… around the sun.
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neidu2@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Just get it over with and start building an equatorial particle collider already.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
neidu2@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Free power as well. I see no downside to this.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Accidentally accelerates the whole mass of the sun in a fragile ring of superheated plasma at ridiculous speeds.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
uis@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Capitalism. Privatization of Sun.
DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 5 months ago
A gaggle of particle physicists standing in a circle chanting “RING! WORLD! RING! WORLD!”
neidu2@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Surely the collective noun for a group of particle physicists has to be A Theory.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Orbital particle collider or bust
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The GEO Particle Collider.
pelya@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s what the asteroid belt is for!
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just put it in orbit! Let’s commit and put a ring on this planet!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Skip that. Put it in orbit and make it double as a solar collector array and beam the extra energy back down.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honest question could this be feasible with a few dozen satellites positioned above the Van Allen Belts to accelerate particles, and just letting the particles raw dog the solar wind and ride around Earth’s gravity well between each acceleration satellite? Cause that would be badass
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Unironical support
Peter_Arbeitslos@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Can we get a collider between moon an earth? I know, a lot of particles out there, but if we isolate it?
Routhinator@startrek.website 5 months ago
We currently can’t block enough radiation to make space travel safe for humans in long term situations unless we are blessed with the calmest of space weather based on some recent news about the long term effects on the kidneys in the conditions of space travel (source, I believe the research still needs to be corroborated phys.org/…/2024-06-astronauts-kidneys-survive-rou… )
We’re still not at the Star Trek radiation screen level, unfortunately. So I’m not confident we can isolate this well enough. Earths magnetic field and atmosphere do a lot of work for us we still cannot replicate their function well enough to make it safe for humans long term. And this is a project that was put underground because it was more sensitive than humans.
onion@feddit.de 5 months ago
I think we could easily shield this, it would just be stupendously expensive to bring all that lead up there
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Put one of them magnet floating trains on top please.
The equator express.
uis@lemm.ee 5 months ago
How about refular trains?