The Discovery Enterprise: Coming this Fall: Naked Science - City Under the Sea

Sraj,
You'd have to figure out some complicated baffles to keep the water from
building, automatically, into tidal waves. Otherwise, with some preliminary
sculpting of the proposed seabed and with baffles added, There should be no
barrier to a rotating cylindrical waterworld for our cetacean friends and
other waterbreathing sentients. Of course, it'll take some extensive
practice with building Human habitats before we master the techniques
necessary to accomplish a waterworld habitat.
Victor.

From: sraj
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 10:23 PM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] The Discovery Enterprise: Coming this Fall:
Naked Science - City Under the Sea

Alex, I have a question.

In designing space habs you have to design the land area separate from the
water area. On space ship Earth there are elegant ways by which the two
interact and reinforce on another, ways that may be impractical in a space
hab.

My question is, is it possible to have a viable space hab where you have
only water? One example of this is the Dal Lake in Kashmir in India; even
human waste from house boats used to end up in the water (I don't know
whether this practice is still followed. The practice may not be suitable
beyond a certain population density). A lot of farming takes place on
floating reed beds!

Regards,
Selvaraj

On 30 October 2010 02:44, Alex Micael Bonnici wrote: