Successful Space Simplicity
MW Rhodes © 20221023
Successful Space Simplicity and Complex Cumulative Complications
“Complex Cumulative Complications are cool for the cameras but Successful Space Simplicity saves a life.” A life being that of Earth’s Biome.
(( Post-publish edit.. Another one of those cool coincidences just happened. A new video on a similar topic of asteroids/comets has just today been published. It’s right down the bottom of this blog if you want to check it out. :) 20221029 )) … Post Post publish edit.. Yet another really cool coincidence has occurred. Do you see the image I drew of an asteroid?.. I drew it as a scribble without much-intended form then got creative with some interesting partial facial features.. Just yesterday I was scrolling my FaceBook and found an image of a near-Earth asteroid that looks not the same as my creativity but weirdly similar. I’ll pop a screenshot of it down below. :)
Increasing complexity increases complications. Simplicity’s Success Succeeds.
Rockets are fun, and so are computers. They are both toys and tools.
Musk is a maestro of money. Prophets for life, he suffers no fools.
Things decay and components comply. Rockets and computers die.
In deep space where resources are limited, the cost of energy to mine and manufacture more computer chips and rockets for rocket ships is much higher than the energy cost of acquiring minerals for biological systems to remain alive and cycle a type of life cycle through deep space.
Biological cycles recycle again. Carbons transfer from friend to friend.
Carbons decay slowly over time. Carbon in space is cheaper to mine.
Space is hard. Metals and minerals do need replacing for renewal as all things decay and for the time spent in space they decay much faster than we can travel to some destinations. Carbon is one of the more abundant quasi-primordial elements in our universe so it should be easier to find than the heavier more complex isotopes found in computer chip semiconductors.
Speed of travel is never going to be fast enough to ignore the need to be able to replenish resources for the systems on board. Be they biological or computers or even containment/construction materials. If the latter is achieved then the former is not as vital to survival for successfully reaching destinations and propagating life. Indeed speed kills and if it doesn’t then it wears things out like complex components much faster.
We need simpler more efficient materials and systems with minimal decay in mind.
Rockets and computers are extremely complex and yet biology is far more complex and superior and efficient for cycling and recycling for a deep space journey.
I’ve mentioned previously about NOAH’s Ark type construction perhaps in the form of six pyramids that can manoeuvre into a unit cube while in space. Simple carbon-based materials. Hemp might suffice but carbon nanotubes may be superior if they can be applied.
Protection and containment with some method of thrust for acceleration transport and navigations. More time can be saved by successfully predicting - determining by calculation where and when a non-existing asset will come into existence. It may take a billion years to get somewhere worth going.
A simple easy, renewable deep space thrust mechanism may be highjacking an icy comet/asteroid. Attaching it to the cube and then on the thrust side attach a small quantity of thermal product that melts ice. The water evaporates and expands causing a small amount of thrust. If contaminated with heavier elements then some extra thrust may be experienced. The icy asteroid/comet may also at times be a source of fresh carbon atoms for biological replenishment. Not food but isotope replacement. We’ll be recycling ourselves quite a bit on the journey and carbon isotopes do decay so if we can maintain the balance of the right isotopes this helps things biologically.
It may not be a Hollywood rocket but it is the simplest form of thrust available in deep space with renewable and storable resources possibly with a chain of comets/asteroids in tow for the real long deep space crossings between galaxy space. The thermal products may range from the well-known heavier isotopes of uranium or plutonium but these are not as much in abundance in our universe as one of the lighter primordial elements which if the correct method is applied then thermal energy can be regulated.
It is almost a set-and-forget device. Place the thermal node and let the process occur. Almost FREE thrust from an energy perspective with only some directional corrections required as necessary. Finding the right one with the right initial vectors is all a part of it. As long as the thrust is in the average direction we want then we’ll have surplus energy required to alter navigations. It’s not a direct response mechanism but more like a sailing ship hoping the wind blows in the approximate right direction and having the sails at hand for when it comes. Then spending some energy on precision destinations can be done once the bulk of the journey has been achieved of course trying to be as efficient as possible and influencing the direction of the bulk journey to further reduce precision expenditure.
Other smaller utilitarian thrust mechanisms are dangerous and complicated but may need to exist for more immediate requirements of manoeuvring for evasive or precision navigations. Each pyramid section has its own smaller thrust mechanisms. A little more complex than the big one mentioned above but still can be fuelled by the same type of expansion of the melted ice process. Our sensory systems need to be adequate to give sufficient warning for our response and that’s all. The weaker our sensors then the more thrust capability we may need. But this should only be a very rare event as our sensors should have long determined a safe path long before the Cube may need to take corrective measures or at worst take any extreme evasive actions such as separating the cube into pyramid sections.
