Continued from Re: Can the Moon be given an earthlike atmosphere?
I think I am finally on the same page with you, and this is it:
http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/75SummerStudy/Design.html
It is the Stanford Torus Study.
Please forgive my ignorance, as it has taken me a while to get to this
point, and it will take me another while to digest all the material on
that site.
The Stanford Torus seems to answer my concerns about depressurization
in that the population can shelter down below the main concourse in
the event it becomes depressurized. This answers my need for
compartmentation.
I also see that the Stanford Torus has potential for many variants,
such as noncircular cross-sections, bundled toruses (side-by-side)
nested (concentric) toruses, etc. There is much fertile ground here
for conjecture and discussion.
Jolly Roger ;-)X
Please forgive my ignorance, as it has taken me a while to get to this
point, and it will take me another while to digest all the material on
that site.
If you haven't already, I'd also recommend reading Heppenheimer's two books, which talk quite a bit more about the Stanford Torus than does O'Neill's "The High Frontier":
Colonies in Space by T. A. Heppenheimer, 1977, Warner Books, ISBN: 0-446-81-581-0
Toward Distant Suns by T. A. Heppenheimer, 1979, Stackpole Books, ISBN: 0-449-90035-5 The Stanford Torus seems to answer my concerns about depressurization
in that the population can shelter down below the main concourse in
the event it becomes depressurized. This answers my need for
compartmentation.
It might interest you to know that there's also the potential for compartmentalization around the torus. It's supposed to be divided into 6 equal segments (3 residential sections alternating with 3agricultural sections) with bulkheads in-between.
I also see that the Stanford Torus has potential for many variants,
such as noncircular cross-sections, bundled tori (side-by-side)
nested (concentric) tori, etc. There is much fertile ground here
for conjecture and discussion.
Regards,
Mike Combs
In a message dated 4/18/2007 6:56:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mikecombs@... writes: If you haven't already, I'd also recommend reading Heppenheimer' s two books, which talk quite a bit more about the Stanford Torus than does O'Neill's "The High Frontier":
Colonies in Space by T. A. Heppenheimer, 1977, Warner Books, ISBN: 0-446-81-581- 0
Toward Distant Suns by T. A. Heppenheimer, 1979, Stackpole Books, ISBN: 0-449-90035- 5 Copies of both of these bookscan now be read online as part of the Space Settlement section of the website of the National Space Society. The total Space Settlement section now exceeds 10,000 pages and obviously has a great deal of additional material on Space Settlements that may be of interest. See http://www.nss.org/settlement/ Mark Hopkins
> Copies of both of these books can now be read online as part of the
> Space Settlement section of the website of the National Space Society.
> The total Space Settlement section now exceeds 10,000 pages and
> obviously has a great deal of additional material on Space Settlements
> that may be of interest. See
> _http://www.nss.org/settlement/_ (http://www.nss.org/settlement/)
>
> Mark Hopkins
I have been wanting to re-read these for some time.