[SOT] Whale Habitats?

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"

>First off, I don't know Jack about whales. It would seem to me that
>they may not need the full 1 gravity effect. You may consider a zero-
>g habitat. Let's say it's a cylinder. Don't rotate it at all. Fill
>the thing up with water and create a biozone with an underwater
>ecology.

>If you need to rotate it, still fill it up with water, and just
>rotate as much as needed.

>Consider that 1 liter of water weighs 1 kg. Figure out the loads on
>the habitat shell from that and just pull up some specs on material
>characteristics to see what is possible.

>TangoMan

Whales are mammels, if you fill the whole cylinder with water they won't be
able to breathe.

Jennie