Paraffin Wax as it can be used as a fuel but also would be important in evolving resources from Lunar Materials.  It is also a relatively inert substance and also can provide radiation shielding.

At all 3 bases it may be possible to process an Iron concentrate using Paraffin Wax, or Hydrogen.

While it could be done in Base 1, it would be done with Lunar Hydrogen if possible.  From https://www.youtube.com/@Anthrofuturism , I get information that the Hydrogen can be used repeatedly and even should accumulate as more Hydrogen, presuming some Hydrogens in the regolith to process.

If we want some types of Iron or Steel, we might import some Carbon to Base #1 or find it on the Moon, perhaps dry ice at the poles.
This process would also produce Oxygen for breathing and for refilling spacecraft at base #1.  Base #1 may not target magnetic Iron, but more the larger quantity of non-magnetic Iron.

But Base #2 would target magnetic Iron, and use magnetics to pluck it out of the Lunar Regolith Dust.  It is estimated that about .5% of the materials will be magnetic Iron.  However, even if concentrated, it will have other materials bonded to it.  This is actually a good thing.  Some of it would be Magnetite which has some Oxygen in it.  Others may be simply substances that are stuck to small fragments of magnetic Iron.  Base #2 would export this concentrate to the orbital Base #3.  We are also hoping for some kind of a processing of Platinum Family Metals from Base #2 which can be exported after some processing to Base #3.

I am going to set processing for Platinum Family Metals aside for now.  I am not sure if you would be able to use microbes to extract it from it's ores or some other method.

But now for the Iron Concentrate, we will react it with Paraffin imported from Earth and do Pyrolysis in orbit to produce a reduction extracting much of the Oxygen that is bonded to both magnetic Iron and some small amount of non-magnetic Iron that may have come along with the magnetic Iron.  This will produce a reduced concentrate and Water and CO2.  Some Carbon may infiltrate the reduced concentrate.  The water and CO2 can be processed to produce various things, perhaps Methane to refill a Starship.

We will hope to accumulate liquid water in large amounts over time to build a "Water Tank Tars".

Our reduced Iron concentrate then can be processed to produce Iron, and Carbon Steel.  If we import alloy agents, we can make other types of steel.

The Slag can be processed to make things.

One thing I would like produced would be heat shields, using Steel and fibers of Slag.  Putting an ablative layer of slag product over a metal heat shield.

From post #17 of this topic:

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The cylinder is imagined to be a Starship "Locomotive", which is its tanks, engines, and whatever else it needs.  It has multiple tanks so that
it can carry various balances of fluid substances.

It then has a "One Time" heat shield attached to it that was made in orbit from Lunar Materials and some of the Carbon from the Paraffin that was imported.

The desire is to send this back to Earth to do one or more skims of the Earth's atmosphere to achieve a Lower Earth Orbit.

At this "Lower Earth Orbit" what remains of the heat shield is to be reprocessed for the production of alternate resources in orbit of the Earth/Moon locations.  The device may also bring "Platinum Family Metals" back as well.  In some of its tanks it might have extra Oxygen.

The "Locomotive" with heat shield detached will have protected Paraffin blocks added to it's outside.  It may have a lot of extra Methane added to it.  Perhaps to get to Lunar Orbit, it would have 3 tanks of Methane and one tank of Oxygen.

The back and forth of this can be assisted by both electric Rocket and Tars.  If fact TARS that is "Spun Up" by electric rocket propulsions.

Early versions of Tars could include tethers to fling the ship in the direction of intentions.

Some TARS might be powered by an Argon/Xenon mix.  But I am hoping that Lunar Tars can be "Spun-Up" using Neumann Drive or Magdrive.

In making a "Water-Tank-Tars", keep in mind that a great deal of the Mass may come from the Moon.

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At first the metal part of a water TARS could be made from water filled Starship bodies lashed together.  Later we would hope to make suitable metals in orbit of the Moon to construct much larger TARS.

Later we may also hope to get Hydrogen from sources beyond the Earth and Moon.

