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A thread to post pics of space stations, be they ST, SW, or any other sci-fi.

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I like the first one.

Island 3 colonies r0xor2!!

I like Iggy's first one.

Here's a few Island-3 designs from the now-defunct Gundam Project.



I think that if we ever start a serious colonization of the solar system, this is the design we'll use.

Considering it's a real life design proposed by Gerald O'Neil, I'd say it's likely.

Damn Vietman War...

I'm doing a presentation/paper on Island 3 colonies, BTW.

The Island 3 is a good design except it lacks one major thing: A modern power source. Sure, theres always nuclear fission or fusion, but both are difficult to do especially in space. Fission has the nasty problem of waste and radioactive material, fusion has the problem of not being possible with modern technology.

The I3 would best be powered by a large solar farm, possibly using aluminium coated mylar reflectors to gather more light then the photovoltaics could on their own, but cooling the solar cells might post a problem. MAYBE.

Around earth orbit, 20 km^2 of collector would provide 340 megawatts (at 170 watt output per square meter of solar panel). This collector would have a radius of 2.5km if it were circular and 4.5 km sides if it were a square.

The size of an I3 is far more then that, methinks, so a collector could easilly be built in excess of 10km in radius providing some 50 gigawatts. Still larger and the station would provide more power.

But remember the inverse square law. If we built the thing around say, mercury (which is ideal for building and launching solar sails), the power output would be 9 times as much because mercury is 1/3 the distance ([1/3^2]^-1 = 9). If we built the thing around mars, it would provide just over 2/5th the power it would around earth. At the asteroid belt and uranus (two logical steps in space exploration due to mineral and helium 3 wealth) it would provide 1/8th and 1/370th the power. However, if weve gotten to Uranus and are brining back and using helium 3 in fusion plants, solar power might not be need anymore except when little-maintainance conditions are required.

Why do I look at that think and think...


In the second pass after the strifing runs are completeded

I dont think well ever see colonies that have internal spaces like the I3 or babylon stations. Infact, im sure we'll never see it. it simply wastes too much space and would be much more difficult to produce then a solid construction. Conditions within a solid station would be more controllable then they would be in an I3.

Besides, the I3 has those huge slits in the side for light to enter but the solar powerplant the station would run on would provide enough power for the station. More then enough. You figure that each room would have maybe 5 50 watt fluorescent bulbs, thats 250 watts for lighting per room. add in computers at 400 watts each, and other stuff, you get maybe 1500-2500 watts requires per room, not including life support. A 50GW sunlight collector would provide power for an astounding 20 million rooms. Well more then even Babylon 5 has (with something like 250 thousand inhabitants).

Does anybody have pics of the Star Fortress from MoO 2?

That was cool.

What's MoO 2?

IG-88E wrote:What's MoO 2?

Master of Orion 2. A strategy game. That is good.

And why do you have a pic of Huggy Bear as your avatar?

Heard of it, but never played it.

Because I like him!

The very first one all the way at the top has just become my favorite. It looks so sleak and.... and.... trek like?

Woah, dude, Kuja; I'm glad you like the art gallery on my site, but dude could you post links to those images instead of direct IMG yanks? I wouldnt mind 1 or 2, but you're ganking a bit too much of my bandwidth.

Marc Xavier wrote:Woah, dude, Kuja; I'm glad you like the art gallery on my site, but dude could you post links to those images instead of direct IMG yanks? I wouldnt mind 1 or 2, but you're ganking a bit too much of my bandwidth.

Wow. You resurrected an ages-dead thread to ask Kuja to change his direct links to URLs, thus adding to bandwidth consumption as people open this thread and click on the links

Stellvia, from Stellvia of the Universe:





Wait, is this thread supposed to be dead?

Hmm.. I didnt realize how old this was. For some reason pic hits were showing up on my referrer list. Probably someone lurking through the thread.

In any case, thanks.