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Hello /hr/
I'm in need of science fiction related images
This means spaceships, robots, planets, aliens, people, etc
both drawn, made or actual photographs are appreciated
I will provide what I have but its not much
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COME ON
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google Wayne Barlowe.

pretty sure that's the right name...
he has AWESOME sci-fi/horror art.
really... then you should make this thread a Wayne Barlowe thread!

Yay!
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Space paintings - Tubes, Chriss Foss and John Berkey. See file name. ~25 files coming up.
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Space paintings - Tubes, Chriss Foss and John Berkey. See file name.
>> noko Anonymous
old nasa space paintings
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/70sArt/art.html
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fairly certain they are the covers for a book called ringword by larry Niven i think his name is great book great concept
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>>435285
Naw I don't think so or I would have recognized them. But yeah, I agree that they're kind of closely related :)
>> Living in Space Anonymous
Not Ringworld at all. look up O'Neil - Stanford Torus, Bernal Sphere, O'Neil Cylinder and Nasa SP-413. Then dream of what could have been
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now that is Ringworld. sorry for the relatively small pic, its the best i can cough up on short notice.

a ring 600 million miles in circumference, 93 million miles in radius, nearly a million miles wide with walls 1000 miles high to keep in the atmosphere. the whole shebang has the mass approximately that of the entire solar system and rotates at 770 miles per second. the surface area is equivalent to 3,000,000 times that of earth's surface.

wrap your brains around that concept
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>>435655
holy fuck. if the human race could build this in a couple million years that'd be awesome
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>>435655
now this is poopworld.

a ring 6000000 million miles in circumference, 9300000 million miles in radius, nearly a trillion miles wide with walls 100000 miles high to keep in the poop. the whole shebang has the mass approximately that of the 10 entire solar systems and rotates at 7700 miles per second. the surface area is equivalent to 9,000,000 times that of earth's surface.

see how easy, and stupid, that is
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>>435750
It's called science fiction. Perhaps you'd like to learn about using your imagination?
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>>435655
Dyson sphere: same thing, MUCH bigger. Only problem is that there may not be a material strong enough to make it hold together, much less a method of venting solar heat and keeping it from crashing into the sun.
Yeah, don't think about how big it is too much or your brain will bleed.
Dunno if this is hi res enough though.
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>> some mage
yes the dyson sphere could be constucted using the same mass the Ringworld used. such a structure would have the radius of 1 AU (the distance separating the earth from the sun), with a floor a few yards thick. it would not be stable though, as such a massive structure would be unable to keep its shape because of gravitational irregularities. it would have the area of approx. 3 TRILLION TIMES that of earth but in order for it to sustain life as we know it some kind of artificial gravity generator would have to installed throughout the sphere.
to put that kind of capacity into context imagine dispersing all of humanity inside the sphere. even with 6-7 billion people inside they could roam for all their lives and still never meet another person.
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i luv this game
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>> some mage
and it would not necessarily need to take a million years to build either the Ringworld or the Dyson Sphere. either one could be constructed in the manner of a few hundred to a few tens of thousands of years depending on what our level of technology is at.
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