So, then after the first Lunar TARS is created, we might seek to make more of them at sequentially lower Earth orbits, so that the Locomotives can both be refilled and repeatedly flung up or down in Earth Orbits.

I am hoping that these filling stations will be refilled, by Neuman Drive or MagDrive robots, perhaps using Iron as a propellant.

So, the more TARS you make then less chemical propulsion you need to move the Locomotive around.

And as I have said the heat shields being in a large part of Iron/Steel, may be feedstock at LEO for the movement or resources to these filling stations by a efficient means.

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#38 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-07 12:43:46

In reference to the two prior posts I made today.

"WATER TANK TARS"

I think we could justify bringing Hydrogen from Earth to Orbits, and to join to that Lunar Oxygen.

If you are doing TARS with a big water tank then you can keep doing it over and over again.  You are not expending the Hydrogen unless you get a leak.

I will make a diagram.

I do not show power source, radiator fins, or propulsion for spin in this diagram yet: ZmgtCJ7.png

We can have spin gravity for human and some in a data center.  These areas will be will protected from radiation.  The radiator fins on the outside will be of a chevron nature to give impactor protection.

Spaceships may enter the hub though a tube you eyes are aligned with in this drawing and the spaceships can be inserted into the "Slide Tubes" to give a TARS boost to them, ejecting them to another orbit.

Perhaps to cool the chips heat will pass>Water>CO2 Heat Pump>Water.  The first water being clean, but the 2nd water allowing farming inside the main body of water.

This device might also include refilling functions for propellants.

For power for the TARS, perhaps power would be beamed to this device from non-spinning solar panels.  Maybe it would have a nuclear reactor as an alternative.

So, I think the export of Hydrogen from Earth would be justified due to all the useful functions the water would do, in a repeating fashion.

We also can shade the Earth with these various machines and also solar power stations.

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It could be that the raw solar panels would also be part of Tars, but that a mirror would be used to redirect sunlight to it.

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Baffles might be wanted in the water tank to give it more or less torque.

As a ship slides down a tube the solid structure will transfer spin more readily, but the water might retain its motion.  But baffles would then
alter this so that more momentum comes from the water if you have more baffles.

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To avoid water-hammer, bags of air might help.  I don't think water-hammer will be that much of a problem though.

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Agriculture would likely be chemical and/or artificial light in nature.

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And no! you don't want this thing to freeze.

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#39 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-07 12:19:58

OK, add this to the just prior post: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo … r-AA1PNKJL  Quote:

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Well then can we make them into spin propelled TARS, using Electric Ion Propulsions?

Do it!

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These are the tricks we need for Mars and Venus and other worlds.

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#40 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Genetics » 2025-11-07 12:16:59

I have had a though about Neanderthal genes lingering in the gene pool of current "Humans".

I the case where a renewed ice age would occur, and presuming a loss of technology, a primitive life style returning, could a Neo-Neanderthal condense out of a combination of Homo-Sapiens and Neanderthal genes, were an increasingly Neanderthal resembling Humanoid would emerge?

I suppose that in the future it might be intentionally caused to exist.  But I would be careful not to create things that suffer in life.

I know that not all the Neanderthal genome exists but much of it does.

Also, some genes of Neanderthal have not just been replaced due to an old mixing, but for 50,000 years (approximately), the humans have been evolving, both having Neanderthal, Denisovan, and other additives.  Some genes from 50,000 year ago are perhaps outdated no mater their original source.

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#41 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-07 11:07:42

As far as I am concerned the new awakening of space exhibited by the recent claimed sayings of Elon Musk on behalf of Tesla and SpaceX, are a sort of Para-terraform of the Earth/Moon subsystem.  We can attach a few Near-Earth Objects as well, such as Bennu and Ryugu.  Of course I expect that others including Japan will participate.

I think I want to bring in some materials from another topic: "Index» Interplanetary transportation» Multi-Ship Expeditions, Starboat & Starship, Other."
Post #195 & #196 of that topic: https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 52#p235252

I am also hearing blab about a single raptor engine 3rd stage for Starship which would ride inside the Starship fairings.

