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I have often wondered if you could chop a nickle-iron asteroid into 1 meter cubes whether you could construct a space-station Minecraft style. I would probably
by Lerc 3y ago
I have often wondered if you could chop a nickle-iron asteroid into 1 meter cubes whether you could construct a space-station Minecraft style. I would probably have some tapered+oxidized surfaces so you could align things nicely before the fusing happens, but it sounds like a fun way to make huge structures.
Chopping up the asteroid left as an exercise for the reader.
- jamiek88 3y agoWell if you look at the accuracy and precision cutting and tessellation of some of the stone work the ancients did, starting with the Sumerians in the very first cities it would be fitting if our first cities in space were made by similar techniques but this time, with lasers!
- psd1 3y agoEasy! Start by chopping the asteroid into tessellating hendecahedra, then use one of the faces of each solid as a reference surface to project a cube of known size.
- lstodd 3y agoNonono, no such abomination please. Let's do it with rhombododecahedra.