Lunar Bases--Living in Space.
Date Submitted: 10/13/2004 00:13:22
Category: / Science & Technology / Physics
Length: 1 pages (345 words)
Category: / Science & Technology / Physics
Length: 1 pages (345 words)
People say that if we built homes in space that it would look exactly like it does on Earth. Is this true? It could be, with the idea of the O'Neill Island 3.
The O' Neill is a space habitat, that is an air tight bottle with a length of 30 kilometers and a radius of 3 kilometers. The outside of the bottle would be built of alternating rectangles of land-area and transparent windows. The bottle will spin …
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…to get the material for the habitat somewhere in space, because there is no way we would be able o build something like the O'Neill on Earth and send it up into space. But two things that are good about living in the O'Neill would be that the climate inside the space habitat is controlled, so there would be no rainy weather! Also, space is airless so transportation would be faster and more energy resourceful.
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