As I’ve been designing a space-based habitat that is home to the characters in my “XK9” novels, one of the recurring questions is how will these people feed themselves? On the eve of the US Thanksgiving holiday, it seems an especially apt question. Space Farmer by Jay Wong: if we’re out there, we’ll have to eat. As you may have picked up from comments I’ve made in several of my previous “DIY Space Station” posts, I have some rather pointed…
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…