11-02-2020, 01:43 PM
This article on Intra-Habitats touches on a lot of interesting things you could put inside a pace hab.
For counter-rotating levels it speaks in terms of a minimum distance of 50km between levels.
These are interesting structural things you could do with a hab - but what might people do with the environments of their habs (with or without such interior structures) to make them interesting?
Perhaps interior Spokes or Struts or similar could support complex (ranging up to improbable or surreal) waterfalls and other water features. Or complex ecosystem niches. Or perhaps might incorporate tech to generate significant temp and humidity fluctuations to produce artistic fogs?
One idea I've occasionally kicked around is a hab where the entire lowest level is an ocean with higher levels - perhaps suspended Plates - are home to land based habitation. Floating islands might also move around on the interior ocean. Or small bubblehabs could float around inside, flying above the waters.
Perhaps a hab(s) that is entirely desert (or nearly so) and has genetically engineered lifeforms that 'garden' the sands and rocks as part of their natural behaviors - creating a huge interior sand garden that the inhabitants can either appreciate from ground level or from suspended habitats of various types.
We actually have one or two worlds or systems where the environment is engineered to produce music and some habs could be set up similarly. The interior landscape could be engineered to produce constant winds that are funneled through various geographical forms or plant forms or the like to produce music or at least pleasant sounds. Maybe forests where the seeds/nuts/fruit on the trees forms natural wind chimes of various tones and pitches, depending on the plant species. The result is entire forests of music playing as the wind blows.
Maybe a forest filled hab where genetically engineered beavers chew the trees into artistic shapes rather than cutting them down?
Coming at this from another direction - the exterior of a hab could be thought of as a giant canvas or blank slate to create art on. What might people do with it?
One thought - the out layer of dirt and rock shielding could be carved or shaped into artistic patterns or frescos or similar that can only be really appreciated from a distance.
Just some thoughts,
Todd
For counter-rotating levels it speaks in terms of a minimum distance of 50km between levels.
These are interesting structural things you could do with a hab - but what might people do with the environments of their habs (with or without such interior structures) to make them interesting?
Perhaps interior Spokes or Struts or similar could support complex (ranging up to improbable or surreal) waterfalls and other water features. Or complex ecosystem niches. Or perhaps might incorporate tech to generate significant temp and humidity fluctuations to produce artistic fogs?
One idea I've occasionally kicked around is a hab where the entire lowest level is an ocean with higher levels - perhaps suspended Plates - are home to land based habitation. Floating islands might also move around on the interior ocean. Or small bubblehabs could float around inside, flying above the waters.
Perhaps a hab(s) that is entirely desert (or nearly so) and has genetically engineered lifeforms that 'garden' the sands and rocks as part of their natural behaviors - creating a huge interior sand garden that the inhabitants can either appreciate from ground level or from suspended habitats of various types.
We actually have one or two worlds or systems where the environment is engineered to produce music and some habs could be set up similarly. The interior landscape could be engineered to produce constant winds that are funneled through various geographical forms or plant forms or the like to produce music or at least pleasant sounds. Maybe forests where the seeds/nuts/fruit on the trees forms natural wind chimes of various tones and pitches, depending on the plant species. The result is entire forests of music playing as the wind blows.
Maybe a forest filled hab where genetically engineered beavers chew the trees into artistic shapes rather than cutting them down?
Coming at this from another direction - the exterior of a hab could be thought of as a giant canvas or blank slate to create art on. What might people do with it?
One thought - the out layer of dirt and rock shielding could be carved or shaped into artistic patterns or frescos or similar that can only be really appreciated from a distance.
Just some thoughts,
Todd