@chrisf.bsky.social
Post-Scarcity Joy
3d metal copper printed Ai optimized aerospike rocket engines!
Single stage to orbit!
All the aerospaces.
leap71.com/2024/12/23/l...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospi...
Timeline Maps!
Watch empires rise and fall with slick timeline UX
www.oldmapsonline.org/en#position=...
USA energy maps!
atlas.eia.gov/apps/all-ene...
That time in 1989 when Iraq tried to shoot satellites into LEO with a 150 meter howitzer.
Gerald Bull had a fascinating career.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun
www.damninteresting.com/project-baby...
projectrho.com/public_html/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_...
The boom table.
Courtesy of project rho.
E20j/yr is where humanity is at right now
E17j is a 100 mt tsar bomba or so
Fun to find how different scales of energy relate. The wiki version is also fun.
doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-meme-i...
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Live EU power maps!
121gigawatts.org/copper-sushi...
Live tokyo map!
minitokyo3d.com
Live aircraft maps!
www.flightradar24.com
Live ship maps!
marinetraffic.com
Live space maps!
stuffin.space
Orbitals
Different orbits let you do different things. Each has a minimum *speed*. Get something going fast enough it’ll keep going for a long time.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Ear...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrang...
If you ever want to build a space station, lagrange points are very attractive because you can save a small fortune in fuel and keep things *parked where you left them*
You can get most places in solar system just with a good *push*
Much of the work is just to escape Earth’s gravity well. Now we almost have starship with 100 tons offworld. Heres a map of all the places we can go.
Shaders.
Art from pure math powered by GPU
AI is actually really good writing these.
Its a fun skill to learn!
www.shadertoy.com/results?quer...
iquilezles.org/articles/
thebookofshaders.com
pixelspiritdeck.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader
If you ever need to move something *very big* on the water very precisely, these guys got you covered. Couple with the barges and this was much of original SpaceX drone barge buildout.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonom...
www.mcdonoughmarine.com
www.thrustmaster.net
Gorgeous. Reminds me of this one for gold claims. California used to be river superhighway until mining silt hydro mining clogged it all up. Kind of cool to compare to the drainage basins maps.
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ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...
Ever wanted to know how a clock works? Bartosz Ciechanowski has you covered.
www.construction-physics.com
One of the best blogs on the internet. Fascinating deep dives.
One of my favorite data viz plots ever. Civilization key stats at a glance.
From the very fun titled
“Over the hills and further away from coast: global geospatial patterns of human and environment over the 20th–21st centuries”
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
www.grasshoppergeography.com/collections/...
Drainage Basins are pretty.
Hydrology an artform
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...
The wiki on the project is a deep rabbit hole full of futures never followed up on.
Plowshare.
How to dig a canal?
☢️nukes of course!
Of interest, a single modern BWE can earthmove in a year as a 3mt nuke from a 1960s can do in 1 hour
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kpjF...
Terraforming 101
How to raise the water table.
Keyline plowing/contour trenching turns mountains into rechargeable water batteries.
jaredeglinski.wordpress.com
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
BWE bucket wheel excavator
100m tons/yr of earth moving
3mw
$30m
Every town should have one.
ucpcdn.thyssenkrupp.com/_legacy/UCPt...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardash...
Kardashev Speedrun.
Lets do it.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qam5...
Astrophysics is its own kind of dreaming.
Reshape perception of whats possible.
