/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12164087
>>12164081
I'm talking about the reflections off the modules you bakas

>You can even give them a hard metal outer shell after they've been inflated
I guess that's one way to preserve it

>>6080570
I do like the bubble concept, but I don't think it can be made indefinitely statically stable. You get one CME and the dynamic stresses will tear the thing into cosmic confetti. But Like in everything else, there's a compromise (the name of which escapes me at the moment) where you build only a few (3-100) LARGE orbiting/floating collectors. These would mostly consist of the solar-sail like materials as in the bubble, but the non-joined structure prevents stress buildup.

>>6080562
Because space colonies are what come way before a dyson sphere. Talking about space colonies ITT would be akin to starting a thread about grand architecture and then discussing the best ways to join table legs to a frame.

We can talk about space colonies too, but preferably in their own thread.