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| Space colony by NASA Ames research center (Picture I) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
Artificial gravity would make possible to live a long time in space, but the problem with that thing is, that the structure must be quite big, and also the rotating speed must so huge, that the structure would be broken, because of the centripetal force. But in fact, this kind of things like space colonies are still under investigation and research in the Ames research center in NASA.
Those space colonies should also produce the food and supplies for clothes by themselves, that they can be an effective way to travel in the universe. Those giant artificial worlds are planned to use to travel inside our solar system because they would be a comfortable way to travel between planets. But in that case, most of the supplies must be produced by independently, because the support vehicle would not travel from the Earth to that space station, what would orbit the Sun and travel around our solar system.
If those colonies wanted to use for interstellar travel, the size what is needed of those giant spaceships would be something like the size of hundreds of kilometers, because the food supply and the number of the personnel, who would send to that journey must be extremely large, maybe we would talk about thousands of colonialists. That would help to keep the genetic material of that crew wealthy, and of course, those colonialists would be chosen from the group of the most capable individuals, what can be found on Earth.
The traveling to those stars would take extremely long, and that means, those crew members should not have family members, who would be left to Earth. And for that, the training of that crew must begin generations before the flight. In some theories, the organization, what creates the crew for that trip would begin the mission for creating an artificial population of the people. After that, the group would be isolated from other humans, and that process would make the trip to the other stars easier. Of course, there would be two space colonies, what would be used to change genomes, and then they would create the super humans by using this kind of methodology, where the "pure lines" of genomes can be connected.
But there is the one very interesting thing in the picture, what is above the text. That thing can be the picture of the electromagnetic weapon. The ball would be targeted by radio waves and the pike of the thing would send those electromagnetic waves to target. The rims, what are around this rim would pump more energy to that stick, and then this thing would be used as the very powerful microwave weapon.
And then this weapon don't necessary need nuclear power for working perfectly. In the belt, what surrounds that metal ball would be installed the generator, what would start to rotate in very high speed. Because this thing would be in space, there is no gravity, the rotor could float inside the belt, and then the solar power electric magnets can start to rotate it. Then the electricity would be conducted to the metal ball, what starts to send the electricity to the pike, and it will start to send the radiation to the target.
Picture I
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/behold/2012/12/06/space_colony_art_70s/Bernal_Exterior.jpg.CROP.article920-large.jpg
