Space Station DIY: Should we go Tubular?
My quest to find a plausible, space-based home for the characters in my novels continued. I needed a space-based habitat that would feel earthlike-enough for me (and my readers) to believe that humans could be comfortable there long-term. But it also must be believable, based on what we know or can reasonably extrapolate from physics, space, engineering, and technology. So far in this DIY Space Station series we’ve considered space stations/colonies in general, Dyson structures, and Bernal spheres. The next design I considered…