Traveling Around Other Worlds
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- In the future we will journey to new worlds, but how will we travel around on them?
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Traveling Around Other Worlds
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 339; April 21, 2022
Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
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Can everyone appreciate that these videos are not filled with ads?? Thank you sir!
I know right. I have a hard time with JMG videos because there’s so many ads. Thanks, Issac. For keeping the ads relatively low.
Indeed!
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@@JRAD897 Issac Arthur not laughing that he puts a lot of work into these video for people that suck like parasites because there are CSOBs.
@@JRAD897 ooh killem
"On mercury the sun hates you more than it does vampires"
-Isaac Arthur, 2022
honestly I'd like to ask what vampires think of this quote once they set foot on mercury. But I'd assume they'd have turned to piles of dust even before landing.
Great said
Long as the sun doesn't make me "glitter" I'm good, thanks.
Vampieoours*
@@ProfessorJayTee
I still can't believe she penned a pack of preternatural pansies. 🤦♂️
"What have the Terrans ever done for us?"
"Well, what about the roads?"
"Right. OTHER than the roads..."
Ha nice
I don't get the reference... Is it from The Expanse?
Aqueducts?
@@chaomatic5328
Monty Python's Life of Brian - the joke is that in Roman-held Judea, a bunch of rebels are discussing why they should rise up against the Romans. One guy asks "What have the Romans done for us?" and the others begin listing stuff like roads, aqueducts etc.
What has the government ever done for us?
Mortal engines on Mercury sounds cool. They don't even have to go as fast as they do in the book/movie, just a few times walking speed to avoid bad terrain and keep up with the terminator.
They'd be neat on Mars too, but Mars has enough air for some flight.
He did an entire episode on that if you are interested
Everything breaks down eventually, though - hope they can handle a full day/night cycle while they're undergoing repairs.
Jcewazhere - I suspect you (or autocorrect) made a typo and wanted to say "mobile" rather than "mortal". Solar powered mobile factories following the terminator on the Moon have also been proposed, especially near the poles and the cryogenic craters there. Those cryogenic lunar polar craters have trapped the volatiles from the temporary atmosphere created by, over Geological time, each impact by a comet or a volatile rich asteroids from beyond the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_line_(astrophysics). The Moon Miners would use telepresence and work with cryogenic robots to minimize the loss of water, CO2, ammonia, etc. - all very valuable. There would probably be towers with microwave links on the crater rims.
@@robertgraybeard3750 FYI, Mortal Engines is a series about dieselpunk cities on tank treads "eating" each other.
@@robertgraybeard3750 Nah, "Mortal Engines" is the title of a book series. The titular mortal engines are cities that travel around consuming one another.
There was also an okay movie made from it, check out the trailer.
Or here's the blurb on it: "[Mortal Engines] is set in a post-apocalyptic world, ravaged by the "Sixty Minute War", a global conflict so violent it caused massive geological upheaval. To escape earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural threats, a Nomad leader called Nikola Quercus (known throughout the Quartet as Nicholas Quirke, and revered as a deity) installed huge engines and wheels on London, and enabled it to dismantle (or eat) other cities for resources."
But yeah, neat concept with some flaws.
A year and a half after finding your channel, this is my first episode as a fully-caught-up listener. I'm going to miss being able to binge several episodes a day, but I'm still looking forward to years and years more content from this channel. Thank you for making my workdays a little brighter, and until next time, have a great week!
Cant agree enough with you, my buddy told me about sfia years ago when i was doin lawn care. Hours and hours out in the sun learning about awesome stuff mostly beyond my comprehension. Thank you isaac
You are always welcome to rewatch/relisten to episodes. In fact, I encourage it. You would be surprised what you missed due to wandering minds..
Love to hear you're taking flight lessons, I'm a pilot and I love seeing more people get to enjoy the beauty of flight
CO2 emissions are the only major issue regarding that, the CO2 footprint is insane..
@@unbreakableldorado7723 yeah unfortunately, I’m personally training to be an airline pilot, which is fairly efficient long distance
@@kingmobplays yea, I mean if just 0,1% of the developed world decided to become hobby pilots, that would seriously mess with any ambition to reduce emissions. We need electric planes ASAP..
