How to build a PressuVessel?

Mike,

Yes, 40 feet. I have been away for some time and have
not seen all the postings yet. Since mid 1980, I have
been in various groups that have been looking at
developing structures and habitats on the Moon. It
was common to find very large items like this.

Joe Russo
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--- tomexe wrote:
> --- In spacesettlers@y..., "Combs, Mike"
> wrote:
> > From: tomexe [mailto:tomexe@a...]
> >
> > the original
> > Island 3 design called for windows almost 40 feet
> thick
> >
> > Is this right? Four feet I could almost buy, but
> 40 feet? I ask
> because it
> > seems like I once went back to O'Neill's original
> Physics Today
> article
> > trying to find the thickness of the glass, and
> couldn't find it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mike Combs
>
> I was suprised too, In fact the first time I saw the
> figures I misred
> them and thought the windows were only 3m thick. But
> the glass panes
> are built up from 3m cubes of vitreous sillica
> glass. They way Dyffed
> Dyar wrote his page I thought that he was refering
> to O'Neal when he
> was discussing this construction. I got it from here
>
http://www.dyarstraights.com/msgundam/frontier.html#OpenType