[ExI] Space Colony Design (Was: Greener Urban Environment)

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:44 AM, SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have serious misgivings about created a completely linked structure
> that is counter rotating. I think it would be better to think of each
> section sort of the way Tokyo divides the city into wards, or London &
> NYC have Burroughs. Wouldn't it be better to fuse them together
> permanently have a limited point of transfer (true airlocks) between
> the two parts (normally open) that would snap shut automatically if
> they detected a change in air pressure? Rightly or wrongly, I see
> human habitations that stay in space as balloons almost. Humans tend
> to be quite fragile.

I was thinking basically large airlocks between the parts, yeah.  Each
100Kish people section would be a different segment, structured (and
thus probably governed) like a separate city.

> That's going to take even more noodling than previously because I was
> going to make use of underground space for some parts of life. I think
> I'll continue with the Earth city first, then this space city.

Fair enough.  :)