Maximum Jailbreak
Maximum Jailbreak Ideas
I'm super excited for Maximum Jailbreak! It's such a great idea and I can really see a firm reader base and community forming around it.
Some feature...
general
1-Megawatt All-magnet Genset, 100% Duty-cycle, Service for 50-years.
TecnoKontrol (http://www.technokontrol.com/en/current-projects/generator.php) A megawatt all-magnet, "no-spark" genset, service life 50-years, mine for Peregrine 1500w 81mm dia x 42mm, 2.1kg ...
Coral
Coral Meeting Follow-Ups
This thread will hold all of the follow up messages from our previous Coral Meeting, so that everyone can access it. Feel free to reply to anything discussed in them, and if you have any questions this is the place to ask as well.
Meeting videos and minutes can be accessed in [our meeting arch...
Building Blocks
Alternative power generation and storage
Solar PV is the most common power generation method in space, and chemical batteries are the most common power storage method in space. Let's discuss other possible means of generating and storing power for spacecraft and their payloads.
Building Blocks
Proposal: Engineering Plants For Vertical Farms Feasibility Study
Engineering Plants For Vertical Farms Feasibility Study
Vertical farming with hydroponics offers a precise way to deliver scarce nutrients and water to plants in a way that uses more of the available space in an enclosed area. These features seem to make vertical hydroponic farming a perfect ...
Martian Spring
Giving Mars a magnetosphere might be doable near-term
I ran across this (https://medium.com/our-space/an-artificial-martian-magnetosphere-fd3803ea600c) blog post, which presented a design for a spacecraft capable of generating a magnetic field big enough to protect all of Mars from solar particle radiation. The design uses a 415 megawatt nuclear ...
Coral
Discussion topics for Coral meeting
Let's use this post to propose topics for next week's meeting. We can also begin discussion right here!
general
openstreetmaps.org for Mars
What would openstreetmaps.org for Mars look like?
Openstreetmaps.org allows regular people to help build a map of every place on earth. It is a big editing toolbox that allows you to position roads, paths, buildings, and landmarks. If the same type of tool was available for Mars, what types of...
Building Blocks
Proposal: Low Mass Boring Object (LMBO) How low can you go?
There may be many benefits to boring holes and filling them with inflatable structures. To make this style of space architecture feasible we need a boring machine that can be realistically transported, maintained, and operated in space environments.
I'm proposing that we:
Explore which ...
Titanium Shores
Role Playing In the Model City
I'd like to make a suggestion for the model city. Perhaps we could enlist experts in role playing game design to create a role playing strategy for the participants in the model city to explore political, social, cultural and every other type of scenario. It could be a fun, productive experience...