My article could be clearer... 3g continuous is a MAX capability. The Mars trip profile assumes only 1 g continuous acceleration to midpoint and 1g deceleration the rest of the way.😃
Re: Using bitcoin solar system wide, I think the base timechain would have to remain only in near-earth space... but couldn't transactions be signed in a time-remote location and transmitted back to Earth?
I'd enjoy reading your story about an Earth ring...😃
Sure, signing a transaction is no problem, and second layers should work fine anywhere, but if savings and balance sheets are settled on the base layer and fees from mining are continuously injected into the economy of earth and the half of the inner solar system that's within 10 min of earth, then anything outside of that 10 min window is effectively a colony, and Earth benefits from the same cantillon effects as Spain had when it received a galleon full of gold and silver. Ultimately, the stage is set for a conflict.
And that's great - the only way humanity could take to space is if it were a grand conflict. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..."
How is your spaceship propelled? The shape suggests it's not using chemical propellent... right?
can't use radio for anything bigger than planetary networks, but i'd say an entanglement broad band connection between planets would solve the latency problem
also, simple ballistic propulsion for space travel is impossibly expensive, you definitely have to have two things: a very strong magnetic field to protect against radiation (and a mechanism to safely divert the energy that naturally must travel through the pole) and you need a device that nullifies gravity, then the acceleration ceases to be a problem, because inside that bubble you feel zero G
Well the latency is because of the speed of light - Mars and Venus are usually more than 10 light minutes away from Earth. But certainly the better the equipment, the lower the latency, within range of the center of hash. Technically I think the network can spread far beyond the 10 minute light minute center, but at some point dead branches on the Merkle tree (yeee am I remembering this term correctly? Lol) will get problematic cuz the time to fetch the correct blocks adds to the latency the further out you get. IF I'm saying that correctly... I guess its simpler to say, I've seen blocks take 2 hours to be found, so Mars can compete for those.
Being able to nullify gravity would certainly open up space travel... I just don't know how. But I think we should build a solar civilization even if we can't solve all the problems yet. An orbital ring seems like a good place to start 🤔
yes but it only takes maybe 200kbit or so to have one node on mars synced in realtime to earth, so a single 100mbit connection would probably let them share the chain
i'm pretty sure nikola tesla was scratching at the surface of how to do gravity nullification
i'm also pretty sure that gravity is an effect created by electrons in a quantum state we don't understand yet, so what i'm saying is essentially gravity nullification is about creating a field around an object that deflects this kind of particle, without that resistance to motion created by gravity you have the ability to travel a lot faster, this doesn't mean you can travel faster than light (that would be teleportation), but if you could get to mars in a day that would be sufficient i think
Other planets can share the chain but can't mine it. They can send their tx to earth and someone will eventually include these in a block. There goes the decentralized nature 😂
A tangle like chain tho, like IOTA, could work for interplanetary stuff. Food for thought
Oh you were saying the future telecomms or whatever its called will use quantum entanglement? I missed that detail... Yeah, I guess they will. That could make the whole plot I was imagining kinda silly.
