This is my current desktop theme:
I wish I knew the artist and the name of the piece shown above. For some reason, this particular piece has captured my attention, and my imagination. I have spent some amount of time estimating various physical properties of the space ring habitat represented in the drawing.
The Fermi problem is as follows:
- Estimate from the picture the diameter of the ring, and the diameter of the tube the habitat is constructed from.
- What is the angular velocity needed to maintain a 1 gee environment?
- What is the volume of air in the habitat?
- Estimate the population.
- Estimate the mass of the habitat.
- Estimate the reaction mass needed to "spin up" the station to the angular velocity estimated above.
=)
Update: 4/30/2010
As in the comments below, the artist attributions are added! Thank you MJWT.
Info On The Image Shown:
ReplyDeleteArtist : Alexander Preuss
Image : The Return To Abalakin : Part 1
Offical Website : http://www.abalakin.de/
Submitted On : http://www.cgsociety.org/
Direct Link To Image Submission : http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=132&t=378795&highlight=alexander+preuss
MJWT.
PS. Bookmarked.
Thank you very much! This is good to know. =)
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