Proto-Artificial Gravity

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Magnetism is the cousin of gravity.. so we as humans are very advanced in the understanding of magnetism, its a force we can easily control, so instead of outright trying to control its much beefier and wrestle-sum cousin gravity.. we should be working with the friendly cousin.. for reference I am going to term, Gravity is wild and Magnetism is tame.. and currently the present situation for humans, Gravity is like a wild animal.. but we have managed to tame Magnetism.. running electricity through coils in a magnet makes and electromagnet.. varying the current varies the strength of the magnetism..

So, if we were wearing a skintight suit made of flexible magnetic material, we would be drawn towards a magnetic force.

I am aware of centrifugal artificial gravity and am enthused about the natural way is behaves, however for situations where CAG becomes impractical, such as a space base on a solar world (planet/moon) magnetic artificial gravity would be a viable alternative.

Humans are made up of metal too.. the iron in our blood, spacefarers can experience pooling of blood in the head and face due to our hearts being used to gravity and having to work harder to pump the blood from our feet to our head, but in low or no gravity situations, this is not the case and so the blood pools in the head and face..

I suggest this is combined with 'weighted items'.. items that are corrected weighted for each solar body, take for example Mars..which has around 38% of the Earth's gravity, for items to be weighted correctly we need to fill up items with that other 62% of weight.. it should be noted that items should not contain any metals, as the magnetic artificial gravity would influence the weight of the items.. well this is all very complicated.. yes it can contain metal.. but only once much more experimenting  had been done.

Rocks of two different sized fall at the same speed. this is how Gravity behaves.
But not so much its cousin..
Magnetism will latch on to the largest polarized object, making an attracting force..
so something to watch out for there.

These are my thought so far.. one very large electromagnet underneath the core habitat of a space base, skintight suits of flexible metal, even woven tiny pockets with the metal in those pockets in a lattice of metal beads across the body.. I couldn't find which metal is the heaviest natural (non alloy) magnetic metal, but use that and just increase the current.. maybe..

hope these ideas go out into the ether.. and reach someone who can do these things or at least try them..

Dava

Self-Driving Mini-Copters are the Future.. and here's why I think that..

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In this article/work of hopeful fiction  I say we have mini-copters..


Self-Driving Mini-Copters are the Future.. and here's why I think that..

With self-driving cars.. it's a noble pursuit.. however, cars only have 8 directions of travel on one plane of movement.. however a helicopter has 26 directions of travel across three planes of movement (the extra ones being up and down)..

The skies are pretty empty, and giving an AI an extra 18 options to avoid collision is smart.

I *imagine* we could have personal mini-copters.. these would be around half the size of a car and carry one or two passengers. Inside would be sparse, and designed to be totally self cleaning.. like those self cleaning toilets that spray themselves and then dry themselves.

I don't know whether or not people should own the mini-copters or they should be provided by the government. If you own it.. then you are responsible for it.. however if these are owned by the government it wouldn't matter which copter you were using and the first nearest available one would come to you.

Taxi
As an automated taxi service..this could be potentially a good business however, morally, if they just replace taxis.. which are ultra expensive to ride in.. then no, it's not moral. People should just use a taxi. If these vehicles were  forced to keep their prices 1/10th of national average taxi prices by law and governmental regulation acts.. then yes, I could see how that could both make money for an entrepreneur and benefit humanity.

AI.

Right now.. AI isn't great.. if you have ever played a game where the AI has to control a vehicle.. games like Far Cry and Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft) let you do this.. these are the *good* examples of AI.. and even they are not perfect. Every so often they will make a judgement call and it will be a bad one.. but as humans we could see it was bad.

Flying would be very different.. as we could go up and down.. I think AI could cope with that. In games it's really bad.. but if you could teach the AI about air traffic control.. much less so.

these are my thoughts and I am bit tired and need a smoke..

Live long and prosper!

Dava