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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]I think if we go inserting half a dozen big pillars, a spiral staircase and winches in every room, it's going to eat up a lot of valuable space and also rather compromises the integrity of the engineering. I think simple flat connectors or rising linkages (like the saucer connectors on the Ent-D) would allow reasonable security without eating into room space and penetrating the walls more than you need to. From the look of them they could be stacked to a fair height without crushing the lower rooms anyway.[/QUOTE]Well obviously you take the winch down after you're done moving your equipment upstairs. It'd just be a simple block and tackle arrangement that hooks onto a couple of fixing point built into the roof, or a tripod setup on top of the module, with the skylight open. As for the pillars, they'd form the vertical load bearing members of the structure and as for the impact on the internal arrangment, they'd be a good place for the vertical light strips and they'd form alcoves into which can be inserted bunks, desk/consoles, storage units or other equipment that you don't want cluttering up the floor. (see below) [QUOTE]These could even be used to build your space station if built to the correct tolerances, as long as we have some decent hub system for interconnecting them. Portacabins In Space![/QUOTE]If memory serves, wasn't that Probert's basic idea for the orbital office complex in TMP? A series of circular section that dock around a central hub to form a modular station. Perhaps we should try incorporating the orbital office sections into the colony ship, given it's such a widely used design...or would that be too cumbersome? Either way we'd have to decide on a scale first. [QUOTE][b]Lights[/b] It needed spots so people can find their way in the dark when in the vicinity, and to light the surroundings. [b]Shutters[/b] What if there were sandstorms or a breach in the window? Security even? [b]Stairs[/b] On some planets you could fit external stairs without the need to waste space inside. [b]Foundations[/b] Self leveling legs? special platform? Concrete?[/QUOTE][b]Lights[/b]: I thought about that and my thinking was a pair of reconfigurable floods/spots that retract into each corner and can be retuned to any focal distance or spectral frequency. Since I imagine some planets are around stars that produce light that isn't the yellow we're all used to and/or had moons that reflect a different colour at night. Plus having IR lamps would be useful for night vision. [b]Shutters[/b]: I'm reasonably sure transparent aluminium is pretty strong stuff, so a breach is unlikely, though a mechanism that controls opacity would be in order for the sake of privacy or other activities that require darkness. [b]Stairs[/b]: Yeah, I figured an external stairway and or gantry would be easy enough to rig up. With a decent scaffy it can be done in minutes, doesn't have to be particularly high-tech. [b]Foundations[/b]: That's where the six telescoping pillars would come in. ;) [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Reverend/hexi-cabins.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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