@@unbreakableldorado7723 The major environment k1ller is people continuing to buy animal flesh
@@hoominbeeing true. Still, emissions related to planes grow rapidly as well..
Hi Isaac I’m writing a sci-fi story and I was wondering what the effects of a large Coronal Mass Ejection would be on a developed space industry(such as space stations)? Thank you for all your hard work!
Great Idea to capture the CME, wow, I din not thought of that.
Being hit by a CME is no big deal for most equipment as long as it's properly shielded. Humans wouldn't like it. Realistically permanent human settlements in space would have some kind of directional shielding (since the CME only comes from one direction). Alternatively, if shielding the entire station is too costly, they could have a fortified "vault" with a smaller shield where all human inhabitants would rush to in case of a CME (this is also how the real International Space Station does it).
It depends on the type of technology being used (is your book set far enough in the future that computers use photons instead of electrons, are quantum or biological computers used in your setting, etc.) and how prepared the people are. It is possible to shield against the effects of a CME, so it's your choice as the author to decide how badly impacted your civilization would be.
@@Blaze6108 AND the ISS crew may have to in a day or two!
@@Blaze6108 since it only comes from one direction, the shield needn't be very close to the station... I think you could actually make it much smaller by having it closer to the sun, and perhaps turned perpendicular most of the time (to allow sunlight to hit the stations' solar panels), and flip into "shield mode" when a CME is detected or when the station is getting a little too hot.
"Roads?"
"Where we're going, we don't need roads!"
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Caustic soda gets real hot when you add water and can be recharged by cooking the water out. Before the invention of electric locomotion caustic soda was one of three types of rechargable smokeless locamotives used commercially.
17:09 I'm playing Astroneer where I have an RTG and solar panel to keep my rovers batteries charged at all times. Just having fun with the game, I hadn't even thought about it being a viable strategy in real life.
In these times of war and troubles, I listen to Isaac for a breath of optimism and the hope of a brighter future.
It is nice to ponder some of the challenges non-human intelligences may have to face someday. Let's be realistic, our species will simply not make it there, as we have some twisted sense of morality that dictates the species be held back by our weakest links instead of leaving such dead-weight behind.
Necessity is the primary motivator for us, and when all incentives to pursue challenges is systematically removed, stagnation and degradation is inevitable.
This is a topic that I always wondered about. When we get to other worlds and have colonies you'll need to be able to go from settlement to settlement if you want each colony to prosper and every world is different.
I always dreamed of having a Crysis-like nanosuit that allows me to explore anywhere comfortably. Like sprinting and jumping through the jungle without getting scratched up or wading sketchy through waters without being covered in leeches. You could extend that to a generalized environmental protection suit that also allows you to go Icarus-flying on Titan or doing back flips on the Moon.
Idea for another video: What would we wear on other planets? IE. suits, helmets, armor
I'm gonna do a manga series where Issac has a space ship
Bring back hour-long Arthur.
Greatly appreciated, Arthur. I love getting my science and sci-fi content unadulterated by ads with only relevant sponsors.
Keep on making the great content, I'll keep watching.
that intro image of people hang-gliding on venus is completely insane
Wouldn't you be terrified of plummeting into the infinite void of crushing sulfur below?
Falling off a hang glider is probably fatal on any planet. You just get to pick whether you die when you hit the ground or before.
@@fluffysheap especially on Venus: Open the backup chute? no - die by hard hit, yes - die by heat
@@popularmisconception1 ok but dealth
Well, we do swim on the surface layer of the ocean and go on boats. When you think about it, the ocean depths are terrifying and deadly too!
@@askani21 well, you float in water, and a boat doesn’t sink the moment it runs out of fuel either, whereas on Venus, one problem with that hang glider and you die.
So Scott Manley finally started taking flying lessons, and now Isaac Arthur is learning to fly as well. Excellent! Even if getting a license isn't in the cards, everyone should take the yoke at least once in their life. Especially those who talk about flying a lot. :D For anyone considering it, most flight schools offer an introductory flight where a certified instructor will show you how do the basics such as a coordinated turn. It's an experience you'll never forget.
This is a good episode! I think there could be a part 2 because it seems like there's a lot more to say about the outer planets, moons, Trojan asteroids, etc
Me ha flipado la estación entre Pluton y Caronte, que chulada.