I think this block diagram could suggest what you could get out of that, if you made the Starships Expendable/Not-Really, and had 3rd Stages.

I would expect that the Superheavy could be reusable.

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A locomotive could become a depot that is self-propelled.  They could be stacked and used as boosters in LEO or higher as well.  They also might be able to land on the Moon if given legs.

The Fairings could simply pop off of the Locomotives and be joined together to make prescribable space.

The Starboats could be suitable for the Moon or perhaps eventually versions may be able to land on Earth or Mars.

A Starboat might host a one-way probe to other planets and might use the Locomotive as a booster from LEO, to the Moon.  At the Moon, the Locomotive would perhaps detach and brake to orbit or circle around the Moon to go back to Earth, or land on the Moon.  The probe would go it's own way.

And from post #196 for this one:

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The reason to want to capture it to Lower Earth Orbits is to distribute LOX from the Moon, and the heat Shield is a source of resources also as it could be processed into Structure or Propellants.

There is already chatter about metals being placed into the atmosphere by space junk.  I suggest that the Space Junk be removed to LEO uses.

It is possible that by burning a layer off of these heat shields we can cool the atmosphere, but we don't know. that yet.

It can be noticed that the heat shield can be rather large.  The larger it is to some extent the lower the temperatures it will endure.  Except if it has very large mass, in which case it brings energy of inertia and gravitational accelerating with it.

The method to move this engine from Lunar orbit to Lower Earth orbit could also include Neumann Drive or Magdrive methods.

This then moves to include electric rockets.  The stubborn will not want to accept Neumann Drive or MagDrive yet, so let's entertain more conventional Ion Drives until those can be better proven.

From post #4 of this topic, I have entertained a system of concentric orbital refilling stations: https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.ph … 78#p235178
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The diagram suggests Solar Orbits but now let's consider 3 concentric ring orbits of the Earth between the Earth and Moon.

I believe that best case for electric rockets is thought to be 10x (Approximately) that of the best chemical rockets.
To be more realistic, being familiar with how reality actually works, lets expect 5x what the best chemical rockets can produce.  It is an arbitrary number, but I do understand that in real life we do not typically get a "Best Case".

A problem with electric rockets is the inertia of their power plants.  But we are going to hope that we can beam power form relatively stationary power stations to these Electric Ion propellant transfer depots.  The mobile propellant depots will have special tuned solar cells that can receive at about 60% efficiency a tuned beam from a relatively stationary solar power plant in an Earth/Moon orbit.

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If you have two ships, one being from a Higher Earth Orbit and one being from a Lower Earth Orbit, they could both land in the center of a spinning TARS, and be ejected down slides sequentially.

First the one from a higher orbit might be ejected in the direction of a lower orbit, and then as the spinning station would have it's orbit modified, we would want to correct it back again somewhat but releasing the one from a lower orbit to a higher orbit.

The slide thing was given a patent a long time ago.  I do not have the reference at this time.

While it might complicate things, a massive object in orbit such as a power station, data center, or habitat might double as a TARS.

Caliban did introduce us to TARS.

I would prefer an Electric Ion propelled TARS.

So, a mass in space could be spun using Electric Ion and even its power plant is part of the mass that stores energy.

So, the big hope is that this network of "Filling Stations" with TARS, would facilitate the movement of Moon and Earth materials between LEO and the Moon.  And if someone can make a Lunar Mass Driver or Rotavator system that can get materials into Lunar orbit, then all the better.

A TARS could be many things.  A Filling Station?  A big tank of water?  A power station?  Maybe a mix of things.

So, then I do suggest that it be investigated if other electric propulsion methods will work other than say Argon/Xenon.

Neumann Drive, MagDrive.  And then is there a way to simply fling Oxygen at a high speed as a propellant, probably using electric power.

I do not like using Hydrocarbons as propellants more than is necessary.

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#42 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-06 10:41:32

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His calculations are 60's and 70's in the expectoration to rely on Hydrogen or Hydrocarbons or Ammonia as fuels.  I understand that he did not want to rely on speculative propulsion methods such as Neumann Drive or Magdrive.