Everyone loves fast super rockets as they inspire us with their sheer power. They may have some applications in deep space but if our sensors are good enough then most of the journey should be smooth sailing without needing such things. Something much like the ion rockets. These, however, use Xenon which is Number 54 on the Periodic table and so in deep space I’m not sure but it may prove to be harder to find in useful quantities than water. It’s a fun game exploring this stuff.
Effectively things come down to fuel and energy.
We will need small rockets with thrust for visiting the surface of small gravitational assets such as the moon and collecting surface samples or commencing larger-scale mineral extractions. Our descendants will have evolved without gravity so they won’t be doing day trips down onto high-gravity assets like our planet. We are suited to our planet’s gravity now, and we consider what might happen to us if we went into Jupiter’s gravity.
Some complex systems will be needed but the cost of energy to be able to replenish resources and manufacture computer chips or rocket ships is quite a burden so reducing that requirement is preferred. For example, mining will need to be done from time to time to ensure the integrity of the Hulls.
Travelling through deep space involves collisions with matter and particles so the hulls of each pyramid need to be replaced occasionally.
I didn’t go into much detail in the fiction of Successful Space Species II about the construction of the pyramids as it’s already a big ask to tie our possible pasts with our possible futures in such a way. It may just be a simple coincidence that Pyramids happen to be the most practical forms to consider for deep space projects given their geometric capability to allow six of them to form a unit cube and other useful configurations.
Some folks suggest that the pyramids were built by Aliens and some folks gawk and balk at that idea. Despite what can or can’t be considered evidence for either side of that argument it really doesn’t matter as the pyramids exist as they are and the primary shape, utilitarian capability and efficiency for such a deep space type of Noah’s Ark project are what they are too. It’s a pretty darn good shape to engineer. It’s better than a Tic Tac or other type of tin can tube. Trust me, it’s better to simplify and get it right now while we have resources and time than be up there in deep space wishing we did the pyramid thing. Would you prefer your future descendants to live their lives in a tiny tin can or a place with space?.. Anyway.
So on occasion, we might want to visit an asset that can provide complex carbons in great quantity to renew our hulls. The carbon we can extract from the icy comets/asteroids may suffice for biological replacement and some hull repairs but in quantity may not provide enough for projects like full Hull replacements.
I think I also mentioned previously that the size of these pyramids is determined more by the tensile strength of the material that will be used for them. Hemp may be ok but Nanotube technology if applicable may mean the pyramids can be built bigger than the bulky hemp fibre type.
https://hempfoundation.net/how-hemp-is-used-as-a-building-material/
The outer Hull is mainly for processing the impacts of solids. Then several internal Hulls process the kinetics of other impacts of particles or radiation. The idea is to extract as much energy from any and all possible sources of energy and so these impacts are a source of kinetic energy, thermal energy and even electromagnetic energy. Extracting this immediate energy is like us breathing taking in small amounts of stuff to deliver to other systems. If a field device is employed such as a permanent magnet then some ferrous metals in motion can be converted for their kinetics plus particles absorbed and collected for their atomic elemental properties.
Magnetism also assists in the manoeuvrability of these pyramids when in proximity to other pyramids or other magnetic fields. It also gets used to lock them into the formation of the Unit cube or other practical configurations as required and regulated too.
So the Hulls are more complex than just simple structural materials but they operate on macro scales and are contained. The failure of this simpler system is less likely than the inevitable failure by the decay of computer chips and motherboards. Classical science is the simple science that we need to employ to ensure simplicity is conserved and the probability of success is increased. Complex Cumulative Complications are cool for the cameras but Successful Space Simplicity is what it means to be a Successful Space Species.
This was just a nice light interlude post. A maths series is coming on the other stuff and so are some other things about other stuff and our fluffing around with science and stuff so bookmark this site and stay tuned for more. Alternatively, you may like to visit the main Website www.murrydesigns.com for some nice reading on the beautiful biological adventures I’m working on.
I noticed that just yesterday, the COVID-19 labs in the U.S have just announced a successful refinement in the weaponisation of the coronavirus into a much deadlier strain. This is part of the fluffing around I mention. We don’t learn from history and we really don’t have the time for all this fluffing around as our window of opportunity is now, not after.
I sometimes pause for thought on if I had a solution to the extreme energy issues facing deep space and if it was new and unknown and not overly complicated with accessible ingredients and a feasible method like rubbing two sticks together then I can only imagine how it might get abused by those fluffing around for refining weapons of death.
Anyway sorry to finish this blog on a dark note but as always, take care and travel well. I wonder what the next one will be about.. :)
here are some past ones if you want more to read.
Cheers Murry :)
Love this guy.. He just now posted an awesome video on just such a Cometoid or Asteret.. Asteroid/comet type thingy in our solar system. Looks like we might need to load the harpoons.. :)
