redesign of ONeill cylinder mirrors

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: redesign of ONeill cylinder mirrors

# 6236 bytango_dancer@... on Jan. 17, 2005, 11:47 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Anton Sherwood wrote:
> victoriatangoman wrote:
> > For the "light tube" where does the light come from?
>
> The "hatbox" design has a small window in one pole of the habitat
(which
> is otherwise entirely shielded), and a parabolic mirror at mid axis to
> distribute the light (leaving the other pole in twilight). That's not
> the only possible approach!

What's to stop the window material from melting?

TangoMan