The monthly book on the Finnan site is Outpost in Space. I was plotting to post this there but since I'm moving over here, I post it here. I've always thought...
My question Charlie is how would they effectively line up with a rotating station and dock the rocket down the end of the spoke. It would seem... like an...
The Outpost did not rotate. I quote the following section: Chow scratched his chin and scowled thoughtfully. "I still don't savvy why the blamed thing is...
OK so in the end it did not spin...then entering the ends of the spokes makes sense! . I will have to reread the book... ed The Outpost did not rotate. I...
It does take some maneuvering. One must get all three axis working correctly. It is easy to line up in speed so that you are "standing still" in relation to...
Gee, I had also always assumed that it spun. When I think about i now, the configuration would not work with a spin. "Gravity" would be towards the end of the...
... You know, I had always thought it spun too. I don't know why. Especially since people stood on the ends of the spokes (as in the page 92-93 drawing in...
First of all, let me welcome all those that are reading this to the new Tom-Swift list. One of my reasons for helping to form this list is to promote Tom...
If we need more file store space for FanFic we can use the _www.tomswift.org_ (http://www.tomswift.org) url the museum has here... I used to volunteer use...
Greetings: Charlie, sounds like a plan. I really enjoyed the TS fanfic that I had read and hope that we can get some of the other stuff that was "lost" back...
... I've always made it spin in my various animations. My friend Russ the rocket scientist even helped me figure out how FAST it should spin. Frankly, it...
yes the visual just cries out for it to spin! Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/) on 12/21/06...
... One of my favorite sf books is Arthur C. Clarke's ISLANDS IN THE SKY which was first published in the Winston Science Fiction series in 1952 and reprinted...
I do see a problem for those mdules that are devoted to Earth observation. Since the spin is at the center. they would also be moving (well, yeah - I mean a...
HMMM, makes the module internal arrangements a bit different. They would have to have numerous "floors" since "down" is towards the rocket end. Not really a...
... Either way works, but I think Tom definitely needs to make up his mind BEFORE he builds the thing. If you decided to spin it LATER and all the walls...
... yes, spinning presents a problem for the hub that contains the telescopes, unless all that's in there is recording equipment and observers, and the ...
... observation. ... yeah - I ... a point. ... telescopes, ... The way Tom described the telescopes (just a latticework) would make a spin really bad. IIRC...
Greetings: Docking with a rotating space station (even though the Outpost doesn't) should be done alone the axis. Watch the "Pan Am Clipper" sequence in 2001:...
... here. ... Well I'm glad I'm not the only one who's had trouble with the design for the outpost. And, as has already been mentioned, it seemed as if Tom...
... Throwing in my two cents worth. In writing "Sandra Swift & The Lost Airship" (and, hopefully, getting back to work on "Caverns Of The Moon"), I've tried...
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