Propulsion involving the expulsion of Oxygen only are even less understood for practicality.

What I read is that Neumann Drive is better than ion drives that expel noble gasses.  But I will say optimally 10x better than Hydro-Lox.

But I will make an arbitrary reduced claim of 5x as optimum circumstances are unlikely.

MagDrive sounds similar to Neumann Drive, but seems to indicate more thrust available but maybe less efficiency when you have more thrust.

So, I feel that "Reach" will be greater than that projected for Hydro-Lox.

At some point large scale space habitats might be possible.  But what if a Island One  Habitat existed with 10,000 people on it somewhere in the Earth/Moon orbits?  At this moment people like Elon Musk and similar and their companies would likely buy that habitat, paying the 10,000 persons a large amount if they would immigrate to the Earth.

Then the Habitat could be converted into useful space machines such as Data Centers with power devices and radiators, or mirrors, or power satellites of Spacecraft.

So, for the moment large scale space habitats around Earth/Moon might not be a high purpose yet.

But Deimos/Phobos/Mars have a relatively ideal place to begin making habitats in orbit and on Mas itself, perhaps.

As for Lunar Water and CO2, it seems to me that some would be used for propulsions, at least at first to get off of the Moon.  A group might render Bennu, and another group might render Ryugu for agricultural products to bring back to Earth/Moon.

A habitat the supported farming would be less demanding for raw materials than one that would house humans.  Farms in Earth/Moon orbits might be valuable as although most "Staff" in space might be robots, there will be come humans, and also perhaps some tourism.

Some farming on the Moon will be needed as well for the same reason.

Probably Ryugu and Bennu will have some additional substances that would be worth bringing back to Earth/Moon.

In the beginning, well made items such as Starships could be converted into habitats even with spin gravity.

It might be that these could huddle with farms and power satellites, and mirrors.  Although materials to shield habitats would be a one-time cost to get from the Moon or an asteroid, you could make a radiation shield out of humans, technically. 

If you had a habitat that was of a million people, then if they spent all day rotating from the center of the habitat to the edges and back again, then they would each only get a small portion of the radiation while shielding others.  Each only tanking a portion od the dose.

Of course that is a stupid method to protect from space radiation, but it illustrates that things like Data Centers or power Satellites, or other large structures might help shield humans and robots in space as a side effect of their existence.

This is why I have tried to create ideas of "Habitable Radiators" or "Habitable Heat Engines".

At some point, if AI or some other product justifies it it might be practical to combine Earth Hydrogen and Carbon with Lunar Oxygen to make water and CO2 in orbit.

CO2 Heat Pumps can make heat as high as 200 degrees C at this time.  Of course AI would like the cold that would be produced from this.

I you could dump the heat of this into a canister with water in it, then you might support life in the canister of water if the water temperature is not too high.

This radiator process might provide some radiation protection for AI, Robots, and Humans.

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The cylinder does not rotate, but a rotator might be inside of it.  The rotator would be partially protected from much radiation, but not all GCR.  The Rotator might host a small crew of humans who might run robots remotely to maintain the station.

Just one attempt.

Having a pressurized space between two cylinders, allows you to have internal stringers, to join the cylinder that it trying to expand out to the inner cylinder which tries to expand in.

The rather hot to warm water might host some kind of agriculture.

CO2 heat pumps would dump heat into the water and refrigerate the Data Center, "Grey Color".

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#43 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Genetics » 2025-11-05 19:46:27

I was actually groomed at one point to be an office worker in my job in the mines, and also again at my more recent job, but in that case more of a tech almost not union worker.  (I had to be in a union to have that job).

I mention this to temper the impression that I hate white collar workers.  I might dislike some of them but the same is true for other people as well. 

The only bad part of white-collar work was the idea of class structure interfering with upward mobility.

I have thought some more about the small brain homo-sapiens vs. the larger brained homo-neanderthals.  And the Hybrids of that.

We had several era's.  The beginning of civilizations may have more included Neanderthal traits of creativity.  Then the mimics displaced those people.  Mimics are those who can imitate something well enough.  But they cannot as much create something that did not yet exist.  Once the mimics have claimed enough power and wealth, a civilization will fall or become susceptible to a conquest by outsiders.

