Friday Pointless Poll: SCAMS IN SPAAAAAAACE!

[jeriendhal]

Because making james_nicoll cry is a hobby.

[Poll #2039970]

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[seawasp]

And no, you can't sell that tower because Queen Serenity lives there.

[rpresser.livejournal.com]

Needs more cats.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Sorry, James has exclusive North American rights to using cats in online polls.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

"Lunar 3He mining" --> "burn borax bath salts in your new fusion reactor!"

(And O'Neill colonies don't work; the thermal expansion/contraction of the junctions between metal hull and glass windows will fracture them fairly rapidly, even if metal fatigue doesn't.)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Well that's a bummer. Good thing that the Ring's Roof is made of unobtanium.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

The solution to the O'Neill glazier's nightmare is just to run a whole fuckton of daylight-spectrum LEDs down the internal axis of the (windowless) cylinder, powered by those big-ass solar power stations the residents live there to maintain.

This wasn't a viable option in G. K. O'Neill's era (high-efficiency daylight spectrum LEDs didn't exist) but this is now.

But then, O'Neill had some other weird-ass agendas that ... well, let's just say that colonizing space because (Pope said something stupid about contraceptives) is kind of an expensive solution, right?

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Ye gods.. if Nightmare Moon realises what a resource she has right there, we're in serious trouble.

[zarpaulus.livejournal.com]

Solar power satellites might be a bit expensive to lift, but he might be able to mine the silicon from the Moon at least.