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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus: [QB] Only a few fictional spacecraft utilising [b]cables[/b] as a major structural element come to mind (note that fictional includes designs that were never, or cannot currently, be built). One is Larry Niven's idea for the Protector's ship, with the reactor compartment strung out hundreds of metres ahead of the life support module. The other is the Valkyrie, details of which are available here: [URL=http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3aj.html#valkyrie]Atomic Rocket - Valkyrie[/URL] I think there's something deeply impressive about this approach as well. After all, there's no reason why a spacecraft need be neatly contained within a single outer shell. Spacecraft don't have to tolerate the drag created by flying through an atmosphere, and under ideal conditions do not need to venture too close to a gravity well (one should use one's ground to orbit shuttle for that sort of thing), so they could just be a collection of interconnected modules in a spider web of cables, or a long piece of string with bits attached at intervals. I once doodled a rotating design with a central propulsion unit and habitation modules on cables that could be extended or retracted to vary the gravity experienced by the inhabitants. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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