Discovery Channel in the Far Future

[RainOfSteel]

I wonder what a 57th Century "Discovery Channel" episode on MegaMachines would cover?

What's "mega" in a timeframe when million dTon battleships aren't anything to blink at? (Unless you're personally toe to toe . . .)

What about an episode of Monster Starship?

 

[Liam Devlin]

Hmmm, those massive semi-automated terra-forming machines for one, RoS.

 

[Liam Devlin]

And to be fair to the macro-scale...what about the nanomachines?

 

[mike wightman]

Nanomachines you say?

Just follow the links, and imagine what could be...

 

[mike wightman]

As for MegaMachines:
beanstalks
orbitals (from Iain M. Bank's Culture novels)
grav cities
dreadnought salvege ships
Stoner :devil

 

[Chuck Anumia]

Life Styles of the Rich and Powerful?

Ancient Artifact blunders?

Ring Worlds?

Celery injestion and affects on Treecats?

Psionic Manipulation of famous people?

I keep thinking it will be more like sensationalism rather than technological discoveries. Sorry

 

[RainOfSteel]

On today's episode of Monster Starship, the competing yards have one month apiece to rebuild a Plankwell, both wrecked in the Rim War two centuries ago and having been in a parking orbit in the Oort cloud of Dingir ever since.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

I think Mythbusters would be popular. Think of the kinds of urban legends in someplace as large as 3I space! Will putting sand in the liquid H2 tank ruin the engine? If you overpower the grav on an air/raft and "pop the clutch", will it have enough velocity to break orbit? What happens if you rub a Vargr in just that right spot below his tummy? Will his leg twitch?