A Shift in Priorities - Sequel
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Kitiem3000
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They would have put it in geostationary orbit. Otherwise the timing would have to be too perfect for words.
To be more specific geostationary has to be above the equator, you can't really have it anywhere else.
Not sure what the best orbit for staying where you can consider it above the Arctic as long as possible while not caring for long-term stability is, but it is not going to be most of the day.
Not sure what the best orbit for staying where you can consider it above the Arctic as long as possible while not caring for long-term stability is, but it is not going to be most of the day.
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I really liked the predecessor timeline and followed both timelines for a long time. I really liked the writing style and the quality of the story arcs.
Still, I have to critizse this timeline, since it has been operating on such strange physics and understanding of engineering, that even a justification for story driven events dont longer work to keep this story in alternate HISTORY discussion: after 1900. It has come so much off realism and physics, that it belongs to ASB.
Still, I have to critizse this timeline, since it has been operating on such strange physics and understanding of engineering, that even a justification for story driven events dont longer work to keep this story in alternate HISTORY discussion: after 1900. It has come so much off realism and physics, that it belongs to ASB.
This is indeed becoming quiet odd. And even on early stages there is some implausible things.
Kitiem3000
Donor
I haven't seen anything close to ASB so far. A lot that is improbable at best, but nothing outright impossible.
Kitiem3000
Donor
Impossible is a big word. The GQDD was physically possible, though you could very well argue it was impossible to create it by accident.
As for weather patterns, they are really a matter of opinion. Even today we get completely surprised by how the climate reacts most of the time. We are lucky if we can accurately predict the weather a few days in advance with dozens of specialised satellites and supercomputers.
It's really no wonder Americans can still be sceptical of climate change. The miracle is that most people can be convinced we have a firm grasp on the weather a century from now, but are hesitant to predict the weather for this Sunday!
Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.
(Wilhelm von Humboldt)
Because of the necessity to fix the sphere above the Barents Sea, it – or rather the cradle – had been propelled. In absence of human control, the process had been bound to deteriorate over time. However, with only twenty–eight hours delay between planned and actual initiation, the divergence had been minimal still. The Weizsäcker Sun had thus been kindled in the correct position, practically. It killed the repair crew, shone for 5.9224 minutes and had an afterglow phase of 42.8413 minutes.
Below zero, the surface temperature of the Barents Sea rose to 83.4 degrees Celsius, measured 15 hours after the event. It was later calculated that about 236,500 cubic kilometres of water must have vaporised immediately after the event, before tempering had set in. The forests in Scandinavia and northern Russia burnt for almost a week. Storm tides ravaged the northern coastlines, but did not advance to the more populated zones of Norway and Sweden. Muurmanni in Finland and Arkhangelsk in Russia were the urban areas most afflicted, but as both locations were protected by their geographic position, they took damage yet outlasted the orage.
In all, the Weizsäcker Sun had done what it was expected to accomplish. – Would it suffice to stop the glaciers? It was October 1954. The eruption had taken place on the 6th. On the 23rd, Lake Constance started freezing – and the same process was reported from the eastern fringe of the Baltic two days later. – What about the glaciers in Scandinavia and on Novaya Zemlya? There was no snow, hence, no glaciers were forming. But it was cold. Should it start to snow, ice would be forming...
And on Greenland, announced the KWI Met on October 28th, snow was falling like fury and the glaciers were growing. Had the space effort been a lot of fuss about nothing? – One didn't know yet, but certain signs were pointing in that direction... However, how long would it take for a change to take effect? One didn't know either. A certain disenchantment became palpable. If not for the tempering influence of AFV, another series of riots might have rocked Germany.
Faces in the government quarters from The Hague to Moscow went haggard again. In Achinsk, though, preparations for launching solar mirrors were geared up with highest priority. Unfortunately, those up already had been scattered beyond hope...
(Wilhelm von Humboldt)
Because of the necessity to fix the sphere above the Barents Sea, it – or rather the cradle – had been propelled. In absence of human control, the process had been bound to deteriorate over time. However, with only twenty–eight hours delay between planned and actual initiation, the divergence had been minimal still. The Weizsäcker Sun had thus been kindled in the correct position, practically. It killed the repair crew, shone for 5.9224 minutes and had an afterglow phase of 42.8413 minutes.
Below zero, the surface temperature of the Barents Sea rose to 83.4 degrees Celsius, measured 15 hours after the event. It was later calculated that about 236,500 cubic kilometres of water must have vaporised immediately after the event, before tempering had set in. The forests in Scandinavia and northern Russia burnt for almost a week. Storm tides ravaged the northern coastlines, but did not advance to the more populated zones of Norway and Sweden. Muurmanni in Finland and Arkhangelsk in Russia were the urban areas most afflicted, but as both locations were protected by their geographic position, they took damage yet outlasted the orage.
In all, the Weizsäcker Sun had done what it was expected to accomplish. – Would it suffice to stop the glaciers? It was October 1954. The eruption had taken place on the 6th. On the 23rd, Lake Constance started freezing – and the same process was reported from the eastern fringe of the Baltic two days later. – What about the glaciers in Scandinavia and on Novaya Zemlya? There was no snow, hence, no glaciers were forming. But it was cold. Should it start to snow, ice would be forming...
And on Greenland, announced the KWI Met on October 28th, snow was falling like fury and the glaciers were growing. Had the space effort been a lot of fuss about nothing? – One didn't know yet, but certain signs were pointing in that direction... However, how long would it take for a change to take effect? One didn't know either. A certain disenchantment became palpable. If not for the tempering influence of AFV, another series of riots might have rocked Germany.
Faces in the government quarters from The Hague to Moscow went haggard again. In Achinsk, though, preparations for launching solar mirrors were geared up with highest priority. Unfortunately, those up already had been scattered beyond hope...
Yeah, I have always been extremely skeptical about the science behind the Little Sun, and the notion that it could be technologically feasible in the 1950s. Getting a man into space earlier? Yeah, I can buy that. Creating a 'mini sun' that is something completely out of science fiction that can burn up the Barents sea to near boil point is something else entirely. Wouldn't they have at least thought to use more 'conventional' methods like increasing the emission of CO2 and other chemicals that produce global warming rather than resort to something so infeasible? I think by far this has been the worst waste of money yet.
I have to reflect the concerns of other readers of being critical of how the storyline has turned; the whole 'little sun' arc has nearly taken the timeline completely off the rails into near ASB science fiction rather than a TL focused more on nations, politics, etc. It breaks my suspension of disbelief way too much.
I have to reflect the concerns of other readers of being critical of how the storyline has turned; the whole 'little sun' arc has nearly taken the timeline completely off the rails into near ASB science fiction rather than a TL focused more on nations, politics, etc. It breaks my suspension of disbelief way too much.
Imagine what the inhabitants of this TL would have had to say about ours.
altamiro
Banned
Actuall, while the heat from the "little Sun" itself will never be sufficient to combat the cooling, a localised heating of the permafrost zone may release a massive amount of methane which will influence the climate far stronger. A heating of the water above the continental shelf may release so much methane that TTL people would wish they never got the idea. Plus, a collapse of methane hydrate makers in the sea will trigger huge underwater mudslides, tsunamis and the destruction will extend well beyond the target zone.