Re: [sfconsim-l] Re: Building materials on colonies
Jason wrote:
> Hmmm I wonder how to handle vitamin c. It doesnt take to Long term storage
> very well. If I remember it tends to break down fairly easily in oxygen.
> Multi-vitamins will lose their vitamin C before anything else.
Well, it's not really that hard to store it in a low oxygen environment,
plus you can make just about anything break down slower by keeping it cold.
One concept I've been tossing around is that when we found our first space colonies, the traditional building materials that we're used to won't be available...
... Bamboo is an incredibly useful plant. You can eat the shoots, it grows like a weed, and it has flexible strength. There was a chapter in Martin Cadin's SF...
Why not just build with Stone? Surely if you are colonizing other planets you have some method for quarrying rock. You may not be able to use concrete or...
... One thinks of the ancients, like the Inca and Egyptians, who built amazing structures simply by forming the stone blocks so that fit the slot they are put...
Pond scum...pond scum...seems like I read some game-related fiction about pond scum recently... F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square...
... This sounds interesting but wrong. A foamed structure can help prevent buckling, which is good for compression structures. But why do you care about...
... Depending on weapon assumptions, foamed materials may be useful as armor, however. Or possible a foamed material with high density beads interspersed...
... I could be difficult and note that you'd most likely use steel or aluminum or titanium, since the most important thing is a strong pressure hull to keep in...
If you are going for NON-human habitable, then do you have an atmosphere with close to normal air pressure?If not then yeah you need a lot of strength for...
... human habitable natural biosphere that's not Earth. ... Quite possibly weird, but if so, I'm not sure your very likely to have self sustaining space...
... since the most important thing is a strong pressure hull to keep in breathable air and keep out all of the nasty stuff in the typical environment. ... ...
<<<< If there is one trade item any starship could sell when it visited an off world colony, it would be their sewage. Chockfull of all sorts of biological...
... In John Maddox Robert's SPACE ANGEL, spacers had a tin of "trace tabs." These were a species of multivitamin mineral daily pill. You carried a three year...
Hmmm I wonder how to handle vitamin c. It doesnt take to Long term storage very well. If I remember it tends to break down fairly easily in oxygen. ...
... Well, it's not really that hard to store it in a low oxygen environment, plus you can make just about anything break down slower by keeping it cold....
... Steel, aluminum, and titanium are so much better than raw ores for building a pressurized habitat that you'd really very much want to use them. And what's...
... This depends on whether the "solid" rock is big enough, and there's the question of what to do about cracks. Tunneling through solid rock is an expensive...
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