BizarIdea

--- In spacesettlers@y..., "Xenophile" wrote:
> --- In spacesettlers, "victoriatangoman" wrote:
>
> > I just had a very bizarre inspiration for a habitat design
> > tonight.
> > Was out for dinner and the waiter brought a bottle of wine and I
> > looked at the corkscrew in his hand and . . .
> >
> > How about a corkscrew colony. No jokes please!
> >
> > It could be like a torus, but any time we wanted to add capacity
> > we could.
>
> OK, there's GOTTA be something wrong with this idea. IT just
seems
> so resonable, even obvious once it's pointed out. Hhhmmmnn........
>
> You might eventually wind up with something very like a banded
torus.
>
> Xenophile (raising glass of "Spacemanti" to your idea)

The first criticism that comes to my mind is that as it is spinning
the mass distribution of the corkscrew would alter the spin. But
that's just a guess. Maybe somebody who knows the physics can
comment.

And I raise a glass of "asto spacemanti" to you.