20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

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A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

Progress by SpaceX in building prototypes of Starship has been of great interest for some time.

The big news for the report a breakthrough in developing a safe, reliable, cost-effective transport method to deliver people and cargo to the surface of Mars.

Through an extended process, a vision is evolving of a system based on Phobos, which would extend a tether toward Mars just far enough to allow balloon lifted landing vehicles to release and survive the fall into the atmosphere of Mars. The search for the optimum conbination of materials and procedures is very much underway. If anyone who reads this post in The Knowledge forum is interested in participating, the NewMars forum is open for serious contributors.

Update 2020/05/20: Work is proceeding nicely on separate tracks, to explore the potential of Void's Conjecture.


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Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

Postby tahanson43206 » Mon May 25, 2020 3:43 pm

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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.

A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

Through an extended process, a vision is evolving of a system based on Phobos, which would extend a tether toward Mars just far enough to allow balloon lifted landing vehicles to release and survive the fall into the atmosphere of Mars. The search for the optimum conbination of materials and procedures is very much underway. If anyone who reads this post in The Knowledge forum is interested in participating, the NewMars forum is open for serious contributors.

Update 2020/05/25: Work is proceeding nicely on separate tracks, to explore the potential of Void's Conjecture.

In particular, a 3D design for a metal cushion to fit between links of Kevlar thread wound to support many tons of mass is coming along nicely. A visual image should be on display this week.

Meanwhile, a program to compute the requirements for links of a tether chain is coming along. It will provide a total length of kevlar thread that would be required to suspend a tether from Phobos to just above the atmosphere of Mars.

For reference, a single 290 micron diameter Kevlar thread (#92 industry identification) supports in excess of 13 kilogramns.

The bottom most link of the tether will be designed to support 60 metric tons of mass.

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Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

Postby tahanson43206 » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:56 pm

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If you are interested, the concept is for a participant to take responsibility for development of a virtual plot on Mars, one kilometer square on the surface, in a community called Sagan City (2018).
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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.

A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

Through an extended process, a vision is evolving of a system based on Phobos, which would extend a tether toward Mars just far enough to allow balloon lifted landing vehicles to release and survive the fall into the atmosphere of Mars. The search for the optimum conbination of materials and procedures is very much underway. If anyone who reads this post in The Knowledge forum is interested in participating, the NewMars forum is open for serious contributors.

Update 2020/05/30: Work is proceeding nicely on separate tracks, to explore the potential of Void's Conjecture.

In particular, a 3D design for a metal cushion to fit between links of Kevlar thread wound to support many tons of mass is coming along nicely. A visual image is on display. The model is not yet printable via 3D printing, due to complexity. Work is continuing to resolve the issues.

Meanwhile, a program to compute the requirements for links of a tether chain is coming along. It will provide a total length of kevlar thread that would be required to suspend a tether from Phobos to just above the atmosphere of Mars.

For reference, a single 290 micron diameter Kevlar thread (#92 industry identification) supports in excess of 13 kilogramns.

The bottom most link of the tether will be designed to support 60 metric tons of mass, in the 38% G field of Mars.

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Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

Postby tahanson43206 » Mon Jun 08, 2020 2:47 pm

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If you are interested, the concept is for a participant to take responsibility for development of a virtual plot on Mars, one kilometer square on the surface, in a community called Sagan City (2018).
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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.

A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

Member GW Johnson has developed a complete scenario for exploration of Mars, featuring protection for the crew from radiation and lack of gravity, multiple excursions to the surface of Mars for sample gathering and detailed observations, and most significantly, the complete absence of dependence upon in situ resources for a safe return.

Meanwhile, work is proceeding on development of concepts for a Kevlar thread based tether from Phobos toward Mars, for the purpose of delivering payload/cargo shipments to a point just above the atmosphere of Mars, where horizontal velocity would be minimized, and stress on a landing craft would be minimized.

*** Update 2020/06/13 In NewMars forum, GW Johnson just completed an analysis of the idea of using compressed oxygen as a way to provide oxidizer for a launcher from the surface of Mars.

His analysis assumed a traditional fixed outer cylindrical shell for the rocket, and a balloon filling the interior of the shell with oxygen in gaseous form.

He used the math for a Pitot tube, which takes airspeed measurements on Earth flying aircraft. The result of the analysis was a prediction that the forces available to the rocket designer do not support use of this method, because the pressure developed on the balloon during launch into the rarefied atmosphere of Mars are insufficient to feed the rocket engine with the force required to sustain combustion.

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Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

Postby tahanson43206 » Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:47 pm

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If you are interested, the concept is for a participant to take responsibility for development of a virtual plot on Mars, one kilometer square on the surface, in a community called Sagan City (2018).
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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.

A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

Work has proceeded in discussion of a gas-only rocket vehicle for Mars. The topic was speculative from the outset, and it is on life support, but it is not yet expired.

Meanwhile, a branch of that topic was opened for the Lunar launch environment. The gravitational force to be overcome is about half that of Mars, and there is no atmosphere to impose drag on the ascending vehicle, but the fuel most likely to be available is hydrogen, and that is (said to be) more difficult to work with than methane, which would be the likely fuel on Mars.

