h (Rand Simberg) wrote:

:On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:12:35 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
:Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
:such a way as to indicate that:
:
:It would have been a real bitch to get crew and supplies to this thing:
:http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/22/its-new-4/
:Thank God for miniaturized electronics.
:Notice anything missing?
:The station has no obvious means of generating electrical power (I
:assume the dishes are uplink-downlink communication arrays, not solar
:collectors, although they do seem to be pointing toward the Sun).
:
:You could do it with a nuke, but there's no obvious way of rejecting
:the heat...
:

Come on, guys. The heat is used for environmental control. This is a
whacking great object in space. In those days it would probably have
been assumed that getting rid of heat in the cold of space would not
be a problem.


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