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Just get it over with and start building an equatorial particle collider already.

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Unironical support

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Can we get a collider between moon an earth? I know, a lot of particles out there, but if we isolate it?

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We currently can’t block enough radiation to make space travel safe for humans in long term situations unless we are blessed with the calmest of space weather based on some recent news about the long term effects on the kidneys in the conditions of space travel (source, I believe the research still needs to be corroborated https://phys.org/news/2024-06-astronauts-kidneys-survive-roundtrip-mars.pdf )

We’re still not at the Star Trek radiation screen level, unfortunately. So I’m not confident we can isolate this well enough. Earths magnetic field and atmosphere do a lot of work for us, and we still cannot replicate their function well enough to make it safe for humans long term. And this is a project that was put underground because it was more sensitive than humans.

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Put one of them magnet floating trains on top please.

The equator express.

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How about refular trains?

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… around the sun.

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Free power as well. I see no downside to this.

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Accidentally accelerates the whole mass of the sun in a fragile ring of superheated plasma at ridiculous speeds.

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Capitalism. Privatization of Sun.

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Orbital particle collider or bust

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That’s what the asteroid belt is for!

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The GEO Particle Collider.

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A gaggle of particle physicists standing in a circle chanting “RING! WORLD! RING! WORLD!”

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Surely the collective noun for a group of particle physicists has to be A Theory.

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Just put it in orbit! Let’s commit and put a ring on this planet!

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Honest question could this be feasible with a few dozen satellites positioned above the Van Allen Belts to accelerate particles, and just letting the particles raw dog the solar wind and ride around Earth’s gravity well between each acceleration satellite? Cause that would be badass

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No, to orbit the earth at an height of let’s say 1000 km you would need a speed of around 7km/s. If you go faster, you don’t follow an circular orbit. Wirh around 11km/s you would be so fast to leave the gravity well of earth. The particles in those colliders are almost moving at the speed of light. To be exact, they move only 3.1m/s slower than the speed of light, so almost 300000km/s. They would fly almost straight and would be barely influenced by the gravity well.

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Ok, so a huge circular tube it is then

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Skip that. Put it in orbit and make it double as a solar collector array and beam the extra energy back down.

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64 points

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Fr no solid theoretical basis, just trust me bro

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Saturn is one step ahead of us

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Perfect! A bunch of raw materials are already there! We just need to refine them and assemble them into a particle collider.

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They’ll be gone in another 15 million to 400 million years.

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The two first are the same?

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Ops, I meant the Proton Syncrotron.

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