The invention of Library, made it more possible for Mimics to more completely displace the creative.  The ruling class could gain assistance from the librarians (Priests), and so have powers of the mind that they did not have to work for.  To be such a ruler though you have to be persuasive in language, to get others to do the kind of violence you need to apply in order to stay in power.  So, this creates a sort of "idiot Savant" specialist.  A "Verbal & Violence Idiot Savant".

Inventions such as Library are then held by the ruling class of kings and priests, I suppose.

But the printing press was not extinguished in the west, but was in the Ottoman Empire.  The reformation resulted in the west.

The English grabbed a piece of a church.  Called it Anglican, and behaved quite a lot like the Roman Church.  Lots of blood over all that.
To be in the English gentry, you had to go to the colleges which taught you dead languages, and placed you into the more upper class.
The unwanted were excluded and so then tended to form various protestant sects.  They were not allowed to own the plantations.  So they could be servants or invent the industrial revolution.

This gives a special reference to "Greens".  It is indeed the elites that mostly would like to have us back shaveling pony poop in their plantation barns.  They always hated industry.

But Hydrocarbons loved us Morlocks.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock
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Sadly, the Eloi have not lost the power of speech yet.  If he brings her home she will probably start telling him what to do.   And he might obey.

Anyway we have the internet now which expands things much beyond the printing press.  (Others have said this).

Computers and Robots?  I am not sure how that ends.

Anyway, a Neanderthal Mind inheritor will have the internet to get reference from, and can seek to expand the craft with creativity we might hope.

Now if you look on a map you can see where the poor are.  They are primarily where Library is restricted to the few.  And in some cases all but a few books have been burned.

So here is my complaint.  If a bunch of people want to continue to run about in bed sheets, and play the mimic game with a limited library, are we responsible if they are poor?  If they refuse to modify their cultures to resemble successful cultures with material goods, should they be allowed to jealous of the material goods?  If they refuse to modify their behaviors are the allowed to slander us and claim that we owe them material goods?

I grew up in an era where multiple sources insisted that I was part of various criminal activities that hurt people around the world.  I am not amused at the suffering they inflicted on me.  And I have little sympathy for those mimics who seek to enslave the productive among us.

They need to change their cultures.  The only way they became rich is by the uses of "Verbal and Violence" to confiscate things that the creative had built on their lands.  Granted that is the way of the world.  One group cannot take everything.  It won't be allowed.

But I pronounce myself NOT GUILTY!  And they are GUILTY!

More of us should think this way.

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#44 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-05 19:39:37

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I am guessing they would just expand outward and even to the Moon even with time latency.

There could be a lot of Tesla $$$ in Space and SpaceX $$$ in space.

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#45 Re: Terraformation » The Moon » 2025-11-05 12:02:45

I think that CO2 heat pumps on the Moon may be very important for Data Centers on the Moon.

https://www.youtube.com/@Anthrofuturism claims that heat engines on the Moon are not that good compared to solar panels.

But if you could get solar power and use CO2 heat pumps to make radiators hot, you might produce desired cold for Data Centers.

while solar power might be gotten on the Moon, it is also possible to have power plants in orbits that beam power down to the Moon.  This it seems can be beamed as lasers that point to a tuned solar panel that is not too bad for energy transfer.

But the Moon may provide both energies to run data centers and also to produce cooling by use of heat pumps to rev up the radiators to radiate heat off of the heat exchanger structures.

I think that using heat pumps and sunshades cooling will be available for the purpopse.

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#46 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-05 12:00:35

It seems the Elon Musk is changing his navigation to point more at the Moon and at data centers in space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpp76mV6QTg  Quote:

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#47 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Multi-Ship Expeditions, Starboat & Starship, Other. » 2025-11-05 11:01:59

More from the previous post:

I am also hearing blab about a single raptor engine 3rd stage for Starship which would ride inside the Starship fairings.

I think this block diagram could suggest what you could get out of that, if you made the Starships Expendable/Not-Really, and had 3rd Stages.

