Stability of L points

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Stability of L points

# 761 byqwerty172@... on Jan. 31, 2001, 10:18 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

This is why I have been arguing since day one, that the whole thing
would need to have active positio controls.

Bill

--- In spacesettlers@y..., phoebos@w... wrote:
> There is one small factor no one has mentioned yet. The solar wind
is
> not constant, as a matter of fact, all the recent coronal mass
ejections
> would wreak havoc on trying to keep this structure stable.
Granted,
> the solar wind is usually predictable, but when you are talking
about
> such a large and expensive structure, well.....it is my experience
that
> Murphy's Law would come into play in a big way. And a massive CME
is