- Someone did a design study for fission-powered railroad locomotives. Turns out a standard gauge railroad is not quite wide enough to accomodate the reactor with sufficient shielding. The obvious brute-force solution is to go to a wide-enough gauge. Of course, if you can build a railroad, you could simply use overhead lines with nuclear power plants providing the electricity.
- For "off-road" transport, I suppose something between a main-battle-tank and the fictional "Bolo" tanks (about the size of a battleship) ... could provide mobile power plants.
Issac is the science of TH-cam that is for sure.
The comment about stairs at the end immediately got a "Talk about leg day" out of me.
Actually you can design a mars vehicle with limited shielding. If you are in vacuum, you only need shielding on the side that faces the humans. That takes away about 90% of the shielding. A large vehicle powered by a nuclear reactor on a vacuum or near vacuum world is easier that you state.
I think he means shielding from cosmic radiation, not just your reactor. The cabin has got to meet at least SOME kind of safety standards for above-ground habitation on a planet without much radiation shielding of its own, and if this is permanent 'civilian' habitation, rather than just an expedition, these are likely to be fairly strict, at least until we have very good medical technology to reverse radiation damage.
A most informative video for this Arthursday. As always I love how real and detailed your imagination is for these things.
It occurs to me that roads on low gravity planets could easily include jumps in them safely. Even if you somehow missed it, emergency thrusters could easily set you down safely.
You could have vehicles precisely control their speed and orientation to jump from one place to another without needing to use any sort of propellant, effectively giving you short-range aircraft that can be powered entirely by electricity.
What an evocative and poignant vision: Living as an eternal wanderer on another planet, like our remote ancestors!
I love how EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM is filled with a solution, you are extremely smart and that is how human exploration is supposed to be done, thank you sir!
As an aspiring hang glider and someone has been on your channel for years I love how you always reference them when you get the chance and that intro is just majestic
I can see aliens bringing up roads as the first topic that they talk about. "How did your governments not go bankrupt maintaining all of those roads?"
Our response: "wait, your governments aren't bankrupt? How did you manage that?"
Make every road a toll-road. RFID tags on the vehicles provide the input. Your account would simply be debited as your vehicle crossed the RFID readers according to the ton-miles implied.
@@richardgreen7225 It's a joke. Roads are a never ending toilet that you flush money down compared to something like building a desalinization plant.
We'll require thousands of them for the USA in order to pump water out from the coastal regions.
Water tables across the America will soon begin to collapse because once the SW collapses as those people will flee to other states , which will place pressure on water tables that have more water being taken out than being put back in.
We'll need thousands of desalinization plants and as many nuclear power plants, as well as an extensive water distribution infrastructure that's as sprawling as our road,electrical, or Natural gas line networks.
Yet unfortunately we have people who only want infrastructure they'll use in their short remaining lives.
People demand that we invest money into the grid to improve it while the individuals argue that we can't use EVs because the grid can't handle the new demand.
Meaning they want the Grid patched up to not be inconvenienced in life, but not upgraded to support the next 50 years of population growth & needs.
This is why I support a Martian colony, to get away from those short sighted individuals.
Yeah it's tough & dangerous life on mars, but at least on mars you don't have a "fuck you, got mine" mindset to deal with.
Wait, our government maintained any of our infrastructure? Last I checked, budgets for such have been bled off, which is why they need new taxes to build new things instead of properly managing already existing budgets for these things.
@@innocentbystander3317 It's a joke referring to the aliens having teleportation technology and how we're financing the maintenance of old infrastructure with new tax sources as the previous sources were never enough because of poor urban planning that doesn't account the need to be able to maintain the infrastructure once built.
You built communities so watered down with thin density that the tax base can only support say 1000 homes, yet you built 5 times that much in maintenance expenses.
That's why it's called a Ponzi Scheme.
So the joke is that the government has to admit to the aliens that it can't afford what it built to the aliens who haven't drove around in thousands of years because they teleport.
It doesn't matter if you slap down light urban rail, you built the businesses, homes, and government facilities so far apart from each other that everything is paid with debt.
I care about fiscal sustainability of communities while others care about environmental sustainability which i also like.
America values quantity and not quality, essentially communities like Texan communities are boom towns that are essentially phones you throw away after a few generations.
People will eventually move away from Texas leaving behind communities that require 5x or what ever the tax base that they never actually had.
