/sci/ - Science & Math

What would you take to your generation ship?

What sort of items would you put in your generation ship, which is travelling a distance of 4 light years.

Let's assume that it can gain 1% of ly speed

Earth along with all humanity will be destroyed in the next 100 years.
It is up to /sci/ to design a colony ship that will take small amount of humans to the next possibly inhabitable planet.

So, how do you do it /sci/?

>>4911274

>my opinion is that the grandiose orbital colony schemes are at least as goofy as terraforming Mars.

Well it's clear that you haven't thought about this at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Three

Orbital colonies don't have to deal with:
Gravity wells, which double the cost of a mars colony compared to a space colony
Solar radiation (magnetic shielding)
adverse weather conditions

While any effort to terraform mars will have the nigh-impossible task of establishing a magnetic field half the size of the earth's, any o'niell cylinder will be much easier to shield. You can grow food and everything.

You have to be pragmatic. You have to think not what is most romantic, but what is cheapest? It costs a miniscule fraction of the price to move mass around in space compared to moving it in and out of a gravity well.

Really, colonizing and terraforming mars is as likely as us terraforming the antarctic just for the fun of it.

Is there some sort of hidden message in PI, or the mandlebrot set etc?

If you wanted to leave some message in the laws of physics where would you put it? How likely is it that there actually is some hidden message in something strange like math ?

The largest possible form of VLRHSH is called an "Oneill cylinder".

Proposal – building a VLRHSH, capable of housing a population in excess of 100 people, and having an internal gravity greater than <span class="math">.5g[/spoiler], should be the primary goal of all space agencies of national or international standing.

>>4610413

it's quite possible, but how likely?

unlikely enough to be worth the effort?

Are O'Neill cylinders actually a viable engineering project assuming the necessary funds were available?

Are O'Neil cylinders possible without any magic material science advancements? Is money the only limiting factor?

apparently this board cant handle wikipedia sized crab nebulae

OR fuckin great huge shots of mars from the rover

dammit, I have so many great space shots, but the only board that can take em is /hr/

Are mega structures in space like the O'Neill cylinder actually possible?

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>>2455982

Hay guise.

So, /sci/, how does Mitrochodrial Complex I transfer four protons to the inter-membrane space when transfering electrons to uniquinone.

I figured if anyone would know it'd be you.

If we are all the children of god, and god sent his only son to die for our sins, are we all lesbians?

>>1646847
THIS

Put a Rama (O'Neill cylinder) at a Lagrangian point all problems solved, and you don't need to invent Scrith or what not.

Has none of /sci/ ever watched Gundam???

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