Re: New Topic/Habitats

	If you have read Larry Niven's Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers
they discuss many problems with artificial enviroments and what sort of
technology is required to solve the problems.

> I assume the hulls of these things are several meters thick,
>both for structural strength and radiation shielding, and about half of
>that is good ol' topsoil, so you can have reasonably large trees in
>these habitats, and hills (small ones), and lakes, and so on.
I would suggest sculpting your dayside to provide for the hills and lakes.
That way you don't have large areas of wasted topsoil.  The soil is a
uniform thickness throughout and the elevation is provided by sculpting the
hull.

How about chaining habitats like a necklace when population pressures get
too large?  How long could a habitat run without supervision?  What about
"abandoned" structures?  Can they be moved, or can they only be created on
the spot?  If they can be moved is there a market in habitats orbiting
mined out asteroids?  Boy you could have a lot of adventures based on these
things:-)

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