A hard shell that unfolds like oragami will fit in a single Starship payload but expand to over 250k cubic meters of space (which seems impossible, that’s like 10 olympic pools) and offers practical solutions for many of the common engineering challenges with building long-term human habitations in orbit.
In many ways, the engineering of a space habitat is a lot easier than a deep-sea submersible…
A space station only needs to keep 1 atmosphere of pressure in, whereas a submarine has to keep hundreds of atmospheres of pressure out.
don’t kill my dreams like that.
Well, don’t lose hope. Rockets still explode in giant fireballs more often than any other form of transportation.
Thanks man., I needed that.
Are you including Formula 1 and similar?
Hmm… Yeah that probably applies to formula 1 as well. We’d have to do the math to know for sure, but a quick Google search says that about 3% of astronauts/cosmonauts have died during a mission. I’d be surprised if the fatality rate for race car drivers is higher than that.
I was under the impression just a cloth type of thing could be vaguely in the vicinity and the airflow would send it to the hole. Its like strong enough to drag things over but not so strong it will tend to rip up the surface or something.