super-bubble world

and would have really good radiation and meteoroid shielding

servus

markus

Am 19.11.2017 um 16:39 schrieb wlm_efn@... [spacesettlers]:
> Cylindricals could be put into these, and so enjoy the best of both worlds.
> A 100 km large bubble could easily fit several Island Three sized habitats.
>
> In _The Millennial Project_ something like this was imagined, like this
> image:
>
> http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070426003607/tmp2/images/a/ab/Plate14.jpg
>
> sailor.barsoom wrote:
> > I suppose another question might be: why would anybody want to live in a
> > zero-G world? But assuming that a large number of people did want to
> > bubbles in the size range you suggest should do the job just fine. If
> just a
> > whole huge lot of people do, they can build a dozen or a thousand of
> them.
>
> I could see these as exotic resort destinations, though. Maybe even with
> genegineered "wildlife" based on birds, bats, pterosaurs, bugs and fish.
> Strange "sky sailing" races could be held, and as I mentioned earlier,
> just about any zero-G sport one cares to imagine. But even that is
> unlikely to require more than 500 Km or so. Although, I suppose the
> dimmer parts near the center of a huge one could be where you go for night.
>

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