SE, in my experience, has been the tool that best represents the scale and size of the universe. Most people learn about the solar system with a map similar to this: http://giantsandpilgrims.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/solar-system4.png These diagrams do not represent distances and scale correctl...
12464 I always interpreted that to mean that if you turned on the field without an initial velocity, you simply wouldn't move. Everything is in motion, so all that would do is just accelerate you in the wrong direction or collapse the field. 12464 While we're on the subject of superweapons, will th...
12379 What would happen if a ship with an Alcubierre warp drive collided with a planet at FTL speeds? Or a star? As far as I understand, this is not possible because a ship in a warp bubble is not in our universe, but in its own space-time bubble, in its own mini-universe. But I can be wrong. You m...
11853 Airless is different from the -baric pattern, but I don't think there is any synonym of airless that is suitable for a celestial body devoid of an atmosphere. There may not be, but it's easily created, since there is a prefix that indicates non-existence: a-. So it'd be abaric. On the minus s...
Here is my take on the classification system. Etymologies of words in English have always interested in me, so hopefully I can be of use to you. NOTE: I DON'T SPEAK ANY OTHER LANGUAGES, so I am not aware of any translation issues. Most of this is from Google, Wikipedia, or Dictionary.com Bulk: terra...