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The corona of a star might have an extremely high temperature, but the density will be very low. Most of the thermal load on the shield will come from the star's usual light, which comes from the photosphere. With the high temperature, the corona will provide a lot of high energy particles which wil...

Why not? There was a Beowulf movie that took place in a post-apocalyptic future. Just don't make it that stupid.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120604/?ref_=nv_sr_3
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/beowulf/

Nikola Tesla?
Dmitri Mendeleev? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev He published that the known elements have many similar properties, and that more are waiting to be discovered.
Orwell? Did he imagine fucked up societies, or... did he know too much about them?

Forget infrastructure. Try farming when you can't reach the tip of your grains, [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxV7gRa2IdA[/youtube] rice paddies are a drowning hazard "Amphibious" combine harvesters and that apple tree might as well be a mountain. Lots of climbing and ropes. Or...

In Babylon 5, the Third Space aliens use energy shields. One site says that the shields don't work against lasers. http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Thirdspace_Alien http://efni.org/Damocles1.htm (how canon is this? Is this fanfic or EU material?) I recall reading many years ago about a synthetic cryst...

Now I understand why access to scientific journals and publications is limited. Maybe people don't want serious publications to be shared, reshared and retweeted to oblivion and misinterpreted by everyone.

Humans find the very "alien" affairs of animals interesting http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765725/?ref_=nv_sr_2 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MeerkatManor I think intelligent beings from any species could find human art interesting. Even a murder story. "Who killed that s...

On Earth dogs have a problem viewing television. If the frame rate is too low they fail to see it as a film and instead see it as a series of flashing images without continuity. There is also the fact that dogs only have two cones in their eyes while humans have three. This results in dogs seeing r...

Another concern in low-pressure environment would be the boiling point of water. It is well known that water boils under lower temperature at lower pressures and, since all your body liquids are mostly water, you would not normally want them to boil under ambient conditions. At atmospheric pressure...

Something that big, it would have so much latent heat due to it's size...would it even be possible for stable (solid) crust to form? What if the solid crust is very thin and the planet is more like a super-Io than a super-Earth? :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Earth#Geologic_activity http://e...

(Posted here because I'm not allowed to edit to main post anymore :( ) If the diameter is 30000 km and the mass is 17 Earth masses, then the surface gravity is about 30.52 m·s −2 , (3.1 times the gravity of Earth) and the density is about 7280 kg/m 3 . This is higher than Earth's density, but I'm no...

The planet is very hot, and the gravity must be horrible http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2014-14 Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/274nv4/astronomers_find_a_new_type_of_planet_the/ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/hcfa-afa053014.php Reddit discussion: http://w...

I forgot a few things...

A computer center, 45 solar masses
A galaxy meets a mobile galaxy. And I thought that the Magog World Ship was the biggest wank.
Factories

Linkage Not bad. When is big too big? I mean take a look at that list and it seems as though everyone is in a race to write the biggest ship into existence. As a wannabe Sci-fi writer myself I sometimes wonder just how far can you plausibly go before things start to get absurd. Well... These are ab...

My problem has apparently been solved - after about a week, which I found unusually long.

Note to moderator: the thread is now hopefully obsolete.

Lonestar wrote:Why the heck do you think that this board is the place to ask?

Nothing worked so far. Maybe someone knows someone on that board? Maybe the admin knows something about alternatehistory.com's admin?

BTW this is the off-topic section

Hello all, I know this is the wrong place, but I didn't get any reply in several days. No replies to an email, no reply after using the contact form, nothing - and couldn't post in their forums, because the registration doesn't work. Is it normal that the administrator of such a large forum goes on ...