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Speaking of the Stanford Torus
I now note, on my page at
http://www.quadibloc.com/science/spaint.htm where I showed a design for a *small* space habitat which could be shielded from all angles against even cosmic rays, how the Stanford Torus design could be modified to provide the same level of shielding based on the same principle. John Savard http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html _________________________________________ Usenet Zone Free Binaries Usenet Server More than 140,000 groups Unlimited download http://www.usenetzone.com to open account |
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Speaking of the Stanford Torus
John Savard,
I like your "Space Habitat" design work. Unlike our NASA that's still hooked deep in Apollo damage control mode, at least you're sharing a great deal as to what's technically doable, especially if it were established within the nearby safety and efficiency of the LL-1 zone. http://www.quadibloc.com/science/spaint.htm However, why even bother with all the spendy and damn risky R&D of establishing an LEO or L-whatever "Space Habitat", or even for that matter of any notions of ever having a permanent Moon Based Habitat of basis of operations when we can simply rent or lease volumes of habitat/hotel facilities and services from the Chinese LSE-CM/ISS (aka Lunar Space Elevator)? With the Chinese CM/ISS having 1e6 m3 to start off with, and of there being absolutely no limits as to enlarging upon that volume that's surrounded by a structural shield of 50t/m2, to becoming at least worth offering something greater than 1e9 m3, and of that infrastructure providing such a safe abode (AKA space depot/spaceport or interplanetary pitstop) that's so easy and efficient for getting ourselves and whatever tonnage to/from LL-1 because, it's obviously so gosh darn nearby and so nicely gravity aligned (not to mention having deployed a tether dipole element that's within 4r of mother Earth), and otherwise efficiently operating from it's own resources with terawatts to spare, thus why should yourself or even "Branson and Bigelow" bother with having to establish their own space habitat/hotel, or that of any other space-depot or perhaps even suggesting that of having your own moon-base of operations that'll only have to be entirely underground, especially since the lobby of this one and only Lunar Space Elevator that's to be owned and operated by China should in of itself offer us yet another robust 1e9 m3 facility. Do you speak a little Chinese, or do you know of someone that does? - Brad Guth |
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