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Re: Space stations?
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Date: 
Sat, 8 Jan 2000 02:39:35 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:
> Modular designs
> tend to look very functional and mechanical. (But that can have it's own
> appeal too, can't it.)

Form follows function, baby, and something that does the thing it is
intended to do, and does it well and efficiently, is a thing of beauty,
as beauty follows form.

At least that's MY aesthetic opinion.

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  Re: Space stations?
 
(...) But think about how you'd build a _real_ space station. Wouldn't a modular design make sense? I understand where you're coming from on the ugliness point. Modular designs tend to look very functional and mechanical. (But that can have it's own (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)

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