On 3/12/2010 3:25 PM, David Spain wrote:


Keep extending along Truss 1? Close off the inner modules as they become
inhabitable? Like an orbital Scrabble(tm) game.

I don't know if Truss 1 allows that, and there is the problem of
aerodynamic drag to consider; it's designed the way it is so that drag
doesn't throw it out of alignment as it orbits.
Although the idea of a space station that has a abandoned and decaying
"inner city" section to it as it expands into the suburbs has a great
Babylon 5 feel to it. :-D
The old core section will be where the giant yellow worms live:
http://www.anomalist.com/reports/mir.html
....and evolve into... THE GREEN SLIME!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKESo2ofEcw
I could swear I saw an old episode of Dr. Who where he fought those same
things, and defeated them by being wittier than they were.

Pat