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So... like a composite image but not?

@PeterDonis - Colour me surprised; I was thinking it might be a composite image - the thin crescent and some glow further out indicating...

Yes. That's because that version of the photo was put through an enhancement algorithm to brighten the night side. Here's what it...

You sure the sun is behind the Earth in this pic? Remarkable colour photography of night-side if that is the case. More usually we would...

Not sure, but it does seem like Lang's lay is used primarily in wire ropes rather than fibre ropes. I think fibre ropes would be...

The planet is VERY large and over very long periods of time - hundreds of millions of years - meteors will hit in all kinds of places...

@DaveC426913 I thought SFFWorld did - a few years since I visited - but when I looked to check I didn't find it. I did visit a couple...

YASID - Yet Another Story ID - is common usage on forums dedicated to fiction, sometimes having its own dedicated thread.

I would guess that in untwisting the rope you are adding twist to the individual strands. I bet it doesn't happen if you comb it, i.e...

Twisted fibre type ropes usually have three smaller twines (fibres twisted together) combined by twisting in the opposite direction -...

@AI_ It is possible that flywheel storage will emerge as the superior option; predicting the future is hard. Nuclear is high on the...

Wouldn't the Coriolis Effect for a person walking on the inside of a centrifuge be between head and feet? Or flying, between their axis...

Which is not as much as I would have expected. Also I would expect higher 'dry' mass for a nuclear rocket, so less than twice for...

I expect we will see mobile emergency power systems (big batteries) adopted by emergency services - oversized onboard batteries, 'slide...

Good point about radiation shielding. Except I think that, along with the dire absence of commercially exploitable opportunities, it...