Thoughts on the station's biosystem

if you didn't check already this site there are some
interesting data about sopace settlements population
and
actvitieshttp://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/Contest/
I am currently working with an international group of
students in a n entirely new design called ringworld
which we will formally present next year at the Asce
space architecture convention as a paper.
Such design is based on a modular system, each module
allowing around 1000\150o people and completely
independent.
Expansion possibilities are unlimted and we foresee a
design of an entirely artificial planet with
artificial gravity for a population in the billion
order of magnitude.
all functions are being considered , inclusive the
breeding of small genetic engineered small animals
(fish, shellfish and poultry) plus an agricultural
area mixed with the other functions in a multistory
solution in order to optimize space utilization.
--- Felicia ha scritto:

> 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