Living quarters for the construction crew.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"

>
>ISS is, among other things, a zero-G hotel.

so you think the countries building space station freedom will just
turn it over to some buisness to rent out to the extreamly rich. they
are the only ones that could afford to go up in the shuttle. in case
your not aware, they decided not to use the shuttle for anything but
trips to the station. even then it will take many years before they
finish the experments they have planned now. so when does it become a
hotel.
>
> Well, yeah. Whatever hotel or construction shack or whatever, you
> need to have people in space to use space resorces. So the first
> facilities will have to be launched from Earth. Indeed, we have
> already started that.
>
no actually, the best way to do the first part is to use robots to do
the first part, then send a crew in after the inital part is finished
to the point of being as safe as possible.
>
> Absolutely. We should start using lunar and/or astroidial resorces
as
> soon as possible. But if we state that we can't do stuff with space
> resorces until we do stuff with space resorces, it becomes
> chicken-or-egg.

no. we use robots to do the initial mining of an asteroid, then a
crew takes a bare minimum of needed stuff with them (the rest already
there) and they build it via remote control from inside the asteroid.
with the asteroid spinning, it would be like working in a office
building on earth save that the lag time for transmitions would be
lowered. in a matter of months they would have a facility on the new
station for them to live in and would not have any lag what so ever.
the entire time they would not be under zero g. you could even sell
tickets to the very rich to spend a week or so on the astroid.
accomidations would be rather sparce, but would be getting better.

It's just like the colonists arriving in the New
> World: the original ships had to be built in Europe, but to get
> anywhere, they had to use resorces from the New World itself. It
> wouldn't work if every mutton chop and wooden board came from
England
> or Spain or wherever. But the first Nina, Pinta, Mayflower, and so
on
> couldn't be built in the New World, because the builders had to get
> here first. Now I'm repeating myself.
>
so the ships should be built on earth and the station built using
materials from space, just like the pilgrams did.
>
> Yeah. The huge "Constellation" type of hotels (ten thousand tons,
650
> passengers) will need lunar and/or astroidial resorces....

unless i mistaken an opject that is capable of warp 9, is armed with
photon torpedos and phaser banks, would not be concidered a hotel.

...But the "ISS
> for civilians" things at the beginning will be launched from Earth,
> rocket costs and all.
>
> First launched-from-Earth, then
> launched-from-Earth-but-expanded-with-ET-resorces (perhaps only a
> layer of moondust as radiation shielding at first), then
> mostly-from-space-with-a-little-bit-launched-from-Earth, and
> eventually from-space-with-little-or-nothing-launched-from-Earth.
>

why not skip the first and second and go straight to the third. its
cheaper, safer and can be done now.