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@Shalvenay Omaha.
@James The only thing separating Omaha from the North Pole is a barbwire fence. And even that's been blown down.
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@NexTerren I'm trying to decide if you are trying to be insulting but I'm not sure...
I was born there. My parents swaddled me in a fur parka and ran south.
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lol
 
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17:13
@NexTerren Also, sure it gets cold here, but its no Minnesota...I lived there for a while...
This is a kind of weird request, but does anyone have reputable sources on elemental abundances for the asteroid belt? Specifically for the abundance of Uranium, although other elements would be useful too.
@Gryphon This doesn't even qualify as "a little bit weird" for this chatroom.
But no, I don't have one of those.
@HDE226868 Might have some insights?
@James Yeah, but my Google-fu skills appear to have taken a vacation for today.
...so am I the only one that sometimes goes back and reads starred chat posts?
I was just sifting through some old ones and I found this:
Sep 7 '16 at 15:26, by James
Like. She met the wind. And it was a crazy summer of love. But then things get real and her dad gets mad and bans them from meeting, but then the wind is all I'm wind, and its the 1800's so I know your place isn't wind proof so she and the wind decide to run away together and it gets all dramatic where she climbs to the top of a light house or something to meet the wind and her dad shows up with a shotgun...then she jumps off and the wind takes her away
What in the hell were we talking about...sure I could look it up, but its more fun to imagine.
@James Umm, what the actual ******?
What on earth is that about?
17:23
@Gryphon I have absolutely no idea.
@James Your review of Gone with the Wind is my guess.
Yup. In respect to the idea that Gone with the Wind is the sequel to Name of the Wind
Or visa versa
17:43
@Gryphon space.com/16105-asteroid-belt.html Scroll down to "Composition."
@NexTerren I'm looking more for percentage compositions, but thanks for the help.
The one thing I've found is a Quora answer, linking to a reputable-looking paper that's behind a paywall.
@Gryphon From my reading it's something along the lines of 3 PPB, or up to 100 g per tonne
which is not a ton...
@AndyD273 No it is not.
Which is unfortunate, and really puts a damper on my idea.
Though you'd be getting lots of other minerals at the same time, and it's possible that you could have some that are a lot more rich than others.
@AndyD273 That is true, but I'm designing starfaring space whales that need hundreds of tonnes of U235, so... :(
17:52
Like, there are areas on earth where it's really common, and areas where it's really rare. It's probable that whatever body broke up to make the asteroid belt was the same, so you'd have some that were heavy in uranium, and some that had none.
Well, Then they could either be really efficient, Or they could do something else, like fuse H3, which they could get by dipping into Saturn/Jupiter.
Yeah, I'll keep looking. Dang, just when I thought I had a semi-viable propulsion source.
@Gryphon Oh, that's almost easier... Just have them swallow anything, rocks, ice, gas, and then poop at high velocity.
As a bonus it works as a defence mechanism... you wouldn't want to be chasing one of them
@AndyD273 That works for interplanetary travel (just have them poop using a coilgun). But to cross interstellar distances in just a couple of millennia, you need something a bit heftier on the exhaust velocity side.
Carrying your own fuel for interstellar voyages is kind of a iffy proposition anyway unless you have an extremely efficient drive system. The effort needed to accelerate all the fuel up to some percentage of C that you need to accelerate the ship up to some percentage of C is not the best solution...
I'd go with some kind of bussard ramjet
Eat enough ice in system to build up a big supply of hydrogen, then accelerate out of the system fast enough to collect enough interstellar hydrogen to keep fueling the fusion rocket...
It becomes a self sustaining process, with hydrogen bladders kept in reserve just in case you enter a hydrogen desert somewhere in there...
18:08
Yeah, that's why the plan was to use a Fission Fragment Rocket Engine (FFRE). projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns3.php
Killer exhaust velocity without the annoying speed limits hydrogen-drag gives a bussard ramjet. This way, you aren't limited to 5-10% of c.
That's the problem with a Bussard Ramjet. Beyond the engineering problems involved in making a megameter-wide hydrogen catcher with a reasonable mass.
18:24
@James cc @Gryphon I may be able to help this evening; I'm in lab right now.
@HDE226868 Thanks, but I've found some sources and they all seem to be leaning in the same direction (my idea ain't feasible). Again, thanks for offering though.
18:42
Hi, @bruglesco.
Hey @Hosch250
18:53
@AndyD273 So many fart jokes...
@Gryphon Ah, sorry.
@AndyD273 Poop propellant. Poopellant. Quick, someone figure out if this has already been trademarked.
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Questions

TristongAfter submitting a question elsewhere, it has been suggested that I move my question here here. How would planet formation within an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy impact its solar systems and planets? From the research I've done, this is what I know, but other's may have more insight into what these...

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19:35
@HDE226868, could you look at this sandbox question? It's outside my bailiwick.
Jan 24 at 20:30, by Nex Terren
@AndyD273 Maybe they work like hot air balloons. "Higher! Higher!" "I can't captain, she's giving her all she's got!" "UNLOAD THE BOWELS!"
@NexTerren I'm not googling that
I think you might've had that idea before.
@Hosch250 And they say lightning never strikes twice...
Unless it hits the greased pig at the county fair. In that case, it's guaranteed to strike twice.
19:41
@NexTerren In this case it would have caused two explosions...
https://pudding.cool/2019/05/people-map/

The Internet is an interesting place
@NexTerren Huh, I live just outside Robert Jarvik, really close to Madonna and Serena Williams.
I grew up in Brad Pitt, currently reside in Ree Drummond, but Warren Buffett gave birth to me.
19:56
The whirlwind social life of a tapeworm, huh?
20:36
Hello, Mr. Bomb.
I was just censoring my cursing in a chatroom and accidentally made a smiley.
#@)(@#
20:54
@Hosch250 ...Okay, Pablo. The abstract paintings chat is in another Stack Exchange.
 
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22:19
hey there @Mithrandir24601
@Shalvenay Rytsas! Just got back to England - how're things?
22:38
@Mithrandir24601 alright here, as for you? did you catch my response to your reply: re the Cersei/Euron/Daenrys exercise?
@Shalvenay I might have done? The past couple of weeks have been a complete blur
@Mithrandir24601 ah, basically you mentioned that how they wound up in their respective pickles depended on what country they were dumped into, and I responded to that saying that you could use the UK as an example :) and I could give comparison marks for the US
@Shalvenay You did? Do they start in London? Or somewhere more remote?
@Mithrandir24601 country or city, your pick for each of them, although don't forget to account for their...implements of villainy if you will (Euron having the Silence, Cersei having the Mountain, and Daenrys having Drogon)

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