Precursor Engineering

The shattered diet A method of weight loss that has the following features: Easy to remember Easy to implement Easy to start Easy to re-start Immediate weight loss impact Lack of feeling of hunger Ability to adapt to individual nutritional needs Ability to adapt to available food resources Decouples from using hydration as a weight loss mechanism Can work in tandem with other lifestyle choices Gym / exercise / physical regieme Socialising, e.g. going out and eating at restaurants, having cake. ---

Long duration human space flight Long duration human space flight is a project to work out methods, issues, solutions and related to facilitate human expansion though the galaxy, universe and potentially beyond. Issues Nutrition Cold Possible solutions Frozen outer layer of epidermis and fat as a protection against cold. Requirement Fine control over human physical condition E.g. human nutrition solutions such as weight-gain and weight-loss, fat-gain and fat-loss, muscle-gain and muscle-loss Incompatible tech E.g. technology and cable upgrades mid-flight, inability to connect legacy devices to new systems.  Inc. things like language if on-flight evolution occurs. (c.f. Children of Time) Approaches Weight loss E.g. use existing shattered diet mechanism - SJH - write this up. --- Precursor references The shattered diet

Landfill mining Landfill mining is the business of processing waste on landfill sites for the materials thrown away.  These materials may include metals and plastics in consumer goods.  Similar to recycling.  Potentially a feeder industry to pure recycling in a compositional free market. Features: Features might include Landfill site location, identification and recording Landfill content isolation from environment - e.g. addressing saline leeching Degassing Landfill content separation and identifiction Risks: Landfills can be a repository of cultural materials in a consumable form.  As such early reclamation of material and unconsidered pulping might lead to cultural data loss.  Such a loss might be most noticed if an informational singularity were to be encountered. ---

Precursor engineering website A website designed and deployed to facilitate the collective design of precursor project. Features: General Ability to take input from anonymous contributors Ability for pages to be curated and protected against malicious damage and corruption Backup of content and structure Easy to develop Easy for contributors to access and navigate information Ability to focus on single projects Easy for browsers to access and navigate information Engineering oriented Ability to create and elaborate structural designs Ability to hold multiple design solutions for point complexities Ability to construct complex wider solutions by composing more atomic elements Ability to identify issues that require thought and understanding to facilitate progress More thought: Is a contributor awareness license required to indicate that all ideas added by contributors will go public domain forever? ---

Index --- This page acts as a (potentially incomplete) list of the jump in points for precursor engineering projects. Gravitational accelerator Hands-off waldos Landfill mining Precursor engineering website Environmental spheres Environmental wells

Hands-off waldos --- Hands-off waldos are tools that can be used to manipulate matter at a distance (according to present day tools). An example is the use of an electromagnetic field to manipulate charged particles.  E.g. collider rings. An example is the use of gravitational accelerators to manipulate black holes.  For example, as might (using pure speculation) be found at the gravitation centre of Oumuamua. --- Connections to sub pages will appear here.

Gravitational accelerators --- Gravitational accelerators are structured gravitational wells that can be used to accelerate and direct payloads (such as spheres used for long-distance, long-duration travel) in a given direction at celestial scale. --- Connections to sub pages will appear here.

Environmental wells Environmental wells is a nascent concept within surface and celestial engineering that is the use of hollow topologies that can be used to maintain an environment separated from its near vicinity, e.g. in space. An example is the use of spin around some focal point to apply outward force which is maintain environment in a beaker-like structure. An example is the use of an existing gravitational well to maintain an environment in a suspended beaker-like structure. --- Connections to sub pages will appear here.

Environmental spheres This page acts as the main jump in point for the precursor engineering project to construct spheres that wrap celestial objects or space with the intention of constructing a habitable environment either within or in close proximity outside the sphere. An initial design focus of spheres is to have the habitable environment bound to the sphere, such that as the sphere moves so does the habitable environment. --- Connections to sub pages will appear here.