It seems my response didn't appear, so here it is again.

Alain <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote:

> > Added more detail of the space station as a whole.
>
> Comming good.
>
> I hope that the landing platform/garage don't rotate with the rest of
> the station. Otherwise, of the 4 craft it contains, only the purple one
> won't be ejected.
> But then, if it don't rotate, the floors are useless as there is no
> effective gravity and everything will be free floating.

No, it doesn't rotate. Only the living compartment does. the ships are attached
magnetically so they don't float around and bump into stuff.


> Those transparent domes have what function? Been on the outside, they
> should rotate with the bulk of the station, what /looks/ like a floor is
> realy a ceiling. They absolutely can't be used as greenhouses.
> If the outer hull don't spin, then you can't grow plants there anyway:
> Plants need at least some gravity to properly grow and the mass of the
> station is not huge enough for that purpose. In zero G/micro-gravity,
> you can only grow unicellular algaes.

They are for agriculture, though I suppose they could be growing plumes of algae
(in which case they should really contain water or something).

> The floor of the living area seems to not reaching the end caps. Does
> that mean that the hull don't spin? I don't think that is't a good
> setup. To much risks of mechanical failure, also a source of undesirable
> heat, vibrations and noise, not to mention a waste of energy. Just the
> diferential rotation will create a LOT of noise from the relative wind,
> turbulence and edies...

I've fixed that and will be uploading a new pic shortly.

> Alain

Thanks for the review!!


Mike

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