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Reading the article pulls me back to the expanse. What a great show. I recall the authors wrote an article expressing how wrong they were to predict that Ceres
by woile 2y ago
Reading the article pulls me back to the expanse. What a great show. I recall the authors wrote an article expressing how wrong they were to predict that Ceres had no water [0].
[0]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dear-dawn-james-sa-corey-pays-tribute-nasa-ceres-mission https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dear-dawn...
- moffkalast 2y agoStay away from da aqua! Nah but that's probably the smallest gripe one can have with Ceres station. Spinning up a planetoid so it has 0.3 g negative gravity and doesn't tear itself into a quintillion pieces is quite a bit more questionable.
- api 2y agoYes that whole world aspect is one of the few in the ‘verse that are wholly impractical. The only way you could do it is encase the object in a super strong tensile mesh or shell, in which case you might as well build O’Neill cylinders out of its mass instead.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoWouldn't a mesh or net be significantly less mass than a whole enclosure of metal? Plus, with a meshed asteroid, you get "free" radiation shielding due to the mass.
- api 2y agoI'm guessing the casing would have to be hefty stuff and a lot of it to hold in all that mass under ~0.3g of outward centrifugal acceleration. Of course you might be able to do some stuff internally as you hollowed out the thing too like perfuse it with high tension wires kind of like steel reinforced concrete, but it seems like a huge job at least on par with building giant space stations. Still you might be onto something with the radiation shielding.
- belter 2y agoAll Inners should stay away!
- 082349872349872 2y agoImim showxa: da owkwa beltalowda, im da owkwa inyalowda. ("they say our water is Inners' water") Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezU-F028krU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezU-F028krU
- wpasc 2y agoInyalowda, the more you share, the more your bowl will be plentiful my favorite show ever, imo best sci fi show ever. Ceres station in the books/show is a really cool idea even though it's got several reasons why it couldn't actually work
- ricksunny 2y agoThat's some good Belter creole. Here's @NASA's: https://x.com/NASA/status/1478118356309921792?t=1qK3gqdbZoJlB6mekrmsRA&s=19 https://x.com/NASA/status/1478118356309921792?t=1qK3gqdbZoJl...