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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by MereInterest on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:44PM (#20308139)
You could have the facility move constantly to keep the facility straddled across the sunlight line. At the equator, this would require constantly moving at about 7 mph, though you could reduce the speed necessary by moving to higher latitudes.
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by akozak on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:10PM (#20308374)
Appears in 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by joshgel on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:37PM (#20308589)
They move the whole city around the planet at 7mph!! 10/10 would recommend
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by taneq on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:46PM (#20310048)
Sounds like Absolution Gap and/or a less annoying version of the Mortal Engines movie (please tell me the book was better than this).
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by _jal on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:39PM (#20310462)
Also features in Charlie Stross, Saturn's Children.
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by SECProto on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:10PM (#20308811)
Or another scifi novel, West of January by Dave Duncan.
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by pcnix on Sunday June 30, 2019 @09:31AM (#20318100)
Also appears in Asimov's classic "I, Robot" collection, as a Powell and Donovan story called "Runaround"[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround_(story)

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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by madaxe_again on Saturday June 29, 2019 @07:01AM (#20311897)
To add to the vein of sci-fi novels using this idea: Inverted World by Christopher Priest. Well, similar concept but weirdified in the 1970’s fashion.
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by gbrown on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:55PM (#20308235)
Yeah but if you break down...
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by greglindahl on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:06PM (#20309886)
Like in the scifi books?
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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by foota on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:09PM (#20308361)
Reminds me of the book Absolution Gap
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