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A bootstrap platform for sea steader ? That's a great idea - it would be put to a good use, and be an interesting experiment in creating a community on an arti
by guylhem 14y ago
A bootstrap platform for sea steader ?
That's a great idea - it would be put to a good use, and be an interesting experiment in creating a community on an artifical island!
Hell, anything would be better than just destroying it.
- masklinn 14y agoYou do realize there's a 50 years old nuclear plant inside the Enterprise right?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoThis is true of course, but the power plant is very very simple. Its a fission powered tea kettle. All the 'complicated' bits, the steam turbines the engines, operate outside the tea-kettle part and have been maintained and kept up to date. I don't know if they have done any long term radiological studies on metal fatigue but there aren't a lot of moving parts to go wrong. No reason to think you couldn't continue to use it for another 100 years. And since it goes about 20 years on a single fill up, you'd probably get 50 years out of a refueling if it basically stayed in one place.