Comments on: Ep. 167: Future Civilizations http://www.astronomycast.com/space-flight/ep-167-future-civilizations/ Take a weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos with Astronomy Cast. Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:05:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Muratcan http://www.astronomycast.com/space-flight/ep-167-future-civilizations/comment-page-1/#comment-5438 Muratcan Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:41:21 +0000 http://www.astronomycast.com/?p=1085#comment-5438 Sorry Fraser, Pamela and the Astronomy Cast team, I just became overexcited to find something not yet released like that. It was weird really I was looking for a working link of episode 25 so I thought maybe libsyn have a good link (I have done this with another podcast I listen to). By chance the only time I visit that site is when I find the latest unreleased episode on there, only posted an hour ago! I wanted to share it with fellow enthusiasts who maybe wanted an early fix and at the same time I was deeply curious about what it was and what it was doing up there. I assume there was some mistake and it wasn't supposed to be published on that libsyn site? Costs never came into my head, sorry about that. Yesterday while I was listening to one of the older podcasts you were talking about donations and I was seriously considering it thanks to the quality of your work, please continue with it, the audio equivelant of the Cosmos series no less! Now after my shenanigans I am obliged to donate a few bob, definitely worth it. We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself*, Muratcan. *Carl Sagan is a legend! ^_^ Sorry Fraser, Pamela and the Astronomy Cast team,

I just became overexcited to find something not yet released like that. It was weird really I was looking for a working link of episode 25 so I thought maybe libsyn have a good link (I have done this with another podcast I listen to). By chance the only time I visit that site is when I find the latest unreleased episode on there, only posted an hour ago!

I wanted to share it with fellow enthusiasts who maybe wanted an early fix and at the same time I was deeply curious about what it was and what it was doing up there. I assume there was some mistake and it wasn't supposed to be published on that libsyn site?

Costs never came into my head, sorry about that. Yesterday while I was listening to one of the older podcasts you were talking about donations and I was seriously considering it thanks to the quality of your work, please continue with it, the audio equivelant of the Cosmos series no less! Now after my shenanigans I am obliged to donate a few bob, definitely worth it.

We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself*,
Muratcan.

*Carl Sagan is a legend! ^_^

]]> By: Astronomy Cast http://www.astronomycast.com/space-flight/ep-167-future-civilizations/comment-page-1/#comment-5437 Astronomy Cast Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:53:54 +0000 http://www.astronomycast.com/?p=1085#comment-5437 Nice hacking. Please don't post the links to uncompressed episodes. That makes us have to pay for 315 mb downloads. That's how we transfer them between me and Pamela. Nice hacking. Please don't post the links to uncompressed episodes. That makes us have to pay for 315 mb downloads. That's how we transfer them between me and Pamela.

]]> By: Latest ep http://www.astronomycast.com/space-flight/ep-167-future-civilizations/comment-page-1/#comment-5436 Latest ep Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:47:49 +0000 http://www.astronomycast.com/?p=1085#comment-5436 Hey guys, Here is the latest episode of Astronomy Cast: <link REMOVED> Not on the homepage yet. It is in uncompressed .aiff format so the file is quite massive (315.77mb to be exact). Furthermore there is a surprise after the outro. Enjoy!</link> Hey guys,

Here is the latest episode of Astronomy Cast:

Not on the homepage yet. It is in uncompressed .aiff format so the file is quite massive (315.77mb to be exact). Furthermore there is a surprise after the outro. Enjoy! ]]> By: Norvaljoe http://www.astronomycast.com/space-flight/ep-167-future-civilizations/comment-page-1/#comment-5432 Norvaljoe Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:50:00 +0000 http://www.astronomycast.com/?p=1085#comment-5432 I loved this episode and the Nanowrimo plug at the end topped it. When I started my last Nano story I had to decide between two ideas I was working on. Either, the inter galactic battle base, (which I have since changed intra galactic... inter galactic travel is too absurd for even my imagination.) which was a huge tube spinning through space....and the other was a story about Earths decedents on the moons of Jupiter, 500 million years in the future (with lots of really bad science). I'm saving the Battle Base for this year's Nano. Every episode sends my mind spinning in all kinds of directions, both plausibly and absurdly. I loved this episode and the Nanowrimo plug at the end topped it. When I started my last Nano story I had to decide between two ideas I was working on. Either, the inter galactic battle base, (which I have since changed intra galactic… inter galactic travel is too absurd for even my imagination.) which was a huge tube spinning through space….and the other was a story about Earths decedents on the moons of Jupiter, 500 million years in the future (with lots of really bad science). I'm saving the Battle Base for this year's Nano.

Every episode sends my mind spinning in all kinds of directions, both plausibly and absurdly.

]]> By: Randall R Schulz http://www.astronomycast.com/space-flight/ep-167-future-civilizations/comment-page-1/#comment-5429 Randall R Schulz Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:44:58 +0000 http://www.astronomycast.com/?p=1085#comment-5429 Regarding the ring-world concept and the notion that if we could grab all the matter orbiting the sun to use to fabricate the ring such a thing could be built (and please correct me if I'm wrong): Even if we could muster the energy required and construct the implements necessary to "harvest" all the matter in the solar system, as Pamela said would be needed, there's one thing we can't get around, it seems: All the angular momentum in the orbits of that matter. It's strictly conserved and the only way to get rid of that angular momentum would be use it to eject a good bit of the matter you need from the solar system. Right? Regarding the ring-world concept and the notion that if we could grab all the matter orbiting the sun to use to fabricate the ring such a thing could be built (and please correct me if I'm wrong):

Even if we could muster the energy required and construct the implements necessary to "harvest" all the matter in the solar system, as Pamela said would be needed, there's one thing we can't get around, it seems: All the angular momentum in the orbits of that matter. It's strictly conserved and the only way to get rid of that angular momentum would be use it to eject a good bit of the matter you need from the solar system.

Right?

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