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There are a LOT of values to the reseach being done on the ISS. Hope they do NOT de-orbit it in 2024, like they keep saying. But we need to go farther out!

 

Ad LEO! Ad Luna! Ad Ares! Ad Astra! (To Low Earth Orbit! To the Moon! To Mars! To the stars!)

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So what ever happened to the concept of the "wagon-wheel" shaped space station... which was to spin and create "centrifugal gravity?" :huh:

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There are a LOT of values to the reseach being done on the ISS. Hope they do NOT de-orbit it in 2024, like they keep saying. But we need to go farther out!

 

Ad LEO! Ad Luna! Ad Ares! Ad Astra! (To Low Earth Orbit! To the Moon! To Mars! To the stars!)

 

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So what ever happened to the concept of the "wagon-wheel" shaped space station... which was to spin and create "centrifugal gravity?" :huh:

 

The squirrels in the middle got dizzy and had to quit!

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So what ever happened to the concept of the "wagon-wheel" shaped space station... which was to spin and create "centrifugal gravity?" :huh:

A. Really espensive

B. I think they have decided gravity is overrated

;)

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So what ever happened to the concept of the "wagon-wheel" shaped space station... which was to spin and create "centrifugal gravity?" :huh:

 

Haven't you heard? Some newly graduated physicist hired by NASA took a look at the design and came to the conclusion that the Coriolis effect of the rotation would cause a "wagon wheel" space station to either screw itself down into the atmosphere and crash or screw itself upward until lost in outer space. When this was reported to the Business Majors in charge of NASA the program was promptly cancelled. :P

 

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So what ever happened to the concept of the "wagon-wheel" shaped space station... which was to spin and create "centrifugal gravity?" :huh:

 

Microchips and fiber optic cables.

 

The main reasons for putting people in orbit long term back then were to observe the Earth, and provide communications relay services. But it's cheaper and safer to run fiber optic cables across the oceans, and Earth monitoring can be done by remotely controlled satellites with lots of sensors and data storage. So there's not much need for a human-friendly outpost in orbit any more.

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I always like the idea of the space elevator. They could run equipment and people up a cable into space for cheap.

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Long time in orbit, I'm guessing wagon wheels.

Elevator I think will not work to LEO??

 

I've always been interested in warm temp superconductors, but we don't have em yet.

 

Rockets are dangerous and messy.

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Rockets are dangerous and messy.

Only at the ass end. :)

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