Talk:Stanford torus

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[edit] Ringworld

I think a refrence to the Novel Ringword would be apropriate. Perhapse under a Refrenced in fiction type-section? Justin 23:07, 27 December 2005 (UTC). The historical thread begins with the premice that habitats are built with known materials, the Ringworld cannot, nor can many fictional habitats. In the interest of actually getting there I think we should think about known materials and how they may be obtained and used in space. Space construction is difficult because of the frailty and unsuitablity (pardon the pun) of human constructors. I think that before space stations are anything more than an expensive experiment a method of constructing them with robots must be worked out. I think this is possible because robots function best in a simple environment and in the absence of cats. Robots are used for many assembly plants and I believe a fairly complex assembly can be programmed. I propose that, if enough people are interested, we could contribute to a prize for some kind of primative constructor. This would require that someone well known host the prize and that a number of people contribute a small sum. We may have a considerable grace period before cats make it into space, but in fact I think this is an idea thats time has come. 19:55, 29 October 2006 (UTC)gem Selective_laser_sintering might prove to be something that robots could do with relatively little processing of materials since it works with a great variety of substances.


Is Freeside really a torus? If I remember correctly, Gibson describes it as cigar-shaped in Neuromancer. That is, it's pretty much a long cylinder, circular in cross-section, rotating about its long axis. Allister MacLeod 20:55, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Last night a friend showed me where Gibson uses "The Torus" as one of the names for the archipelago--but I'm still not totally clear on what's where. Is it possible that Freeside is the center of the spindle, the pin in the middle of the top? Allister MacLeod 18:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

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