I have always wondered this; if you had a space station, not in orbit around a planet but in a stable cis-lunar orbit or the like, if you attached a small asteroid to a pivot that acted as a generator with the torque, would it act as an infinate source of energy as there would be no air resistance to slow it down?
It would not be infinite as there would still resistance from the magnets and coils inside the generator as well as friction from any ball bearings used in the pivoting mechanism.
@@owenorourke7517 yep, if you think you've discovered free infinite energy it means some process isn't being taken into account
Happy Arthursday! Thanks to all involved!
Good morning Issac. Thanks for your new uploads. Very enjoyable.
I seriously love your channel! Thank you for your content and I hope you come to Australia one day. It's an amazing world to explore.
Thank you again for such amazing content.
Unfortunately you missed the best way:
Genetically engineered Dragons, as done on Pern, in the Rukbat sector of space.
Draconians and humanoid ET are same galactic members to develop habitable extroplanets.
Another fine presentation; special shout-out to the new addition to your team, to whom you credited the idea.
Before worrying about traveling around worlds... there has to be somewhere to travel to. I expect a Moon (or Mars) city will be a walk around place (like Frobisher bay where there are roads but the vehicles can be counted on one or two hands). Public transport will be the rule for a long time. Splitting a city into two cities with half the population each would cost pretty much twice as much. Everything depends on public infrastructure just to breath or eat or live. The idea of a homestead or private living space is really a non-starter. There would be either government run habitats or personal fifes of very rich people where everyone living there is a peon except the owner and family (and from history the family would not have much say either).
As always say :
Awesome channel with awesome content and great quality 🌍💯❤️
For some sad reason, TH-cam hasn't been recommending your videos so I haven't seen one in a while. I searched you out and glad I did!
I love watching your videos, it always gives me great Ideas. Thanks Isaac for another master piece.
You'd probably enjoy Ian M. Banks "Culture Series" books. It's all post scarcity, way in the future, but they go into how humanity lives on orbital plates or on large ships over living on planets, due to many of the reasons you've mentioned.
I guarantee you he's read them.
Great episode.
Thanks, Homestar Runner! Very informative.
Keep it coming thank you
23:49 Protection decreases as the consumables are consumed so that when the radiation pulse hits near the end of your mission you will have little protection.
I've seen researchers talk about possibly compressing waste into tiles, which could then be secured to the hull of the craft to replace the shielding as consumables are used.
@@atk05003 that would be pretty crappy
@@atk05003 In the age of steam, ships would store coal in the walls of the ship, to act as a little extra armor. As the coal was used up, you had to replace it with something so your ship didn't tip over, so they used sea water.
In this example, you aren't going to use up your water. You are going to recycle it, so it will always be there. Same with Oxygen.
If we were using something that got used up, we would have to replace it, maybe with methane, oxygen, or hydrogen from the spacial environment.
Great way to start the morning
Thermal storage would be amazing on Mercury. Dens rocker to use as thermal mass. Incredible gradient between day and night. Use this with closed loop turbine system for power. Use a large area of the surface as your radiator to space at night. The turbine can run both when filling and emptying the revoir of heat. We already store heat long term from summer for winter on earth, this would so much easier on Mercury.
The novel ideas and concepts discussed on this show are amazing!
Sailing is similar - the trip is the fun
I give a Like before I watch the video. That's the level of trust I have in you, Isaac.
Me too
Great, I can wait to watch it, I have my popcorn already.
It's not healthy to go with just a snack and no drink. :)
@@jimshockey6789 I know but mr. Arthur which is not a slim guy always encourage this LOL
Mr. Arthur is not a slim guy wt heck is telling us to eat and drink high calories products
I love the new animations, they are awesome
I've previously imagined using boiling water as a jet engine for a submarine. While possibly too energy intensive to work, I wonder if that's still the case in a liquid methane ocean on titan where electronics and living quarters would be at much higher temperature than the surroundings.
It would not work with water on earth, you're right that is far too inefficient. It might work as a supplement to a methane ocean craft, that's quite a cool idea (pun intended)... But I would wonder if the trade off is worth it if you need to regenerate that heat already.
