Comments on: Rockets, Blimps, and Teeth https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/ I can scarcely move or draw my breath // Let me, let me freeze again to death Wed, 06 Jan 2016 03:58:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: starbadger https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-17531 starbadger Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:42:26 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=11946#comment-17531 Ia just don’t understand why more people don’t share your optimism about SPACE. Didn’t millions of people watch Star Trek. Right now on the Boat I’m watching DS9 Season Six.

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By: Shannon https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-17527 Shannon Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:14:08 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=11946#comment-17527 I’m not convinced that a shell is the way to go just because appropriate compressive strength combined with a stable frame would be hard to do… I think a tensigrity structure of some sort, using tensile strength (that is, suspending a vacuum bubble inside a frame of some sort) might be more do-able.

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By: starbadger https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-17526 starbadger Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:57:17 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=11946#comment-17526 The fact

retain an atmosphere

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By: starbadger https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-17525 starbadger Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:55:43 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=11946#comment-17525 Yes Shannon. But given the right “shell” material they wouldn’t collapse. They fact you could make them is “proof of concept”.

Then there are the five

Lagrangian Points

The opportunity awaits!

I like the idea of using an asteroid as a spaceship or a planet – why not Venus – It could remain an atmosphere while travelling near light speed.

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By: Shannon https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-17501 Shannon Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:54:12 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=11946#comment-17501 Starbadger/Richard – That reminds me, I have created silicone bubbles in my vacuum chamber that have a near vacuum on the inside, just a hair more pressure than the almost total vacuum around them in the chamber. Of course they collapse the instant I return the vacuum chamber to ambient pressures.

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By: Shannon https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-17500 Shannon Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:53:02 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=11946#comment-17500 I did see it, yeah… But unfortunately pandering to space enthusiasts is something EVERY politician has done. Didn’t Bush promise us a Mars program and give us a couple wars instead?

I do believe that Newt is a genuine space geek, but I have trouble believing that any candidate is any more likely than another to properly fund the space program… Sadly…

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By: Paul https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-17499 Paul Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:48:48 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=11946#comment-17499 Don’t know if you’ve seen this yet, (not sure how much you follow the US republican primaries) but I thought it might interest you: https://www.npr.org/2012/01/26/145896268/foreign-policy-fly-me-to-the-moon

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By: starbadger https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-17498 starbadger Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:07:14 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=11946#comment-17498 Yes. It will happen. My guess is that the vacuum will be contained in small spheres the size of tennis balls. Maybe larger maybe smaller. Easy to do a thought experiment as to how easy to manufacture – on the moon. One more reason to get back to the moon and the advantage of being there being the economy of manufacturing things in a near-vacuum. Yes.

Note to Elizabeth. You are such an idiot. But then so was Eva Braun. I love you doodles.

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By: Elizabeth https://zentastic.me/blog/2012/01/24/rockets-blimps-and-teeth/comment-page-1/#comment-17487 Elizabeth Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:30:44 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?p=11946#comment-17487 lol sorry but I giggled at the end.
Christopher (oldest of the 3) is all about this, my eyes glaze. I’m REALLY enjoying terra firma.

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