Thoughts on the station's biosystem

> Given the choice of living in a copy of central park or a
> copy of Bucktooth
> Alabama, I'd choose central park. IMHO, it's more
> impractical to expect
> people to want to live in a space farm than it is to have
> a separate food
> ring.

Putting aside the stereotypes of Alabama, I am certain
that at least I would rather live in a farming community
than in a planned park. Certainly, our differing opinions
indicates that there ought to be a choice.

> You might also consider that every additional isolated
> airtight volume as a
> potential life boat if anything happened to the main
> habitat.

This is true. What kind of safety precautions were built
into the original design of the O'Neill cylinder? Also,
has everyone seen the design changes proposed in Space
Oases: The Next Generation
(http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/papers/reinv_so.htm)?
Any thoughts on those? -- Felicia