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Posted on 12/23/2006 11:31:23 AM PST by BibleBabe1
I'd be happy to help out with any plant rooms we might need to keep everything self-sustaining...
Despite there being over a million asteroids, they would make a very unsatisfying planet.
Besides, why make a planet that you have to launch space probes from to get into space and build bases, when you've already got all this material in orbit?
The Flying Castle is already a planet of sorts. We have artificial gravity. The three Habitats rotate around a common center, taking turns hosting Daytime, so that whoever is on watch is at maximum alertness. It also gives us a lot of area to grow plants and house living space and laboratories.
That makes it a convenient location from which to do space exploration. Or treasure hunting among the asteroids.
And Ceres has long been regarded as the main body of the asteroid belt. It is expected that many space pioneeers will live under its soil. It actually has enough mass to have gravity. Much less than the moon, but hey, it's great for space games!
That's a lot of work, but it's very satisfying. Insect pollenizing doesn't always work out in space, but some plants function better without it. Of course, that means someone has to do the work ...
Darn flowers have the oddest sex habits.
I was merely thinking in terms of increasing the overall mass of the Flying Castle to bump up our kinetic energy level enough to help fling us out beyond the Solar System.
Besides, we will need some company traveling through interstellar space--It's a long way to the closest star.
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Wow--some really smart people around here.
Of course, this is FreeRepublic!
Either that, or that test is too easy.
"... we will need some company traveling through interstellar space--It's a long way to the closest star."
The easiest way to get them is the old-fashioned way. Any trip to the stars with our current technology would take generations.
We have to be careful about adding mass. We will have to accelerate it, and then decelerate at the end. We want to be "lean and mean." Well, maybe not mean, just prepared.
We will need "defenses"; against space debris if nothing else. We also need to accelerate our reaction gases to the highest rate possible. I'll take care of that, but we don't want unnecessary mass.
Possibly, we'll use light sails at our destination like a parachute. Or maybe we'll drop small colonies en route like Johnny Peopleseed.
Ruh-roh...
Ya know...I can't for the life of me think if there's a proper name for a plant room aboard a spaceship / space station / Flying Castle. Seems there should be.
If we find a nice little planet with lots of trees and flowers and mountains and maybe waterfalls and pretty, rocky fjords and all...I may volunteer for Peopleseeding. ;-)
Reincarnation, like fusion, is one of the technologies still under development.
We shouldn't count on it until it is proven. (Besides, as I document in my fourth book, "Reaction!" -- there are some, um, "hazards" to the process.)
I'm putting my chips on reliable technologies like Nuclear Fission, rotational artificial gravity, growing foods in near Earth-like conditions, and good solid metal to protect us.
Here's a thought--what if we clone the Flying Castle as we go along, like cells dividing and multiplying, and send each one off to a different galaxy?
I think I was just lucky that time.
We have meadows and wheat fields and cornfields and ... well, enough to last. We also have fish-farming, synthetic rice paddies and hydroponics. Small vegetable gardens and livestock pens.
We have orchards and vineyards, even some natural vegetation in the form of a forest in the Flying Castle habitat.
We dream big.
P.S, All of these facilities are connected via a tubular elevator system with spherical elevator cars. This may sound silly, but when you move from Habitat A to Habitat B, your sense of down rotates a hundred and twenty degrees. Spherical is good.
Maybe you could install curtains in the greenhouse.
Galaxy?
We do well to move within our own system. Even getting to another star is problematic.
You invent Warp technology, and we'll talk about it. (We have research labs ...)
I would never interfere with plants and insects having sex. Or with anyone who wants to watch.
Urp...
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