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Plans? Maybe...

            I want to go more in depth with this concept. Previously, I made stuff that kind of made sense with physics but that maybe was not as practical. This might be the start of an ongoing project to make a minifigure-scale space station. 

Backstory: Sol 3.5a orbits the Sun between Earth and Mars (which is another calculation that I'm too tired to do right now but will most definitely get to). The station is a series of habitat modules spinning about a docking bay with a main generator as a counter-weight. 

Specs: For the calculations above, I wanted the minimum artificial gravity to be (0.9)g and for the maximum transverse acceleration to be g/20 when travelling at 3m/s radially (along the tether). From the calculations above, this means that the shortest tether (which is only one part of the stations length) would be around 1.3km--corresponding to about .78rpm rotation of the entire station.

So these numbers sound doable in the future I've been building. If they can build a space elevator, then surely they at least can design this monster right?

However, If you translate 1.3km into minifigure-scale, you get roughly 3,670 studs. For just the marked distance r. That is beyond insane and so far, I have no plans to design something that big, let alone a computer powerful enough to do so. Most likely what I will do is design the habitat modules and the docking bay and generator and then make a SECTION of the tether (which is not just a thick cable as people and supplies and power need to run along it) And then simply pattern-layer the cable pieces in any renderings. 
NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE DRAWING ABOVE IS NOT TO SCALE.

Thoughts? 

Should I try a forced-perspective station instead?

Taken on: February 11, 2019

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Sets appears in: • Sol 3.5a • Not-So-Far-Off Space

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