When
the Bigelow inflatable space model went up on the second try at the
Space Station it proved an important derivative point; inflatable
building forms-for example a sphere, could be used in zero gravity or
on Mars and spray coated or rolled with a permanent adhesive
substance. Building thousands of empty space spheres for various
living purposes easily and at low cost requires the invention or
application of the right materials for zero-G, Mars and the Moon.
Inventors
and governments cannot always have classified insider documents go to
currency speculators via blackberry and guarantee booming financial
success. Even when a Yoda-breaking-bad to the dark side of the force
doesn’t work to finance pioneering exploration work investors
periodically appear to fill in the gaps.
The
inflatable Bigelow inflatable module showed it works outside the
Washington D.C. beltway in the micro-gravity field. One would like to
see inflatable building forms develop with field testing on the moon,
Mars and at the Space Station. Making the special strong-lightweight
coating that can be applied at near absolute zero and yet will harden
to make a strong-permanent building shell should be something easy of
materials physicists today.
I
have read somewhere that aluminum naturally welds itself in
micro-gravity. Maybe ground ground up aluminum dust coatings have
potential as a building shell coating.
Inflatable
forms could be scalable to very large sizes. Complete sphere could
have exterior connectors to other spheres and even low-cost ion
engines to speed them around the solar system as working, transport,
freight, agriculture, research and habitation and storage modules by
the hundreds of thousands.
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