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From politics into spacecraft design for a moment...
Because various people have been pointing things out to me via Facebook that are catching my attention tonight.
The Geometry of Starship Design - Star Trek from robotjackelope.com. Focusing mainly on the TOS Enterprise, but a page is set aside for the Klingon D-7 as well. I was never the best geometry student in high school. I barely recall ever hearing about the "golden ratio" concept, and we never got into the Fibonacci Sequence material at all. But this is interesting. Thanks to the Star Trek Art Group on Facebook for this!
(For those of you interested in Star Wars, there's another page from the same blog.)
From the Icarus Interstellar Blog, pointed out to me by David Brin, we have some thoughts on starship design in a different direction, based on assumptions that artificial gravity will have to be attained by more realistic means. Mostly, they focus on the probability that long-haul generation ships really are going to have to be mobile towns on the scale of Melville to Moose Jaw in terms of population in order to work.
Not a mathematician or an engineer, so I'll be interested in seeing opinions from the rest of the room re: these two articles.
The Geometry of Starship Design - Star Trek from robotjackelope.com. Focusing mainly on the TOS Enterprise, but a page is set aside for the Klingon D-7 as well. I was never the best geometry student in high school. I barely recall ever hearing about the "golden ratio" concept, and we never got into the Fibonacci Sequence material at all. But this is interesting. Thanks to the Star Trek Art Group on Facebook for this!
(For those of you interested in Star Wars, there's another page from the same blog.)
From the Icarus Interstellar Blog, pointed out to me by David Brin, we have some thoughts on starship design in a different direction, based on assumptions that artificial gravity will have to be attained by more realistic means. Mostly, they focus on the probability that long-haul generation ships really are going to have to be mobile towns on the scale of Melville to Moose Jaw in terms of population in order to work.
Not a mathematician or an engineer, so I'll be interested in seeing opinions from the rest of the room re: these two articles.