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by John
Mon Jan 20, 2020 7:57 pm
Forum: Deep Thought
Topic: An estimate of costs
Replies: 0
Views: 117757

An estimate of costs

This is the first costs projection.
mirrorswarm cost projection.ods
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by John
Thu Jan 16, 2020 12:11 am
Forum: Deep Thought
Topic: An outline of requirements
Replies: 1
Views: 111594

Re: An outline of requirements

A lot of vocabulary can be gleaned from the attached study done by NASA ten years ago, laying out "Architectures and objectives trade space evaluated for cost, risk, performance" for a 22-day Mercury lander mission to sample the surface.
by John
Sun Jan 12, 2020 12:54 pm
Forum: Deep Thought
Topic: An outline of requirements
Replies: 1
Views: 111594

An outline of requirements

design a hardware fabrication package ("fab") to carry a bootstrap supply of refiners, builders, power generation, power distribution design a control centre specify and design surface remediation for the site once the swarm is deployed when it all works on paper, build the fab and control centre. O...
by John
Sun Jan 12, 2020 11:15 am
Forum: Deep Thought
Topic: Vacuum contamination
Replies: 0
Views: 601657

Vacuum contamination

If we refine with isotope separation and lose all the gases to the environment, we will at some point permanently contaminate the vacuum on which the process relies. That will happen before the 1% swarm is complete. The numbers are on https://mirrorswarm.com/wiki/index.php/Chemistry The vacuum is vi...
by John
Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:42 am
Forum: Management
Topic: The site is open
Replies: 2
Views: 127238

Re: The site is open

The forum rejects registration and posts from any IP, username or email address blacklisted at stopforumspam.com and has a deterrent captcha before sending verify requests. The site management apologizes for the inconvenience but it does reduce manual spam intervention to a couple a week instead of ...
by John
Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:02 pm
Forum: Management
Topic: Avoid proprietary or patented technology where it is applicable
Replies: 0
Views: 94401

Avoid proprietary or patented technology where it is applicable

I'm thinking particularly of the microcontroller directing each minibot, of which there will end up being a large number made on site. If anyone knows of open source hardware in this area, please make a note here and we'll follow it up. It needs to be capable of production on silicon, and surface mo...
by John
Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:15 am
Forum: Management
Topic: Where to find the wiki
Replies: 0
Views: 142163

Where to find the wiki

https://mirrorswarm.com/wiki

That is the planning site.

Add content there. Just use the edit links.
by John
Fri Jan 03, 2020 7:46 pm
Forum: Management
Topic: The site is open
Replies: 2
Views: 127238

Re: The site is open

I just had to clear browser cookies to log back on here, I'm not sure why.
by John
Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:33 pm
Forum: Management
Topic: The site is open
Replies: 2
Views: 127238

The site is open

This is the forum at mirrorswarm.com/forum

The wiki is at mirrorswarm.com/wiki

At the moment, separate registration is needed on each.
by John
Fri Jan 03, 2020 4:53 pm
Forum: Management
Topic: Welcome to phpBB3
Replies: 0
Views: 524728

Welcome to phpBB3

This is an example post in your phpBB3 installation. Everything seems to be working. You may delete this post if you like and continue to set up your board. During the installation process your first category and your first forum are assigned an appropriate set of permissions for the predefined user...