I would expect that the Superheavy could be reusable.

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A locomotive could become a depot that is self-propelled.  They could be stacked and used as boosters in LEO or higher as well.  They also might be able to land on the Moon if given legs.

The Fairings could simply pop off of the Locomotives and be joined together to make prescribable space.

The Starboats could be suitable for the Moon or perhaps eventually versions may be able to land on Earth or Mars.

A Starboat might host a one-way probe to other planets and might use the Locomotive as a booster from LEO, to the Moon.  At the Moon, the Locomotive would perhaps detach and brake to orbit or circle around the Moon to go back to Earth, or land on the Moon.  The probe would go it's own way.

The projection for "Expendable" Starship is 250 tons to LEO at this time.

If you could pioneer a Lunar Starboat, and devote 150 Tons to that, then you have 100 more tons that you could devote to other equipment.

In this scheme, you would have 500 extra Tons.  Three hundred for two Lunar Starboats, if you want that.  And 200 for either then Dual Fairings Assembly or the two (Or one) Locomotives.

The dual fairings assembly could get 100 tons of that, to make it more habitable.  As a gravity simulator, it would have up to 1 g at each nose and be able to simulate lesser gravity at other decks closer to the center of spin.  As it is not very cylindrical, I hope it will not have gyroscopic problems with flipping about.

Probably these should be a bit above LEO, to avoid space junk.

On the other hand, if you wanted to use the fairings for propellants for a Neumann Driver or Magdrive you could.  In that case you could shift the 100 tons to some other purpose.

As for the Locomotives, I have some ideas.  For instance one might not be modified very much but reused as a booster. For the other one.
The other one might be strongly modified.  It might have more than two tanks and it might be made to reduce boiloff.

This dual system might allow the built-up Locomotive to be a liquids transport.  To lift off of the Earth, the Starship need the normal Methane and Oxygen tanks.

But to use with the Moon you might want at least 3 tanks, maybe 4 tanks.  So to lift off of Earth two tanks might be for Methane and two for Oxygen.  Of course this will add mass to the Locomotive, but we have budgeted perhaps 50 + 50 = 100 tons for that reason.  I would hope that 50 goes to the new tanks, and 50 goes to boiloff protection.  Plus the Engine may need legs if it is to repeatedly land on the Moon.

To land and lift off from the Moon, the Locomotive may only need 1 Methane Tank and 1 Oxygen tank.  That would leave one or two tanks unused.  In one possibility, the one or two tanks would carry Methane down to the Moons surface.  After good purging the one or two tanks could bring Lunar Oxygen up to Lunar Orbit.

Methane brought down could be used not only to refill rockets but in processing metals like Iron from Lunar Regolith.

The Carbon could become a working gas for heat pumps or maybe even heat engines (Probably not heat engines), and the Hydrogen could be used repeatedly to extract Oxygen from Iron, and to so produce Iron.

Yes, you are intending to get water and even CO2 from the shadowed craters, but this starts the process up before you can hatch that chicken from your egg.

And the Locomotive can be used to transport fluids to other locations on the Moon such as craters that may have platinum family metals you want to mine.

These things might also transport a mix of Argon with a little Xenon, for electric propulsions.

On the Moon you might build Ablative Heat Shields to put on these Locomotives.  One time use, simple.

Although you could then land the Locomotives on to Earth, I would prefer to also have the option to guide them into a lower Earth orbit .

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The reason to want to capture it to Lower Earth Orbits is to distribute LOX from the Moon, and the heat Shield is a source of resources also as it could be processed into Structure or Propellants.

There is already chatter about metals being placed into the atmosphere by space junk.  I suggest that the Space Junk be removed to LEO uses.

It is possible that by burning a layer off of these heat shields we can cool the atmosphere, but we don't know. that yet.

It can be noticed that the heat shield can be rather large.  The larger it is to some extent the lower the temperatures it will endure.  Except if it has very large mass, in which case it brings energy of inertia and gravitational accelerating with it.

The method to move this engine from Lunar orbit to Lower Earth orbit could also include Neumann Drive or Magdrive methods.

