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Presumably you would be orbiting a planet which would make a pretty cool scene. I liked B5 in that it rotated on an axis, so it wasn't just an outside strip that was livable with gravity but the entire inner lining. And a zero G spot dead center on the axis. I don't know if that's how it would work, but it made for good story material. Something I liked about Halo was that it was set on a ring world. Outside you could look up and see the ring, then dive into the infrastructure the next scene.
It'd be a pretty cool scene for sure, but unless I was born in space I can't imagine walking out of the front door of my ranch on a space station for any extended period of time. It's not the same!
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I remember those renderings from when I was a kid. I always thought they were cool, but would never be built in the timeframes usually discussed in the articles, and so far I've been right
I saw this the other day, and thought about picking one up for nostalgia purposes:
Looks a lot like the space station you see in 2001 but with only one ring structure instead of two.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Leaded glass can reduce the amount of radiation getting passed through, but the added expense... yikes!
For a massive space structure, it would make more sense to use the water and soil as shielding. The humongous windows throughout the entire station would not be practical.
Actually, it's a common myth that glass causes radiation.
False.
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LOL, you're right - glass doesn't cause radiation - it just does jack nothing to stop it from coming in!
Not to mention micro-meteorites. Yikes!
I've got a book on my bookshelf I bought in the '70s titled 'Space Colonies'. I remember reading it and hoping to be able to visit a station like one in the book when I was grown up.
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#4098226 - 03/28/1501:03 AMRe: 1970's concept designs for life in space
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That design is actually unusable - it is unstable, the large ring isn't massive enough, so the narrow cylinder dominates, and its rotation wants to spontaneously flip into the state where the most mass is farthest away from the rotation axis, ie. end over end. By the time you have enough mass in the large ring to prevent this, you have a completely different design, more like this