In a methane ocean you could use oxygen to make a kind of jet engine
Carl Sagan looking down from heaven at Issac and smiling 😃
I love these series of thought experiences with good old Issac. But I’m still tickled. Made to giggle over certain versions of his Speech Impediment. Lol. MORKURERY instead of Mercury.. well funny. Anyways the reason I’ve been subscribed for years !! Is because it’s soo bloody intresting! The sort of questions I’d ask. He answers . Amazing
Streamlined sky bikes flying along the axis of an O'Neill colony would be great fun, with wings large enough for sustained flight at maybe one tenth gee, and an electric assist to help you climb back up if you stray off the axis.
Plus a reserve chute, of course.
Got my snacks and a drink. Cool subject.
That was a cool episode, watched it on Nebula yesterday.
Isaac just won't let up with the content! He should be way more popular
Its popolar enough, his channel will grow more
Keep in mind Mercury is also a pretty decent blackbody. Carrying your reflective parasol around with you doesn't protect you from radiant heat off the ground.
Roll around in a reflective hamster ball? :D
I was just thinking about bringing cars to a super-Earth with denser atmosphere... No forced induction needed, the denser air will make you having more power without any modification.
I really love your very intelligent videos !!!!
Radioisotope generators also have crap efficiency. If you used a turbine engine to convert the heat they generate, you could get at least 10x the non-thermal power output. And cycle thermal goo in and out for power storage.
Flight is a lovely thing.
If you have a maglev train on an airless world you can go very fast then as soon as you reach orbital velocity the tracks become superfluous. So high-speed transit between cities on the moon you only need the tracks at the beginning and end, the cities can just lob the passenger cars at each over. A maglev becomes a mass driver. On airless worlds, orbital rings and space elevators seem superfluous as those tasks can be done by ground-based mass drivers. On small worlds, without scorching cores, you can also drill holes through the middle and use free-fall gravity trains.
Throttleable rockets would work great for thrust on Mars. Perhaps something like VASIMR would be what we need?
Thin, hazy, non-oxygenated atmospheres with mushy terrain on relatively high gravity worlds: "Your subscription to transportation has expired."
Build tethers to a planetary ring. :D
@15:30 this is the first time I have heard the claim that Microwave Power can bypass Martian dust storms...how do we know this?
I don't know if the claim is accurate, but I'm sure people who study the weather on Mars would know. The trick is to find a frequency that isn't absorbed or reflected by the dust storms. I think it's likely that at least one frequency in the Microwave range would work. (From 300 MHz to 1000 GHz, or as narrow as 1 GHz to 100 GHz, depending on the specific definition.) After all, cell phones and WiFi are both in the microwave range and they manage to transmit through walls at very low power levels.
Hopefully, the people on Mars have a bit more common sense than the locals around here, who won't even allow 5G in my town. 😒
@@johnharvey5412 20x the bandwidth at less than 1/50th the range… thats quite a huge tradeoff so I can understand why stable 4G connections farther out could be vastly superior than faster intermittent connection that keeps breaking up all the time.
Mister Isaac . Your work is fantastic More people should study the universe and the way it works. I am dreaming at Galactic and Intergalactic travels already and the futuristic ways to make this happen. Your channel is the best at explaining science and the future ! Congratulations!
Expeditionary force is a great book series. It's a must read.!!
"There is still some sulfuric acid up there."
Has anyone actually looked at how quickly it would damage skin and mucus membranes? If I wear regular clothing aside from a respirator and sealed lab goggles, how bad is it really gonna be?
Here are some personal anecdotes:
I have gotten sulphuric acid on my skin before and it was not pleasant... I'm not aware of the concentration because I was making it with sulphur I collected from the volcano I used to live near... and I was like 12. It was not pleasant just very itchy to the point of burning and it left me with a bit of a scar on one of my fingers (I have to point it out for it to even be noticed). I only got it on me because I was following zero safety protocols... wear your safety equipment kids. The acid was in contact with my skin for a couple of minutes before I stopped the experiment and went off to find baking soda to neutralize it. We were out of baking soda so I asked the neighbors... it couldn't have been on me for more than ten minutes total.
As far as sulphuric acid in the atmosphere: While at work, I got stuck in volcanic smog that's been nasty enough to make my skin feel like a bad sunburn after a couple of hours' exposure (I was directing traffic on a road about a kilometer away from a caldera). The clothes not made of denim that I was wearing looked moth-eaten after they came out in the wash. And of course, I had no gas mask or goggles so it gave me a smoker's cough and irritated eyes for a week. I'm still mad that I needed to buy a new uniform and got no hazard pay for that.
