From: Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com>
To: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Starlink] Re: AI IN SPACE: Post from Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:26:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbf3f344-fbaf-4edd-8bd5-60eb57231543@sewingwitch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHn=e4hpVR961_WMDHhinHaiEcK=e=viFThTO9SypPNFBf-gVw@mail.gmail.com>
Alas, both the Dyson Sphere and the simpler Ringworld are unstable and
will drift into the object they orbit. Some pesky math majors proved that.
(I've been a space nut and a hard SF fan since the 60s. I so wish more
people understood how orbits work, but our science education system is
poor and our space movies lie about how orbits work. So far, the best
I've seen are 2001, Babylon 5, and The Expanse. Everyone else does WWII
dog fighting in space, as if it had an atmosphere. A great tool for
learning it is Kerbal Space Program, a construction game for building
and testing spacecraft.)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-20 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-20 7:46 [Starlink] " Hesham ElBakoury
2025-11-20 9:19 ` [Starlink] " Vint Cerf
2025-11-20 17:03 ` Kenneth Porter
2025-11-20 18:50 ` David Lang
2025-11-20 19:37 ` Kenneth Porter
[not found] ` <30692.1763668809@obiwan.sandelman.ca>
2025-11-20 20:12 ` David Lang
2025-11-20 20:44 ` tom
2025-11-20 20:58 ` David Lang
2025-11-20 22:41 ` Kenneth Porter
2025-11-20 17:18 ` J Pan
2025-11-20 17:26 ` Kenneth Porter [this message]
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