Re: [GZG] Space habitats and scale.

My son is interested in space habitats, and we'd love to see your
models.

andy

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>Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:20:55 +1000
>From: Robert N Bryett <rbryett@gmail.com>  
>Subject: [GZG] Space habitats and scale.  
>To: GZG List <gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu>
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>My young admirals have been talking about including space habitats in	
>FT games, and being the lads they are, this has led to discussions  
>about building suitable models. More power to them, but it brings up  
>the question of scale and suitable materials.
>
>After all, at the 1:2400 GZG ship-mini scale, an Island-3 style  
>O'Neil Cylinder would be roughly 2.5m in diameter, and some 8m long!  
>Clearly impractical (though it does make you think...). An Island-1  
>type Bernal Sphere would be much more reasonable, at around 200mm  
>diameter. A Stanford Torus would be stretching it at roughly 750mm  
>diameter.
>
>We've made do with painting up 3l PET grapefruit-juice bottles with  
>suitable bits and pieces stuck on, but they do look a bit small next  
>to our ship minis. Has anyone on the list done any modelling of this  
>sort of thing?
>
>Best regards, Robert Bryett
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