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How does the Impeller Wedge in the Honor Harrington series work?
I may have missed it somewhere, but how does the impeller wedge in the Honor Harrington series work. I am only a couple of books in, but I don't quite understand how the impeller wedge works to offer ...
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Living on a building's surface in “Farewell Horizontal”
I read "Farewell Horizontal" a long time ago. It described people living on the surface of a really big building, in particular, sometimes standing perpendicular to the wall. My physics is a bit weak, ...
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What is the largest (engineered) physical object dreamed of in science fiction?
I can think of 3 kinds of big.
By volume
By a linear measure
By mass or weight
Bonus points for all three. Extra bonus points for the object being realistic in construction.
Let's add to it that ...
