Kilometer
sized radio telescope dishes might be useful for observing conditions of the
early Universe billions of light years away (distance = time for
practical astronomy). Unfortunately they are too expensive to build.
Therefor making cheaper multi-purpose radio telescopes that are
lighter than air and can be maneuvered as they float while tethered
close to the ground to new positions, using new lighter than air
construction techniques, is not enough to get the work done. Lighter
than air radio telescopes of vast size should be detachable and used
for emergency shelters when their dome is turned upside down.
Wouldn't
that be a fair location for emergency employment manufacturing
computer peripherals like foot-pump generators for recharging
batteries in-the-field or bicycle electric generators for recharging
computer batteries while trekking? Could better blue-tooth connected
wireless fold-up pocket sized keyboards for tablets be produced?
The
value of kilometer-sized lighter-than air emergency shelters with
nice shiny interior ceilings in some cases where they have been
adapted to being kilometer sized reflector telescopes is obvious. In
earthquake stricken areas, in typhoon or flood trashed areas where
many are homeless immediately it might be useful to have safe secure
large public interior spaces out of the elements that can be flown
into position.
It
might be worth designing new shapes and purposes for lighter than
air, rigid hull inflatable structures- it might be cheaper than
theoretical inflatable building forms used for exo-planet injection
moldings adapted to Earth.
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