Update 2020/06/20 ... GW Johnson recently posted a set of lists of titles of essays he's written about various aspects of rocket technology.

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Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

Postby tahanson43206 » Mon Jun 22, 2020 3:17 pm

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If you are interested, the concept is for a participant to take responsibility for development of a virtual plot on Mars, one kilometer square on the surface, in a community called Sagan City (2018).
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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.

A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

Work has proceeded in discussion of a gas-only rocket vehicle for Mars. The topic was speculative from the outset, but it has morphed into what appears to be a potentially productive line of inquiry. GW Johnson has made clear that it is unlikely to be practical to build a rocket on Mars that can reach orbit while powered by fuel and oxidizer held onboard in gaseous form. By a series of posts, GW Johnson has succeeded in making the case for continuing the terrestrial practice of using liquid components for launches from Mars. The new direction for the topic arose from a reflection by SpaceNut that the British Sabre engine design achieves (what to me are astonishing levels of) cooling of incoming air using a cooling system which circulates liquid hydrogen. This insight led to discussion of the possibility of gaining some advantage on Mars, by storing oxygen in gaseous form (which does not require constant cooling) until a customer shows up in need of liquid oxygen for refueling a spacegoing vehicle (or for any other purpose which requires liquid oxygen).

Specifically, the discussion moved in the direction of considering liquid CO2 for high speed cooling. That discussion is still under way, because the problem of moving from dry ice to liquid CO2 at 5+ atmospheres is not obvious.

GW Johnson recently posted a set of lists of titles of essays he's written about various aspects of rocket technology.

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Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

Postby tahanson43206 » Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:43 pm

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If you are interested, the concept is for a participant to take responsibility for development of a virtual plot on Mars, one kilometer square on the surface, in a community called Sagan City (2018).
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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.

A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

A member with the ID RobertDyck added a sketch of a large Mars transport. His work comes at a time when GW Johnson has been writing about a variation of the Aldrin Cycler concept. The variation of GW Johnson has the distinct feature of being planned, not for a regular cycle of movements between Earth and Mars, but instead a high speed trip to Mars with a guaranteed safe return if a landing (or stopover) at Mars is not possible. This design appears to share the characteristic of a rapid (under 167 days) trip to Mars that is a part of the Aldrin Cycler concept.

This plan will require more propellant to slow down at Mars, than would a trip by "normal" Hohmann trajectory, but it will deliver passengers to Mars about three months sooner.

The RobertDyck sketch shows a vehicle designed to provide artificial gravity for the passengers and crew, as well as radiation protection provided by a layer of water carried in the wall of the vessel that faces the Sun.

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Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

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If you are interested, the concept is for a participant to take responsibility for development of a virtual plot on Mars, one kilometer square on the surface, in a community called Sagan City (2018).
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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.

A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

There is a summary of the Large Colonization Ship topic available.

Work is progressing (slowly) on design of a piece of hardware to sit between loops of Kevlar Thread, in a chain concept for a tether at Mars.

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Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

Postby tahanson43206 » Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:40 pm

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If you are interested, the concept is for a participant to take responsibility for development of a virtual plot on Mars, one kilometer square on the surface, in a community called Sagan City (2018).
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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.

A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

There is a summary of the Large Colonization Ship topic available, followed by a debate (of long standing) over the best way to slow a large space ship at Mars. One option is aerocapture, but that option is extraordinarily dangerous. It is also unnecessary, because Phobos is more than capable of delivering 2 km/s (or so) of velocity increase due to the unique nature of its orbit.

Work is progressing (slowly) on design of a piece of hardware to sit between loops of Kevlar Thread, in a chain concept for a tether at Mars. Models of the Cushion Guide are shown in various stages of development at Shapeways.com. A full version of the model is in contract for 3D printing.

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Re: 20160413 Variations on a theme of Adam Smith

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If you are interested, the concept is for a participant to take responsibility for development of a virtual plot on Mars, one kilometer square on the surface, in a community called Sagan City (2018).
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In addition, tahanson43206 is participating in a membership outreach campaign at NewMars forum. In an effort to build up a virtual business community focused upon Mars, messages are being send to newly registered members, inviting them to participate in the Hacienda topic.

A new branch of the My Hacienda topic is open, in addition to the previously reported Devon Island branch. This new branch considers an implementation of Sagan City (2018) on an island in Norway. This island is inhabited, and international arctic research stations are already encouraged by the government.

In the past week, a variety of topics have been under discussion as usual.

Work is progressing (slowly) on design of a piece of hardware to sit between loops of Kevlar Thread, in a chain concept for a tether at Mars. Models of the Cushion Guide are shown in various stages of development at Shapeways.com. A full version of the model is in contract for 3D printing. The full version of the Cushion Guide has been rebuilt in Fusion 360, and (apparently successfully) uploaded to Shapeways.

Several members have been thinking about the Starship vehicles in design by SpaceX might be used to accomplish various space exploration and settlement missions.

Meanwhile, a member who goes by RobertDyck has undertaken conceptualization of a large scale passenger ship that could travel to Mars.

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