2006-12-18 07:54:32 · 7 answers · asked by bhaskar 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I think a space habitat would need to be constructed on the moon first because construction in the moons low gravity would be easier than building it on earth and launching it into into space and putting it together in space, if a astronaut dropped a tool in space it would just float away unless it was tethered to him and having a ton of tools strapped to you would be an inconvenience to say the least, now if it was constructed on the moon and someone dropped a tool it would just fall to the surface until it was picked up again. The shape of the perfect space settlement in my mind would be shaped like a truncated icosahedron, just like the shape of a buckyball. The settlement could be very big possibly with thousands of people and still keep it's structural integrity even with artificial gravity in place, however this can't be done for a long time maybe 40 or 65 years away
2006-12-18 12:15:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cam:
That is a good question, being that NASA is looking for a few
good ... designers. Being that everyone from President
Kennedy in 1960 to Carl Sagan in the early 1990s have been
working on a way to design the best Habitat, no-one person
has a real solution to this question. I feel that a combination
of above and below ground structures would be the best for
a habitat. Drilling into unknown soil though is the real
problem. Some of the material on a moon or asteroid is
8 times denser than granite, and with not knowing how that
will react if we use a high-intensity laser on it ... well ... it
could mean disaster. We still have a few bugs to work
out ... just a few.
2006-12-19 01:22:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most serious hazards to health in space are microgravity and radiation. Microgravity is easy to deal with. You build a hollow cylinder, set it to rotate about its axis and live on the inside curved surface. Centrifugal force provides a substitute for gravity. The reason why radiation is so difficult to deal with is that shielding is heavy, and it costs thousands of dollars to lift a kg of payload into space. But by the time we've got the technology to build hollow cylindrical space habitats, we'll be able to mine the asteroid belt and clad them with enough rock to provide a radiation shield.
2006-12-18 16:24:03 · answer #3 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best design does not exist, because of the infinitely many un-thought-of variations, at least one will always be better than anything we have thought of.
2006-12-18 15:58:45 · answer #4 · answered by computerguy103 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth is the very best that we could imagined.
2006-12-18 17:37:44 · answer #5 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dodge dakota!
2006-12-18 17:23:31 · answer #6 · answered by Sterling D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_nasa_settlement_060306.html
2006-12-18 15:58:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