Apr 042011
Anyone recognize this?
I’ll post more on it in a while, but I’m curious if anyone recognizes what I’m trying to reconstruct here.
No, it’s not sci-fi.
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Anyone recognize this?
I’ll post more on it in a while, but I’m curious if anyone recognizes what I’m trying to reconstruct here.
No, it’s not sci-fi.
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Probably from the Giants in the Sky, Part 2 post? There were some insane machines there, but I can’t really match up those pictures… they’re a bit small.
Nope.
It’s one of the NASA proposed space stations that it supposed to have artificial gravity.
>one of the NASA proposed space stations
Nope.
2.4 km radius curve… Some kind of space colony? O’Neill cylinder?
A really, really, really, really big Orion pusher plate?
I’m going to guess:
1) A giant spaced-based telescope, or
2) Something to gather the energy from the sun, and redistribute it to the Earth or among space-based assets. A PowerSat, of sorts.
A cross-section through the hull of an O’Neill – type space colony cylinder?
Grif
The Guy who said O’Neil is close, I think. But isn’t it a type 1 Cyprus colony and not the bigger cylinder style?
This:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/o%252527neill%20colony/julayco/800px-External_view_of_a_Bernal_sph.jpg
So far… nopes all around.
If the space shuttle and Saturn V to the right are for scale, the drawing is of something space colony size. But ignoring that it resembles a stiffing rib/anti slosh baffle inside a propellant tank, with possibly a layer of insulation outside. Possibly a tank for one of the rockets to the right.
Everything is to approximate scale.
Lets see, a bolt pattern you could launch a shuttle through ?
1) How about a propulsion system. something like the fusion
devices designed to move planetoids, not the big stuff like Neptune.
2) Very Deep space power center. very large aperture transmitter for tight beam control at very long distances.
A little small for the crazy stuff, maybe a floating island ?
-Gar.
oh the gigant H-bomb powerd Interstar Orion Ark ?
the one who use a gigant parabolic shape pusherplate…
Ok. Here’s another guess:
A cyclotron, or supercollider (particle accelerator).
And another one:
A SDI space-based weapon.
Bishop Ring?
http://www.iase.cc/openair.htm
Fresnel lens for a laser sail?
A rib from Galactus?
Dyson sphere for a tiny black hole. 🙁
You say its not SciFi, but the scale is enormous. My best guess would be some sort of construction to hold back water, such as a dam or polder. Judging by the scale I would guess maybe the long proposed Gibraltar dam, or maybe the similar one proposed for the straits of Messina.
Atlantropa? Then why are LVs next to it. Something from Dandridge cole?
the Stanford torus space colony ?
So when do we get the answer?
Telescope lens
A telescope lens?