TLDR: Meh... not a good idea.
You could survive maybe a couple of minutes if you immeditely went into a lab shower after
Goddess on the mountain top
Burning like a silver flame
The summit of beauty and love
And Venus was her name.
She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire
Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire
At your desire.
Can you do a video on geothermal as a power source? Or heat engines in general.
I would be interested to see if it is viable on other bodies in the solar system. I can imagine that it works on bodies with tidal heating or bodies with large temperature differentials generated by the sun, like asteroids or the Moon.
one tungsten rail system around the equator hauling habitats on the dark side and solar panels on the bright side would be cool
Ships and subs on Titan would have the interesting feature of carrying huge quantities of oxygen with them and just pumping in the mixture of methane and ethane from the surroundings as needed for fuel.
I knew the Yeti were aliens! I told them that's why they couldn't find any remains. They take everything back with them. At least they are polite tourists...
Pack it in, pack it out! All life on Earth is descended from a careless Yeti leaving the equivalent of a banana peel in the primordial ocean.
10:36 that sounds amazing.
Everyone knows you travel between O'Neil Cylinders using 60ft tall robots.
Honey wake up, new outwards bound dropped
I love you Isaac.
Imagine a super stol in a thicker atmosphere! 😍
Teleporters would be the truly universal transport method on any given world.
If it was possible, cheap, & people trusted it
So basically you are proposing Jawa sandcrawlers on mars? I'm all in!
Thanks Isaac for another escape from reality. Your videos always make me dream about what could be...
Thank you for this interesting weekly cherry on my Thursdays! I love these practical episodes. And vote for ornithopter!
I wonder what the winds are like at altitudes we could reasonably float around at. There might be some way to sail rather than requiring powered flight.
Interesting to think too that instead of parachutes we might use inflatable balloons to escape a failing aircraft.
13:50 so far, you been describing sky of arcadia.
The only thing Brilliant is this channel !
i really like the moveable city concept for mercury, with such a long day/night cycle, what would be the speed a mobile city would have to have to like 'chase the sunrise' that it stays save from radiation or burning itself ? (sorry that kind of math is way out of my reach)
I appreciate the hang gliders. 👍
First Scott Manley , now Isaac Artur. Maybe i should also get flight lessons. Fly safe.
Idk about Fusion never being miniaturized, have you seen the Tokamak Energy ST40? They use HTS tapes to build a much smaller reactor with the same field density as ITER, they recently achieved 100 million degrees K, which they say is the temperature needed to achieve commercial fusion. Their reactor is 2-3m in radius and it could easily fit in a ship. And with DeepMinds latest breakthrough in controlling the magnetic field, fusion might finally be in reach. Especially if we get better superconductors in the future.
@21:07 Kind of redefines the term "Star" Cruiser 🤣
Isaac - I was pleased that at 27:17 you mentioned that, unfortunately, science fiction has a tradition of planetary chauvinism. Indeed, large habitats in free space, rotating for artificial gravity, will surely be the way humanity will expand out into the solar system. There will certainly be settlements on large bodies but their primary purpose will be mining and exporting materials for the building of habitats in space (and solar power satellites).
Kyle Reese : All right. You stay down by day, but at night, you can move around.
You should look into NASAs Kilopower (which is a radio isotope sterling generator - so using a sterling engine rather than thermoelectric elements to convert heat to electrical energy). They're supposedly more efficient than RTGs and can run on cheaper/more abundant U235 fuel.
there's a Duch children's science fiction book that imagines walking cities on Mercury. One of the first sci-fi's I read.
Oh, I have to add, I’d also like to travel the River Tethys, from the Hyperion Cantos. Of course, it winds its way both around other worlds and between them!
LOL...nice meomries, I have read the Dan Simons series. Rivals with Dune and Foundation.
@@TheScienceTube yes! I’d add Iain Banks’ Culture series and Alastair Reynolds’ works as well.
@@TheScienceTube yes! I’d add Iain Banks’ Culture series and Alastair Reynolds’ works as well.
Years ago I thought of a tether for transport between the two bodies of the binary asteroid 90 Antiope.