Timeline for Can a generation ship withstand its own oxygen and daily wear for many thousands of years?
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| May 20, 2019 at 13:51 | comment | added | bob0the0mighty | I'm not sure this is a problem is you leave 100s or 1000s of meters of nickel-iron between a main habitation chamber and space. The vast majority of this ship is natural nickel-iron asteroid vs a completely manufactured vessel. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 6:11 | comment | added | Matt Skeptic | The ship can't be very big as it must hold a minimal atmospheric pressure in the vacuum of space (like many aircraft do in our atmosphere) as the hull gets larger it will need to be stronger and heavier. There will have to be many small modules. This means that re-manufacturing ie. smelting titanium and casting new parts is going to be very challenging. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 15:18 | history | edited | bob0the0mighty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2019 at 15:11 | history | answered | bob0the0mighty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |