Good
ideas are parts; pieces of construction elements that may be added together to
form something new. Whenever individuals excel at building something new, with
innovative designs unknown before, besides creating something people will use
and others imitate, they have made a part that may be synthetically combined
with other good existing ideas to construct something entirely new.
Without
the presence of good ideas contributed to common knowledge by others it would
be pretty difficult to originate all of those ideas for-oneself and put
together new concepts that may be actualized and potentially become facts in
real construction. Skydiving is a greatly innovative and excellent thing for
example yet it would not have risen to its heights without the prior invention
of balloons and airplanes. Cliff jumping might not have had as great a utility
as aircraft jumps.
The
construction of building in space; in micro-gravity, is obviously a field with
tremendous potential for good ideas to arise in. With so many different
gravitational field strengths and light content varying in space and time the
number of different kinds of structures and materials that could be used to
fulfill designs is very large. Interestingly many or most of the good ideas and
designs will never be actualized in the lifetimes of the designers presently
working for there is far too little construction ability in relation to the
quantity of ideas already existing.
The sun
for example may be used as a de facto blast furnace for metallurgical
manufacture. Minerals extracted far out in the solar system may be sent in with
gravity to facilities located near the sun. Sunlight may be collected close in,
converted to electricity and exploited to power lasers or particle beams to
react with the cargo carrier space transit modules to move finished products to
the outer solar system. Various local gravity fields of moons and planets may
be used to shape construction grains dispersed upward into a field that will
collapse downward in the g field to form perfect parabolic shapes and freeze or
dry into those configurations. Vast building components could be assembled
exploiting natural forces.
It is
said that aluminum naturally fuses in micro gravity. One might be able to spray
aluminum grains onto screens in
micro-gravity to fuse solid as if it were gunnite concrete sprayed on to form
Earth domes. Plainly the manufacture of spherical structures in space should be
as simple and natural as nature’s siliceous tests from plankton that built up
the cliffs of Dover. Sunlight collected, concentrated and focused as particle
beams and/or lasers should be reflected and amplified to power a solar
system-wide grid for space module ships to draw power from. Mass drivers
located on low-gravity moons without much atmosphere could send space ship
modules on their way to a space transport network power grid.
Dyson
spheres wherein one surrounds a star with the ground up matter of a solar
system’s planets at an optimal distance for the normal gravitational and
heating standard of the parent planet of local stars or more. Freeman Dyson’s
idea was very far ahead of its time of creation and may be combined with other
good ideas to make something new and presently unknown. It would be interesting
if gravity becomes more understood, to exploit gravitational fields for kedging
spaceships around local star groups at relativistic speeds. One wonders if
concentrating mass at relativistic speeds might be useful for advanced
construction procedures if the accelerated mass could be locked in to place
perhaps with juxtaposed or intersecting, focused gravitational fields.
One
might design electromagnetic fields empowered with energy from the sun
converted and reconverted from photons to electrons to laser beams back to
electrons and electromagnetic fields. Fields generated on moons could be used
to backstop oppositely charged electro-magnetic fields in space that are shaped
and sequentially switched on to acellerate mass ships and modules to
relativistic speeds on set course making Pluto two months away from the inner
solar system. Shaped magnetic fields with select activation could be routinely used
for constructing modules in micro-gravity. There are unlimited possible
invention ideas waiting to be syntheticly recomnined from existing ideas and
technology.
On Earth
one might design hollow mountain ranges for buildings for people to live within
and double the potential useful area per construction unit because the exterior
of the structures could be used as well as the interiors. Plants and wildlife
could use the exteriors as well as agriculture (the hanging gardens of Babylon
may have been agricultural as well as decorative with ornamental, flowering
plants). One concept interesting to me was the idea of using water from rain
and snow (or sandstorms and dust or sand) that settled on exterior surfaces to
generate electricity that could be used multiple times with catch and release
to turn generators. For example; the initial deposit would build up on a
collecting/concentrating surface that could sink under the weight and crank up
a spring that would release upward when the water or sand was released. That
would allow the spring to power a generator as it rose. The water could be
spilled from the spring through a turbine downhill powering a generator
producing the second round of power and that process could be repeated. The
exterior surface of a rightly designed mountain (I traveled through the ersatz
Matterhorn at a theme park Disneyland or something at the 1960 world Fair in
N.Y. or elsewhere and that suggested the idea to me later of building vast
artificial mountains that would be constructed with steel beams etc later)
could produce electricity from alternative sources including wind, solar and
water or dust and sand). Could produce power, grow food and shelter tens of
thousands of people while not displacing the ecosphere if location selections
are well chosen.
Good
ideas are abstract parts or elements that may be recombined in new structures
(ideas).
