Human Relationships in a Habitat

On Wednesday 01 October 2003 15:55, victoriatangoman wrote:
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> I agree. Also, can a Habitat be built with no interior buildings and
> then have them added later? What would that do to the Habitat
> rotation and load balancing? Do you have to build equally around the
> Habitat in order not to have too much mass on one side of the
> Habitat? If so, then your city can't grow organically, it'll have to
> grow in a planned progression.
>
> Perhaps the interior buildings will have to be built before anyone
> moves in.

I mumbled about this some time ago and the conclusions that I reached were:

1) If the total mass of buildings is negligible compared, for instance, to
shielding, then you can grow your city organically. Here "negligible" means:
the amount of wobble produced by an uneven distribution of buildings would
have to be neither noticeable by people nor stressfull to the structure. That
is, it would need calculation and the establishment of limits to construction
in each habitat.
Interestingly, in country-sized habitats (yes, they are possible in
theory), that would allow an uneven distribution of mountains and inland
seas.
2) Another alternative is to provide an active "load balance" mechanism for
your habitat. One that I imagined was:
- Put a lot of non-connected lakes along the inner surface of the habitat.
- Monitor the wobble of the habitat with sensors (accelerometers, gyros,
whatever).
- Pump water from one lake to the other in order to cancel wobble.

> TangoMan
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Lucio