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[MattBaker]

I don't have any idea where else to put this so I'll continue wasting space in the RCT, hooray!

I think everybody might agree that you need some kind of shielding-dome-thingy for a Moon/Mars base either for the atmosphere or against the radiation.
Now I was wondering: It'd be a nice idea to create the needed material for that dome-like structure on the planet itself instead of bringing it all the way from Earth because of mass, volume, extra-terrestrial industry sounds awesome.
Now you're basically able to create glass out of any material, so could you produce class by bringing some kind of furnace to the Moon for example, fill it up with a bit of lunar soil, produce glass and use that as a building material.
Also, does glass even work as a shielding material against radiation? I don't think so, which looks like a major flaw of that plan. But other materials are hard to find like acrylic glass (except if there are oil deposits on Mars which isn't totally impossible AFAIK).
But if it would work: What would be the easiest way to get power for that furnace, solar energy, RTGs? Or would it even be profitable to mine the Helium-3 or extract methane out of Mars' atmosphere and use it as an energy source?

*totally serious spaceflight topic in the RTC, like a boss*

 

[Spacethingy]

...serious spaceflight topic in the RTC...

Threads have been started over less, sounds like an interesting discussion to me.

Random moan: having spent several hours getting CUPS to work, then trying to find drivers for my new printer that actually work, then trying to refresh my memory on how Linux groups work, my printer runs out of ink. CUPS/my printer no longer work with the various ink-monitoring tools out there.

*Sigh*, back to Windows... :lol:

 

[mojoey]

The longest word in active use in German language is no more.

RIP "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz".

Gesundheit.

 

[TMac3000]

Now you're basically able to create glass out of any material, so could you produce class by bringing some kind of furnace to the Moon for example, fill it up with a bit of lunar soil, produce glass and use that as a building material.

Minecraft on the moon FTW!

 

[Scruce]

Anyone else going to try and catch the ATV's visible path? 01:46 and 01:49 CEST on the night of the 5th/6th of June.

http://blogs.esa.int/atv/2013/06/03/finding-atv-in-the-sky-ground-track-sky-chart/

 

[Urwumpe]

Anyone else going to try and catch the ATV's visible path? 01:46 and 01:49 CEST on the night of the 5th/6th of June.

http://blogs.esa.int/atv/2013/06/03/finding-atv-in-the-sky-ground-track-sky-chart/

Too late for me that night.

 

[jedidia]

Now you're basically able to create glass out of any material, so could you produce class by bringing some kind of furnace to the Moon

So instead of lightweight spaceage materials, you're sending up heavy industrial machinery?

The cool thing with having no atmosphere is that you don't need any structure that could actually support weight. All you have to do is blow it up (no, not the michael bay way). So some high-tech foil for radiation shielding, with a Kevlar layer thrown in, would seem like the best way to go. I don't think we have quite such a foil yet, but it sound easier and safer than establishing a glass-blowing sweatshop on the moon... :shifty:

 

[dgatsoulis]

The longest word in active use in German language is no more.

RIP "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz".

Why is it no more? also, 63 letters? meh.


"λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων".

 

[Urwumpe]

Why is it no more? also, 63 letters? meh.

The law that this word represented was replaced by a new law with a different name. Now the title is a short story summarizing the content:

Landesverordnung über die Zuständigkeiten für die Überwachung der Rind- und Kalbfleischetikettierung

"State act about the responsibilities for the supervision of beef and veal labelling"

But the word never made it into the Duden dictionary anyway, because while it was significant enough for researchers, it wasn't important enough for appearing in a dictionary. There the longest word is:

"Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversichung"

(Automobile liability insurance)

 

[MattBaker]

So instead of lightweight spaceage materials, you're sending up heavy industrial machinery?

Who says it has to be heavy? I think you should be able to get the job done with something not heavier than a few tons which could then produce endless amounts of building material as long as it has fuel.

 

[mojoey]

The law that this word represented was replaced by a new law with a different name. Now the title is a short story summarizing the content:

Landesverordnung über die Zuständigkeiten für die Überwachung der Rind- und Kalbfleischetikettierung

"State act about the responsibilities for the supervision of beef and veal labelling"

But the word never made it into the Duden dictionary anyway, because while it was significant enough for researchers, it wasn't important enough for appearing in a dictionary. There the longest word is:

"Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversichung"

(Automobile liability insurance)

. That. I thought English had some weird ass words, but daaaaamn.

 

[Kyle]

By "all the stormtroopers" I don't mean "all the stormtroopers in the galaxy". I mean all the defeated stormtroopers on Endor who are at the mercy of the Ewoks.

What you didn't see all the helmets and bones that they were dancing with at the end of Return of the Jedi? :lol:

 

[Artlav]

. That. I thought English had some weird ass words, but daaaaamn.

Not as epic as german, but regular russian words when transliterated into the latin alphabet can produce quite a tongue-twister.

Classic example - zaschischayuschikhsya, those who defend themselves.

By the legend, Lewis Carroll once transliterated it even harder - zashtsheeshtshayoyshtsheekhsya, but that's squeezing every syllable like you'd being paid by the letter, and was likely made up for comedic value.

 

[Scav]

Not as epic as german, but regular russian words when transliterated into the latin alphabet can produce quite a tongue-twister.

True, but let's be honest here -- the entire Russian language is not only a tongue-twister, but a mind-twister as well.

 

[mojoey]

True, but let's be honest here -- the entire Russian language is not only a tongue-twister, but a mind-twister as well.

What do you think vodka is for? Seriously, Russian is like Waffle House, they both rely on drunks to stay relevant.

 

[TMac3000]

Russian isn't so difficult to read--in Russian of course. Translating it into English is another matter entirely.

 

[Artlav]

Sure, the Cyrillic alphabet was designed explicitly and specifically for the language, you read and write as you hear it, with a few rules, and a handful of exceptions.
Modern Latin one fit it even worse than it fit English.

For example, Serbian, a sister language, is easily readable and somewhat comprehensible without advance knowledge when it's written in Cyrillic, like they do in Serbia, but is barely comprehensible or recognizable when written in a Latin variation, like they do in Montenegro.

So, alphabet matters a lot.

 

[Loru]

I got it other way around. I can understand much of Russian spoken or written in Latin alphabeth but "decoding" cyrilic is painfully slow for me.

 

[sorindafabico]

 

[Evil_Onyx]

sorindafabico Ive been saying this for years, footballers (soccer to some) are wimps. bring in a rule that says a team looses a point, for every time a player goes down and does not require a fast trip to the nearest A&E.