So prior to implementing something like a mass driver on the Moon, I hope for gainful extraction of usable mass from the Moon.

I guess we will find out if we are still here in the future.

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#48 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Genetics » 2025-11-04 22:44:45

This video pleases me, but I feel we need to be careful to only consider it a possible truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3iitgikldA
Quote:

Archaeologists Just Discovered Why the Neanderthals Really Disappeared

Human Evolution Archive

The printing press and the internet may have saved us from the evil of the librarians who exercise power though the selective distribution of the wealth of records.

The Homo Sapiens might chant mindlessly echo of original thoughts, but those with remnants of cousins may have had the ability of building the scaffolds that allowed the cathedrals that the chanting occurs in.

The simplified mind displaces the seed of the originators and leaves only mimics of mind.

I believe that the collapse of empires may rest on this process.

The satanic nature of domination is what drives this.

A curious situation might have occurred if Neanderthals could have consulted the internet.  By then having means of expanded communion, and having methods to share information perhaps they would have survived better.

The contest of efficiency vs. capability.  But if you are capable and yet then become efficient you are improved.  If you become efficient by eliminating capability, then though you may have a satanic win, you are a diminished creature.

Nature does not weep for the dead, it only eats them and provides for new patterns, maybe not intelligent ones.

The partially intentional crimes of the librarians are in not sharing.  But the printing press and the internet bypass their power.

Most of the genome of the Neanderthals apparently exists somewhere on the planet still.  Some in Europe, and even more in India, and other places as well.

It is my guess that Homo Sapiens perhaps took in lost Neanderthal girl children.  Or maybe kept them after murdering the men.
Probably they were mistreated but somehow did have children with the Homo Sapiens males.

But it could have been that Neanderthal females could bear half breed children, and Homo Sapiens could not.  If not genetically determined, it could have been that the Neanderthal babies had too big of heads for the Homo Sapiens females pelvises.

Colleges are the same stupid attempt for a ruling class of mimics to hold a source of knowledge from the workers they seek to dominate.  But the internet says "NO!".

The name of the game is to put dominators over the population.  Then sort the school children into clerks and jerks vs. future servants.

Take the creative inventions and add them to the library which is only selectively available.

A bit dark but maybe true.

The ruling class then puts the Clerks and Jerks into so called white collar jobs, and then they are used to dominate the people who use eyes and hands.

But then the printing press, computers, and robots.

Can't be sure how it ends but it amuses me that the demonic a-holes have their work cut out for them to keep this as they prefer it.  The human race breading for smaller brains all the time.

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#49 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Multi-Ship Expeditions, Starboat & Starship, Other. » 2025-11-04 10:10:49

Some blab about drone ships: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE
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Elon Musk's INSANE Solution for Starship's 10X Problem...MASSIVE 200-Meter Ships Coming!
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I am guessing that for Superheavy, drone ships could increase payload 20% to 25% maybe.
I am not sure that it is particularly as useful for Starship.  Starship technically could land on enhanced peg-legs near the launch site.
It if was an orbital Starship, then landing downrange is not so much of an advantage.

I think that it might be possible to make a "Catch-Only" land-based tower as well.  It would not need propellant systems, and could be perhaps half as high???

But yes, a sea-launch capability from the Equator would eventually become very valuable as well.

I think that people forget as well that the ships using raptor engines can do a true hover.  Falcon 9 does a "Hover-Slam".


I am also hearing blab about a single raptor engine 3rd stage for Starship which would ride inside the Starship fairings.

I think this block diagram could suggest what you could get out of that, if you made the Starships Expendable/Not-Really, and had 3rd Stages.

I would expect that the Superheavy could be reusable.

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A locomotive could become a depot that is self-propelled.  They could be stacked and used as boosters in LEO or higher as well.  They also might be able to land on the Moon if given legs.

The Fairings could simply pop off of the Locomotives and be joined together to make prescribable space.

The Starboats could be suitable for the Moon or perhaps eventually versions may be able to land on Earth or Mars.

A Starboat might host a one-way probe to other planets and might use the Locomotive as a booster from LEO, to the Moon.  At the Moon, the Locomotive would perhaps detach and brake to orbit or circle around the Moon to go back to Earth, or land on the Moon.  The probe would go it's own way.

Honestly I think it may be that NASA is worried at how much the Starship system will be able to do, when it is fully fledged.

We should worry also that there could be some intention to be careless, so that a death could excuse a posture of recapture of the space activities and the crippling of them.  There is a lot of money interest in these things.

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I guess I will piggy-back this to here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo … r-AA1Pr3XW  Quote:

Scientists create metal that won’t melt
Story by Alexander Clark • 5d •
3 min read

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In a groundbreaking development, scientists have created a superalloy that remains unmelted under extreme temperatures, as announced on October 23, 2025. This innovative material is poised to revolutionize energy production by enhancing the efficiency and durability of turbines and jet engines. By withstanding conditions that would typically destroy conventional alloys, this superalloy addresses long-standing challenges in high-heat environments, potentially transforming machinery across various industries.

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Mechanisms Behind Heat Resistance
The scientific principles enabling the superalloy to resist melting are rooted in enhanced atomic bonding. This bonding prevents phase changes under heat, allowing the material to maintain its structure even at elevated temperatures. The design of the alloy also counters oxidation and deformation, which are common challenges faced by materials exposed to high heat. This resistance to environmental degradation underscores the alloy’s revolutionary potential in energy applications.

Laboratory demonstrations have showcased the superalloy’s ability to withstand prolonged exposure to intense heat without failure. These demonstrations provide tangible evidence of the material’s robustness, highlighting its suitability for use in environments where conventional alloys would falter. By maintaining its integrity under such conditions, the superalloy opens new possibilities for energy production and industrial applications.

They don't give a temperature limit though sadly.  Of course, I am hoping that a spacecraft may be abel to use it.

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#50 Re: Terraformation » Solar Reflections from Orbits to a Worlds Dark Spots, Mega Structures » 2025-11-02 21:54:06

Bags of rocks tied together into spheres, or some other shape, I suppose that they could be called "Rock Shells".

From post #6 & #8:

OK a ring or "Regolith Pearls" then, orbiting 433 Eros: T5c0pmS.png

A plurality of Starships could be mounted together into an initial synthetic gravity machine(s)

I feel that this is a precursor to the possibility of building space habitats that are more extensive, such as similar to "Island One" and "O'Neill Cylinders".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder
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The fact that such concepts came from university types shows that they are not troglodytes that get their hands dirty.  They have a chicken but no egg.  That is I don't see how they will fill this dream from Moon materials only.

But Mars/Phobos/Deimos is almost perfect for a startup.

At first built from components from Earth such as Starships.  Those to be sheltered inside of "Primitive" sheltering methods.

The next step would be to develop methods to make metal sheets in orbit and join them together.  Also to make ceramic type objects.
Probably even then "Rock Bag shelter would be wanted.  Then maybe you could start making more humble habitats such as a modified "Island One".

A string of rock bag shelters could house two or more rotators, which may rotate counter to each other.

If you want sunrooms and greenhouses those are possible but more vulnerable to the hostility of the space environments.

I think it is typical for Americans usually to think in "One Layer" for a wall.  But harsh environments benefit from "multi-layering".

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And yes, my idea, at least in part, descends from this idea: https://newatlas.com/space/space-habitat-ring-plan/
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I prefer the idea of nibbling on Phobos and Deimos and perhaps other rubble piles.  What we see on the surface of a rubble asteroid may not be the same as what is in the interior.  I am inclined to think that there are big slabs of rock inside.

And if there were ice in the interior of Phobos and Deimos we do not what to prematurely expose them.

I think we need to start small scale.  Leave the slabs or work with them, extract and process the fines, and sort the cobble-rocks and put them into rock bags.  Join the "Rock-Bags" into crude shelters for protection of fine equipment and humans.

The Cobble-Rocks can be examined to detect special ones, per minerals, and also source.  Science might want objects that were captured from a young Mars, or from various asteroids over the history of these moons.

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