[TML] Environmental domes

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 5 Sep 2007 at 0:03, domhanai at juno.com wrote:

> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow) wrote:
>  
> >Oddly, there have been discussions of enclosing an entire planet in a 
> >"shell" which while it requires tech we don't have is actually 
> >*easier* as far as stresses go, because all of the "dome" is at the 
> >same altitude.
> 
> Are you refering to a "Dyson sphere" type of situation?

Nope. That would be a shell enclosing a *star* at a distance 
equivalent to the habitable zone orbit for a planet. Way beyond any 
Imperial tech level. And not remotely what Dyson was talking about 
for that matter.

No, this is just "enclosing" a planet. 

One such suggestion was for Saturn or some other gas giant with a 
reasonable gravity at an altitude where the atmospheric pressure is 
near normal. The proposal allowed it to be built as large floating 
"cities" that could eventually be joined to form a shell.



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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com