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For Void re Artificial Womb ...
Thank you for adding new reports to your important topic:
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For Void re heating ship bottoms to reduce viscosity
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This is an interesting idea. I hope you will do more with it.
Your AI friend might be able to run some numbers to see if it would make a useful difference.
Ships by the many thousands are likely to be in normal service around the world. They all must generate heat to produce power, and lf the energy consumed is likely to reach 30% or so efficiency of motion, then that 70% difference likely goes into the atmosphere right now.
The plumbing required to route hot water around the hull will add greatly to the cost of the ship.
A builder would need to balance costs of installation and maintenance of a system to deliver waste heat to the ocean instead of to the atmosphere against any benefits.
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For Void re interesting links ...
You and Calliban are doing the heavy lifting right now, while we wait for SpaceNut to figure out how to attract and retain more participants in the forum.
Thanks for the amusing comment on the idea of just a few people on the Moon so don't grow anything.
Whoever wrote that is stuck in a 15th Century mindset. Thankfully we have people like you and Calliban to take a more optimistic view. Science fiction writers have filled the Moon, Mars and many other places with plenty of people (and aliens), so we do have the expansionist view as an alternative.
The next few years should be interesting, if we (humans) can figure out how to put evil into a jug and keep it there.
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For Void re post in Starfall topic ...
In a recent topic, in June of 2026, you introduced an idea I have not see before: using Lunar material for heat shields.
This may well have been considered and perhaps even studied.
I had a vision of meteors streaking across the sky, and many of them reach the ground. The atoms which are ablated become part of the mix of material in the atmosphere, and perhaps water will eventually collect around some of those particles, leading to welcome rain in some areas, and less welcome in others.
If we are lucky, perhaps a member who knows about such matters will consider it, and more importantly, share with the forum what might be possible and even what might be practical.
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For Void ....
GW Johnson took a look at your heatshields from Lunar regolith idea...
The result was not encouraging ... Please ask your AI friend to help you show why that is a good idea.
You have unlimited solar power available to make anything you want to make out of Lunar Regolith. The issue is time. GW Johnson appears to believe that carbon is required to make a decent heat shield. I submit for your consideration that perhaps humans are using carbon because we have so much of it, and it never occurred to anyone to try anything else.
Please do NOT take this feedback as directed at you personally, as you so often do.
This feedback is NOT about you personally! It is about an idea you launched into the cosmos! Please let go of the idea and let it sink or swim on it's own!
If the idea is good your AI friend will be able to show it's value. It the idea is terrible, your AI friend should be able to render that judgement.
Either way, the NewMars audience is what matters! We have the opportunity to bring value to our readers, and that includes exposure to good ideas or to bad ones that should be avoided.
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For Void... just FYI ....
I've been attempting to bring new members into the forum. Today I extended the invitation once again, and the recipient is likely to be reviewing the web site to see if is is suitable for elementary and junior high aged students. We've been operating with a very relaxed atmosphere here, so occasionally old time members may say things that they do not realize would be concerning to parents. I'm sure you won't have a problem, but I thought it might be a good idea to let you know the forum will be under review.
The intention here is to attempt to build up an audience for GW Johnson's class material on elementary ellipses, which is precursor to study of spacecraft navigation.
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