Timeline for How to wrap the Moon in plastic to make her a giant, supported by the atmospheric pressure, greenhouse
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| Apr 7, 2016 at 13:54 | history | edited | Peter Cordes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
water column thickness was off by a factor of 1k
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| Apr 7, 2016 at 13:47 | history | edited | Peter Cordes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
water column thickness was off
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| Apr 6, 2016 at 18:31 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @GaryWalker: if there's a decent air thickness between layers, a micrometeor can fragment and burn up before reaching the next layer. I think the main advantage is lower forces on each layer so tears won't propagate as easily. You'd need patch robots moving around between every layers, or something, for a moon-size application of this idea. In Seveneves, it was just used for a person-sized spacecraft, and doesn't receive a lot of attention. Definitely not wrt. long-term maintenance. I'd highly recommend Seveneves as a good read in general though! | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 18:25 | comment | added | Gary Walker | I thought logistics for this would be a pain in the rear, but theoretically it is possible. I even considered it myself (though I never read Steveneves). Didn't think it changes the fundamentals by much, a meteor will likely puncture all of the layers at the same time, and patching 100 or 1000 layers sounds more complicated than patching a single layer. But, is this examined in detail in the book, i.e., is it worth reading to understand it in some depth? | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 18:14 | history | answered | Peter Cordes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |