https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/h-cannon.html

Femtotech
If Professor A.A. Bolonkin’s theories of synthesizable femtotech nuclear matter are correct here is a way to use it to colonize the Galaxy at 16% light speed.

What if we get super-tech—femtotech and the capabilities of controlled nuclear matter
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/11/starbase-jupiter-and-other-femtotech.html


Background information on femtotech by Brian covering the concept https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/10/femtotechnology-ab-needles-fantastic.html
Brian on Bolonkin paper on femto tech I helped edit
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2009/07/beyond-molecular-nanotechnology-is.html

A discussion about how bad radioactive contamination can be in nuclear drainage sumps  https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/sea-based-launch-option-for-nuclear.html
These posts explored the potential of deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion and what might be possible if tritium was not required for thermonuclear power generation.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/what-is-energy-content-of-earths-water.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/irritating-science-fiction-technical.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/02/which-is-cheaper-per-unit-of-energy.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/what-if-we-get-super-cheap-d-d.html

This post explored the fissionable metal requirements of an all-molten salt reactor powered world economy—

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/11/david-leblanc-explains-why-thorium.html

And the fissionable metal requirements of a nuclear space hopper to launch huge throughput to space easily. This post speculated on what if we just built the kind of flying nuclear reactor we could have built say in 1960 (steam rocket) versus the never built gas-core reactor in the Aldebaran and 2001 movie’s Discovery –a 12000 ton nuclear hopper.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/03/friedlanders-idea-for-nuclear-hopper.html

These posts are about the prospect of space industrialization, colonization and cool mission ideas.

The idea of lunar surface rendezvous, varied lunar landers and some conversation about iron-nickle content in lunar surface material.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/11/what-was-best-way-to-use-saturn-v-to.html

This pair of posts commented on the 300,000 ton a year lift model that a orbital nuclear arms race as in the movie 2001 would have required (600 Sea Dragon launches a year, or about an Aldebaran a month for that market alone)

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/05/where-did-future-go-strategy-of.html


https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/heinlein-style-spaceflight-with.html

An astonishing pdf of a 1964 Nuclear propulsive seminar from that era including a presentation by Max Hunter (not mine, but highly interesting) –If you want to know about the reactors Arthur C. Clarke imagined powering the 2001 spaceships, this was the science at the time. http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/lib-www/la-pubs/00403701.pdf  

 This post examined what would happen if we had a massive lunar rock processing and materials export capability– https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/03/lunar-silicon-vs-helium-3.html
  This post examined the buildup to such a capability https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/setting-up-industrial-village-on-moon.html
    Keeping the lunar vacuum pristine
   https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/friedlander-cold-crown-cold-trap-for.html
     https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/friedlander-cold-crown-2-conversation.html


   This post examined what we could do by using such a capability to construct massive solar sail shipyards in near Earth space and then going out and capturing multi-million ton asteroids with solar sails the size of the planet Mercury. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/after-lunar-industrial-village.html
Centauri Dreams covered that last article here http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=16145

    And this post explored industrial processes in space https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/new-space-age-materials-for-new-space.html (warning, very long)

This post examined the idea of using lunar industrialization to enable massive colonization—of Earth’s oceans (seasteading) https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/01/two-world-industrial-bootup-enabling.html

This post examined the possible effects of hyperwealth resulting from such space industrialization https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/hyperwealth-and-alternative-futures-by.html

Geopolitical consequences of geoengineering—

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/the-future-of-canal-transport-take.html Making rivers where we want them, not where the lay of the land puts them.

This post explored ways to export large mass from the earth cheaply. And remove a mass of salt like Africa from the oceans. Geoengineering over deep time.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/desalting-oceans-next-forty-thousand.html

38 percent of the world’s people live within 100 kilometers of a coast 44 percent of the world’s people live within 150 kilometers of a coast and nearly 50 percent of the world’s people live within 200 kilometers of a coast

These posts are about the ways human minds and their cognitive biases slow down the rate of possible change and technical progress.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/05/perceived-ludicrousness-levels-how.html


https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/post-by-professor-bruce-charlton-on-why.html

If we could increase the incidence of genius 10 times we would live in an entirely different world. Indeed such a transition would be singularity-like, dividing history into before and after periods (and raising the interesting question of diminishing returns or no).

