I’ve been reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Mars” books – I’m about 3/4 of the way through Blue Mars at this point – and I got to wondering about a theoretical space station. The idea I had is for an agricultural station. Something wheel shaped, rotating around a central axis to produce gravity on the inside surface of the drum, and angled so that the sun provides natural light for the inside of the wheel for half of the rotation. It’s a fairly standard Sci-Fi design, but the tricky part of this particular one is that I wanted the period of rotation to be 24 hours.
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