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Posted by Perplexed in Peoria on February 25, 2006, 7:06 pm
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> I just finished reading This New Ocean that covers the space age. I
> really wasn't looking forward to the Skylab part but after I read it and
> then googled up the pictures of Skylab I was happily surprised. That Skylab
> looked pretty cool. It looked like a real lab. It looked big, unlike the
> current space station that looks like stupid trash cans hooked together.
> Anyway, everybody has seen old pictures from the past (like the 1950's)
> with scientists images of what a space station may look like in the future.
> It's the classic space station look - a big wheel spinning slowly around
> (creating gravity), something like the space station in 2001 A Space
> Odyssey.
> My question: are those classic looking space stations possible? Would it
> be possible with today's technology to build one of these stations that
> actually spins around creating gravity? Would spinning a big pin wheel
> shaped space station work?
> What's are the negatives to such a station besides cost?
Well, you also have to ask, what are the positives? If you don't have
micro-G and you don't have an asteroid, moon, or planet handy with
material resources to be exploited, just why do you want to have people
in your station? To repair the life support systems in case of
emergency?
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> really wasn't looking forward to the Skylab part but after I read it and
> then googled up the pictures of Skylab I was happily surprised. That Skylab
> looked pretty cool. It looked like a real lab. It looked big, unlike the
> current space station that looks like stupid trash cans hooked together.
> Anyway, everybody has seen old pictures from the past (like the 1950's)
> with scientists images of what a space station may look like in the future.
> It's the classic space station look - a big wheel spinning slowly around
> (creating gravity), something like the space station in 2001 A Space
> Odyssey.
> My question: are those classic looking space stations possible? Would it
> be possible with today's technology to build one of these stations that
> actually spins around creating gravity? Would spinning a big pin wheel
> shaped space station work?
> What's are the negatives to such a station besides cost?