Asteroids are weird, when compared to the cohesive wholes of planets. There’s the rocks, which may have dubious integrity, depending on their origin. Then you have the rubble asteroids that are basically balls of dirt that decided to hang out together. And lastly, you have the solid iron lumps.

As far as structural integrity’s concerned, bank on…[Read more]

I just ran some numbers and vertical farming is going to have to be the way to go. Assuming a stable population of five hundred[Minimum population necessary for long-term thinking], each needing four acres of flat farm, you’d wind up with an internal radius of about two kilometres. Just for growing food.

Obviously, farming need not be defined as…[Read more]

Have you heard of styrofoam concrete? It’s where they make concrete with styrofoam replacing the rocks. It’s light, cheap and flexible, and may just have the extra buoyancy you’d need for this kind of project.

The other alternative would be using pumice stone in your concrete mix… but the disadvantage with pumice is that it erodes very easily.…[Read more]

Well, if you want to be completely accurate, your ‘valve’ already exists: https://www.newmalecontraception.org/risug/ [with the bonus that it also destroys STD’s]

As it stands, it’s day surgery and not easily switched back and forth, but one can imagine an implanted shunt to perform the honours and an attachable ‘on’ or ‘off’ syringe.

The hue…[Read more]

Here’s one question: Why must there be manual control at all?

It’s the future. We can do what we want.

It would be just as easy to posit a fertility control with neural links integrated into the brains and senses of those who have it. Perhaps with some variety of transhumanist visual cue… All you’d need is a passphrase and to read and mentally…[Read more]

1) Men already use sex to enforce power
2) Men also already use reproduction to enforce power
3) Men already fake using protection because it “feels better” without giving a fig for their partner

A vasectomy valve would only make things more difficult for those on the wrong end of the power dynamic. [eg: “He said he had his reproduction turned…[Read more]