Kalpana one Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Kalpana one
# 7685 byspider_boris@... on May 1, 2006, 3:40 p.m.
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--- "Combs, Mike" wrote:
> somebody that he
> didn't really care all that much for the Stanford
> Torus design. When
> pressed, one criticism he offered was that in an
> emergency requiring
> evacuation, you would be dependent on elevators to
> get you up to the
> spin axis. He was much more comfortable with
> designs which allowed
> residents to get up to the spin axis on their own
> power.
>
Elevators? Who says that the spokes have to be
straight?
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Ed Minchau
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