International Space Settler Society

Hi Andy

check out this website:

http://www.spaceislandgroup.com

they describe something fairly similar to what you propose, and they
also have floorplans...

:) ed

--- In spacesettlers@y..., andy-nimmo wrote:
> Hi Lucio,
>
> I must admit I've been looking at the space hotel scene also
lately. I'm
> attempting to write the first six episodes of a potential TV soap
> situated in a space hotel right now so have had to do quite a bit of
> research - and put considerable thought into what-would-happen-if
type
> scenarios.
>
> The hotel the series is based on has four cross-shaped habitations
(made
> from launch rocket tanks) spinning - two in one direction and two
in the
> other - on long cables around the ends of a cylindrical centre that
does
> not spin itself. The cylindrical centre is where the zero-g
facilities
> such as the entrances and exits, gymnasium, space ballet theatre,
and
> various space industry businesses are situated. There are cable
cars to
> the habitations which are at 1 G.
>
> There's an armoured centre to each cross to protect against
radiation.
> One cross is English speaking, one Russian speaking, one Japanase
(they
> own the hotel), and one variable. One arm of each cross is
hydroponic
> gardens, another is common rooms such as restaurant and dance floor
> etc., and the other two are for crew and passengers' cabins.
>
> As you'll appreciate, the regular characters are the crew, and they
live
> up there, with periodic holidays on Earth - for their health apart
from
> anything else. As you'll appreciate I have had all sorts of
problems to
> solve with this, and no doubt more will come up before I've
finished,
> but my point in bringing it up here is simply that this is an embryo
> space settlement, at least for the crew.
>
> Best wishes, Andy.
>
> "Dr. Omni" wrote:
>
> > From: "Ian Woollard"
> > To:
> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] International Space Settler Society
> >
> > [snikt]
> > > I guess the only question is to whether we could include
Tourism in
> > > this; I think we could, as it's easy to see how a space hotel
leads
> > > to O'Neill settlements- in fact a space hotel may BE a standard
> > > O'Neill structure.
> > >
> > When I said that our yet hypothetical I3S should stuck to the O'
> > Neilian
> > ideas, perhaps my statement was to restrictive. The O' Neilians
idea
> > that I
> > was thinking of was the one commonly agree here: space habitats,
not
> > planetary surfaces, are the best place for a technological
> > civilization.
> > Now, the *ways* to finally materialize space settlements may
indeed be
> >
> > pretty diversified. O' Neil thought of SSP, but now I think that
space
> >
> > tourism is a very promising way to get there. And yes, a rotating
> > space
> > hotel in LEO can be seen as a kind of embryonic space
settlement...
> >
> > [snikt]
> > > --
> > > - Ian Woollard (ian.woollard@t...)
> > >
> > > "Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding
> > > technological civilization?"
> > > - Gerard O'Neill
> >
> > Lucio Coelho
>
Service.