One can imagine an analogue to the Gates Foundation but which recruits young geniuses and guides them through the maze Charlton describes. Only a small fraction of potential genius becomes actual genius–

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/robert-zubrin-on-technological-slowdown.html
Robert Zubrin on Technological Slowdown and the Need For Abundance And How A Space Frontier Would Help Make Our Society A Better Place To Live

Joseph Friedlander’s Thoughts Inspired By Alexander Bolonkin’s Writings On How To Catalyze Innovation And Technical Progress
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/03/joseph-friedlanders-thoughts-inspired.html

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/06/patent-nonsense-some-problems-with.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/does-war-bring-prosperity-or-is-it.html


My take  on Tyler Cowen’s Great Stagnation theory
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/02/tyler-cowens-great-stagnation-joseph.html
not mine but Brian’s take on Tyler Cowen’s Great Stagnation work https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/planning-to-breakthrough-great.html



Long wave speculations, discussion of politics and policy etc. (Not necessarily current views, just speculation on what if this worked?) Some are quite long.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/summary-of-dr-bruce-cordells.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/does-war-bring-prosperity-or-is-it.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/its-hurricane-season-and-theyve-hocked.html
Some discussion on waste of capital lives and potential by wrong turns in history.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/guest-post-by-friedlander-seventeen.html


Existential risks
staging-nextbigfuture.kinsta.cloud/2010/01/sun-explosion.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/01/sun-explosion.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24541542/Artificial-Explosion-of-Sun-AB-Criterion-for-Solar-Detonation (helped on English edition with Bolonkin)

(helped on English editions of below papers with A. V.  Turchin)

Other Bolonkin papers I have worked on in some (perhaps later than listed draft)

http://www.scribd.com/Bolonkin
http://www.scribd.com/doc/106653353/My-Publications-5-18-12
Also search arxiv for Bolonkin, Friedlander  
With Prof. Bolonkin many papers as proofreader/suggester etc but these are his papers
http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+bolonkin/0/1/0/all/0/1

You can search
site:staging-nextbigfuture.kinsta.cloud next big future joseph friedlander

About me

http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.joseph.friedlander

These posts are frankly geeky compilation of various industrial, scientiic and military statistics

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/ges-industrial-internet-world.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/square-mile-of-b-52s.html

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/01/technomass-and-biomass.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/what-was-total-yield-of-all-known.html 629 megatons of nuclear bombs have been detonated in tests. 452 megatons Soviet, 140 USA 7 megatons UK 10 megatons France and 20 megatons China. Plus under a megaton for India, Pakistan and North Korea and everyone else.

Inventions and ideas
The nanofork (way in the back) https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/hyperwealth-and-alternative-futures-by.html
Also the idea of a user community of mutual inventors assisting each other

Using McCarthy’s Skywire systems to sort entire cities
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/mccarthys-skywire-system-and-future-of.html

  Friedlander Cold Crown for the lunar poles to trap oxygen in solid form

   https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/friedlander-cold-crown-cold-trap-for.html
     https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/friedlander-cold-crown-2-conversation.html

Friedlander Oil Chimney
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/06/suggestion-on-dealing-with-deepwater.html

Nuclear Hopper for Cheap Space
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/03/friedlanders-idea-for-nuclear-hopper.html

Friedlander Sphere and chain direct sun power drive—femtotech and the capabilities of controlled nuclear matter
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/11/starbase-jupiter-and-other-femtotech.html

This post of mine explored a way to send probes to the stars cheaply. —The H-Cannon. Of course you may need to heliobrake at a million G’s to stop–

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/h-cannon.html


These posts are related to the Wang Bullet concept by Brian Wang which I helped develop with a great deal of back and forth. Some are written by Brian, some by me.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/sea-based-launch-option-for-nuclear.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/150-kiloton-nuclear-verne-gun.html

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2009/03/underground-nuclear-tests-salt.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2009/02/nuclear-orion-home-run-shot-all-fallout.html



