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Wow, Stephen! You sure have some great ideas. The moons of Jupiter have
always greatly appealed to me since reading Farmer in the Sky by Roberet A.
Heinlein when I was a boy (I am - uhum - slightly older than you are).
You'll love the book if you're into hard sf and Ganymede. To get back to
your project: You sure seem to be thorough. I just make some rough sketches
when I build, but everything always seems to worrk out differently when I
start building. I am still a boy in that respect! With your preperations and
yearning for practicallity in the near future I think your mission to
Ganymede will be a big success! Check out my own Galilean moons project if
you ever have time, perhaps they may give you some inspiration:
http://www.zwagerman.net/lego/glego.html
Keep us posted. Good luck and have fun building! Alexander
In lugnet.space, Stephen Pakbaz writes:
> Hello everybody. I've been reading here at Lugnet ever since the
> first Star Wars sets came out, I've also posted a few times, and even made
> my own Lego website. Although I am not a Lugnet member...yet, on March 19 I
> finally turned 18 and now consider myself to be an Official Adult Fan of
> Lego! The only problem is maintaining this status as I begin to get ready
> to go to college. I refuse to be forced through a Dark Age no matter what.
> Anyway, for the past YEAR I've been studying, researching, and
> designing for a full mission to Jupiter that can be built out of Lego. This
> is also the "first" mission to Jupiter, so there are no FTL engines or
> anything like that. The mission will include a shuttle with Boosters to get
> the parts into space where the main transit ship called the Odyssey will be
> assembled. She will be about 203 studs long. On the front of the ship will
> be a module for landing on Ganymede (third largest moon from Jupiter).
> Behind it will be a motorized ROTATING DRUM about 36 studs in diameter and
> around 16 studs in height, with a full and completely decorated interior
> with removable panels in the front to make the interior accessible, that
> will produce the equivalent of moon gravity. After that are the airlocks,
> communications, and sensor arrays along with a small space pod for repairs
> and other tasks. Behind this are two rows of four cylinders on either side
> of the ship that contain the ships food, water, supplies and spare parts.
> Connected at the bottom of this spine is a row of four cylinders capable of
> detaching from the ship and landing on the surface of Ganymede to keep the
> colonists with supplies. Behind this is a smaller flywheel that contains
> the ship’s batteries and spins in the opposite direction to compensate for
> the spinning of the drum. After that, are the vibration dampeners, for the
> engines. Behind the dampeners are the extremely large hydrogen fuel tanks
> that supply the fuel for the plasma drive. This is followed by the nuclear
> generator and the large radiator fins that protrude from each side of the
> generator. After those, are the plasma engines that propel the ship. The
> generator is shielded to protect from radiation. I am currently deciding
> where and how to connect plasma shields to protect the ship from solar
> radiation, cosmic radiation, and the radiation given off by Jupiter (plasma
> shields are a combination of electromagnetic and electrostatic fields that
> can deflect charged particles in radiation). The module is landing on
> Ganymede because it has its own magnetosphere to protect it from radiation,
> although the focus of the mission is on Jupiter’s second farthest moon,
> Europa. This moon is covered by a crust of ice that contains a sea of
> liquid water, more than the water of all earth’s oceans.
> Several unmanned modules will be sent ahead of the mission to
> prepare for the manned transit ship. A nuclear generator will be sent to
> Ganymede to generate power for the colonists. A small launch vehicle will
> also be sent there so the colonists will have a means of returning to the
> transit ship, which will remain in orbit around Ganymede for the duration of
> the colonist’s stay. Another modified nuclear generator will be sent to
> Europa. This generator will have a thermal drill that will melt and drill
> through the thick crust down to the water. The water will be separated into
> oxygen and hydrogen. A large refueling ship will also be sent to Europa
> that will take shipments of the Hydrogen into orbit around Ganymede that
> will refuel the transit ship for the trip back home, making a total of about
> five trips into orbit. All these ships are sent and set up before any
> colonists ever arrive. To get to Jupiter, each ship has a set of two
> external fuel tanks to speed the ships towards Jupiter and slow them down
> when they get there. The tanks then separate and connect to form a series
> of eight empty tanks that will be filled by the refueling ship and will hold
> most of the fuel needed to get back home before the transit ship even arrives.
> I have worked out orbits, transit times along with many other
> aspects to make the trip as real as possible. All the components and
> technology used in this mission is made with technologies that already can
> exist today. This mission is the first in the colonization in deep space.
> If we’re lucky, we are hoping there could be life on Europa. If not, it
> would still be a good place to get fuel for future missions. People will
> not be sent to Europa because it has no magnetosphere and they would not be
> protected from Jupiter’s intense radiation, unless they lived under more
> than six feet of ice, which is not feasible at this time. The mission will
> also use several humanoid androids capable of maintaining the unmanned
> colony on Europa and helping the colonists on Ganymede. Two people will
> live on the colony on Ganymede while one person remains on the transit ship
> in orbit.
> I have several notebooks full of detailed designs down to the last
> square stud, and even smaller for every part of the ships. I have also been
> buying many of the components off Bricklink. I don’t get much money and I
> am going to college soon, so the ship won’t be done for a while. I will
> still try to somehow work on it in college if I can’t get it done before
> then. I am also always overloaded with homework. However, this next week
> is spring break for me so I will try and post all my designs up for all to
> see on my website. I also hope to download and learn how to use LDraw so
> maybe I can design the ships on the computer. The descriptions above may
> not be all too clear yet and I will clarify everything better on my site if
> I ever get this stuff up on it. I also hope to design a real ship to go to
> Jupiter. My inspirations have been the great Odyssey books by Arthur C.
> Clarke, the many fans here in Lugnet.space, along with the guy who built the
> Extra Stout ship, that really long post along time ago about realistic
> future space theories and concepts, and all the other Lego vessels, which
> helped me to realize that a mission like mine could be possible to make out
> of Lego.
> For any of you who actually read this far, I am anxious to hear
> your opinions of what I am trying to do and would also like to hear any
> suggestions or comments you may have.
>
>
> -Stephen Pakbaz,
> -a.k.a.-Captain Steve Halman of the IPSV (Inter-Planetary Space Vessel) Odyssey
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