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How would a lunar railway handle thermal expansion? We’re back to the same problem that the nighttime lunar surface is mighty cold, and I’d expect big gaps to f
by labster 4y ago
How would a lunar railway handle thermal expansion? We’re back to the same problem that the nighttime lunar surface is mighty cold, and I’d expect big gaps to form
- burnished 4y agoI have no idea how plausibly, but the book 2312 has a city on one of the hot inner planets that gets squeezed along a rail using thermal expansion. Even if that doesnt work, it seems like the sort of thing you could engineer around, just a more extreme version of the engineering we already do to handle thermal expansion.