12-08-2013, 08:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-08-2013, 08:37 PM by stevebowers.)
This interesting article has come via SciFi ideas
http://www.scifiideas.com/sfi/technology...oid-cores/
note that we have 'gravity balloons' of a sort in the scenario already, as that is what Ederworlds are.
But this writer (who remains anonymous btw) has considered the question in great detail, taking in shellworlds and asteroid colonies as well, on his blog
(which is here)
http://gravitationalballoon.blogspot.co.uk/
Many interesting ideas are addressed there, including how to make a version of Karl Shroeder's Virga megastructure from the resources in our solar system. I have some questions to put to this guy, which I might do in due course (including the best way to make a worldhouse roof so it doesn't rip itself apart within seconds).
His ideas about creating gravity balloons from various types of asteroid, each filled with air and rotating city-states, are intriguing, and we could certainly get some inspiration from them.
http://www.scifiideas.com/sfi/technology...oid-cores/
note that we have 'gravity balloons' of a sort in the scenario already, as that is what Ederworlds are.
But this writer (who remains anonymous btw) has considered the question in great detail, taking in shellworlds and asteroid colonies as well, on his blog
(which is here)
http://gravitationalballoon.blogspot.co.uk/
Many interesting ideas are addressed there, including how to make a version of Karl Shroeder's Virga megastructure from the resources in our solar system. I have some questions to put to this guy, which I might do in due course (including the best way to make a worldhouse roof so it doesn't rip itself apart within seconds).
His ideas about creating gravity balloons from various types of asteroid, each filled with air and rotating city-states, are intriguing, and we could certainly get some inspiration from them.