These are not by me but Brian Wang but are on the general topic of space and are useful to me to have here as a general orientation
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2007/07/updating-project-orion-external-pulsed.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/03/how-low-can-costs-go-using-chemical.html

(nice discussion by Goat Guy about mass driver launchers there)
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/04/affordable-rapid-bootstrapping-of-space.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/what-are-near-and-long-term-advantages.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/gamma-ray-laser-could-be-built-with.html  1,000 GJ of energy, ten times the current engineering break-even value. The process can be repeated every 1000 sec to yield a 1 GW reactor as indicated in Figure 2 or a single DT detonation could be used to set off a 1 megaton blast using a cubic meter of liquid D2.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/05/gamma-ray-bending-opens-new-door-for.html?utm_source
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/12/micro-fusion-for-space-propulsion-and.html


A “super Marx generator” ultimately reaching gigavolt potentials with an energy output in excess of 100 megajoule. An intense 10 million Ampere-GeV proton beam drawn from a “super Marx generator” can ignite a deuterium thermonuclear detonation wave in a compressed deuterium cylinder, where the strong magnetic field of the proton beam entraps the charged fusion reaction products inside the cylinder.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/04/affordable-rapid-bootstrapping-of-space.html Not mine but links to mine

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2006/06/building-new-worlds-become-greatest.html
D-Day assault on space

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/the-biggest-economic-bootstrap-ever.html
space industrial bootup through  selling water to satellites
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/02/magnetic-catapult-feasible-advanced.html
Brian alone on Prof Smith’s work–relevant to Wang bullet g loading data
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/R7DfZLGVTtI/AAAAAAAAAFA/h3cPiSfkyS8/s400/BigRailgun3.JPG
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/R7DfFLGVTsI/AAAAAAAAAE4/gw87gDpbjxI/s400/BigRailgun2.JPG

Brian Wang written and  moonbase relevant
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/what-are-near-and-long-term-advantages.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/space-technologies-that-would-help.html?m=0
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/newt-plans-for-moon-base-and-using-ten.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/improved-spacex-merlin-engines-enable.html falcon heavy
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/01/transcript-and-video-newt-talking-about.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2012/03/real-historic-pe-capita-gdp-1969-to.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/11/telerobotics-and-telepresence-from.htmlcognitive Timescale is about half of one second

• Human reaction time for visual stimulus is ~200 ms, ~150 ms for audio (probably smaller for haptic)
• High performance online gaming depends on latencies of less than 100-­‐200ms
• Telerobotic surgery (cutting, suturing, knot tying) requires less than 500 ms
• Telerobotic mining (driving bulldozers, drilling) assume ~500 ms
• Drone piloting with latencies of ~1000 ms (but flying is easy!)

Two way communication range within the cognitive time is 75,000km

Tying a knot with 2 seconds latency can take ten minutes

Server Sky paper by Keith Lofstrom Server Sky, http://server-sky.com  in my discussions with him it emerged that –we can harvest essentially all of the solar energy for a K2 civilization as long as it is ~15 AU or so out

Scientific papers  and collaborative publications
Treeing the CATS: Artificial Gulf
Formation by the Chotts Algeria–Tunisia
Scheme
Nicola M. Pugno, Richard B. Cathcart and Joseph J. Friedlander
Book ISBN: 978-3-642-14778-4
V. Badescu and R. B. Cathcart (eds.), Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique
Environments, Environmental Science and Engineering,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14779-1_22,  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

With Alexander Bolonkin


missile defense paper

Protection of Cities from Small Rockets, Missiles, Projectiles and Mortar Shells
Alexander Bolonkin, Joseph Friedlander
(Submitted on 3 Feb 2008)
http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0315

anti nuclear reactor leak paper

“Transparent Inflatable
Column Film Dome for Nuclear Stations, Stadiums, and Cities” http://www.hindawi.com/journals/stni/2011/175492/

A Novel Macro-Engineering Approach to Seawater Desalination

• Alexander A. Bolonkin,
• Shmuel Neumann,
• Joseph J. Friedlander