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WCDT: 2286-90 (1-5 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Omega Entity:
90% is half uphill... so, 45% is uphill, 45% is downhill, and 10% is flat?
Akima:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 30 Sep 2012, 18:44 ---Wouldn't they have thrusters on something that big and expensive to keep the orbit from degrading, though?
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I think so. And propulsion technology is more advanced in the QC-verse than in our world, judging from the SSTO space-plane that took Hanners, Marigold and Marten into orbit.
Somebody:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Sep 2012, 22:48 ---Jeph said in a Tumblr Q&A that Station is too big to fit on normal server hardware.
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Isn't "Station" just the human subroutine (re: Friday's comic) rather than the whole AI, though? Wouldn't that be severable if it came down to it?
--- Quote from: Akima on 01 Oct 2012, 02:06 ---
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 30 Sep 2012, 18:44 ---Wouldn't they have thrusters on something that big and expensive to keep the orbit from degrading, though?
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I think so. And propulsion technology is more advanced in the QC-verse than in our world, judging from the SSTO space-plane that took Hanners, Marigold and Marten into orbit.
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Which itself would give the station a boost every time it docked (unless they horribly cocked up the direction of docking relative to the station spin and orbit, which is unlikely).
akronnick:
It's possible that the station is higher than LEO. Maybe it was constructed in situ from raw materials mined on the Moon and asteroids. If it was high enough, it would have less atmospheric drag to deal with, which could be done with some kind of ion drive. It could even be at Earth-Moon L1 and use the orbital resonance to keep it in place.
Border Reiver:
Moving from high philosophical discussions on whether or not the cartoon AIs actually own their own "bodies" to slightly less elevated philosophy - "How many cat .gifs are necessary to placate the internet?"
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