space
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Background: By the year 2000, visionary futurists have estimated that over half the human population will live off-world, on another planet or in an orbital space colony. The Issue: Unfortunately, other planets generally have inconveniently not-matching-Earth orbital periods and day lengths. Thus, the calendar months will need to be adjusted in order for our intrepid…
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Background: Refrigeration is a great way to preserve foods. But chilling and/or freezing foods can have adverse effects on taste. What if there was a way to stop time for the food WITHOUT chilling it? Proposal: Luckily, physics provides a solution: as an object moves more quickly through space, it experiences the effects of time…
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Background: There are a few cell phone games that use real-world GPS data to control your in-game character. The most well-known are probably the two games by Niantic, Pokemon Go and Ingress, in which you physically walk around in order to move your in-game character. However, no one has yet implemented a smaller-scale version of…
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Here’s the idea: Many people are fascinated by the idea of interplanetary travel. It may seem initially appealing: you travel between the stars in your spaceship, and periodically land on interesting planets to poke around and see what wonders they have to offer. Fig 1: Travel across the galaxy Fig 2: Land on weird planets …
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