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[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I figured XD
Also after taking two engineering courses and a physics class (which made me use both systems). I can say that without a single doubt no matter what metric is so much better

[GiglameshDespair]

Also, Cryxis, have you looked at O'Neill cylinders as an idea for space habitats that use centrifugal force to make gravity?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

What part of it? Using two cylinders rotating opposite eachother or keeping the whole thing in a single tube instead of overlapping rings?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Another question just came to me, could you use a traditional reactor/turbine system in zero gravity?

[MonkeyHead]

Another question just came to me, could you use a traditional reactor/turbine system in zero gravity?

Not if it relies on convection effects, no.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Would it work under the effects of artificial gravity?

[Dirst]

Would it work under the effects of artificial gravity?

You wouldn't want something important to rely on the rotating sections actually rotating.  Especially not if it is somehow involved in generating the power for rotation.

"Okay, the manual says to grab the Manual Rotation Handle and rotate the section three full turns."

[MonkeyHead]

You would be better off using a pump driven system rather than one relying on convection.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Alright next question how would you use these reactors to generate energy in zero gravity? As far as I can tell a turbine wouldn't be usable correct?


Also with the previous thought there would be multiple reactors and the system would be "spun" prior to entering space... Nope that probably wouldn't be a good idea either nevermind

[MonkeyHead]

No, a turbine would be fine, if you could build a pressure gradient (in some way, maybe via clever valves and compression/cooling...) enough to actually spin it.

Alternatively, you could go with radioisotope thermoelectric generators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator . Far less mucking around with mechanical bits.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

That's defiantly something to consider

Thank you

[TheBiggerFish]

@Cryxis:Definitely, you mean?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Yes
Sorry auto correct sucks

[Tack]

Spoiler: Another funny little story idea: (click to show/hide)

Year 22~~ rocks around, time travel gets invented, and naturally is also discovered by all of the governments and corporations which you Don't want time travelling.
So, "Chrono-terrorism" has a brief hike, with billions of dollars going into every different slice of the world sending agents back to carve out their own little paradise.
None of them come back. The initial idea is that they failed, got shot by the SS with the rest of the would-be saboteurs, but when the history books adamantly refuse to show Nazis having suddenly jumped to laser technology, they look elsewhere.

Eventually, some very well-paid men with pocket calculators deduce that the universe doesn't care. The would-be time travellers drop the 1939 edition of Nature on the desk of the head Japanese scientists, the whole Second World War takes a different turn, and a pocket universe is formed. However, it is so tiny, so insignificant and meaningless, that the universe just fixes it. Four billion dead insects on one little blue marble in one bag of marbles in the big box of bags of marbles. A paradox so paltry that the big Rule can just scrub out the errant speck of dust, and bring that universe back into the fold.

So, the hook of the story begins a few years after this revelation. A very intelligent, very ruthless cookie manages to make waves, cause a calamity large enough that the universe sits up and takes notice.
Somewhere, billions of years ago in the great cosmic uncertainty- a thing happens.
A detonation, an implosion, a trivial rewrite of physics, and a certain section of space disappears. It's only a few galaxies, and beyond the observable universe, inconsequentially distant from all human life. However, it's huge. A few bags missing is apparently large enough.

Oh, and kid Deepthroat is throttled in an alley somewhere.

So, wondering whether the story should focus on people trying to reverse the dystopia, or just have it as an overly-complicated excuse for "and then the aliens attacked".

[Parsely]

Spoiler: Another funny little story idea: (click to show/hide)

Year 22~~ rocks around, time travel gets invented, and naturally is also discovered by all of the governments and corporations which you Don't want time travelling.
So, "Chrono-terrorism" has a brief hike, with billions of dollars going into every different slice of the world sending agents back to carve out their own little paradise.
None of them come back. The initial idea is that they failed, got shot by the SS with the rest of the would-be saboteurs, but when the history books adamantly refuse to show Nazis having suddenly jumped to laser technology, they look elsewhere.

Eventually, some very well-paid men with pocket calculators deduce that the universe doesn't care. The would-be time travellers drop the 1939 edition of Nature on the desk of the head Japanese scientists, the whole Second World War takes a different turn, and a pocket universe is formed. However, it is so tiny, so insignificant and meaningless, that the universe just fixes it. Four billion dead insects on one little blue marble in one bag of marbles in the big box of bags of marbles. A paradox so paltry that the big Rule can just scrub out the errant speck of dust, and bring that universe back into the fold.

So, the hook of the story begins a few years after this revelation. A very intelligent, very ruthless cookie manages to make waves, cause a calamity large enough that the universe sits up and takes notice.
Somewhere, billions of years ago in the great cosmic uncertainty- a thing happens.
A detonation, an implosion, a trivial rewrite of physics, and a certain section of space disappears. It's only a few galaxies, and beyond the observable universe, inconsequentially distant from all human life. However, it's huge. A few bags missing is apparently large enough.

Oh, and kid Deepthroat is throttled in an alley somewhere.

So, wondering whether the story should focus on people trying to reverse the dystopia, or just have it as an overly-complicated excuse for "and then the aliens attacked".

Just keep it about the cookie. Have the rest of humanity be noticeably in the background but mostly tell us about this cookie, and keep it over the top, and you will write a cult hit.