Snow Globes and Dyson's spheres
To this text is connected the image of the Snow Globe. Some inventors have created the idea to make the artificial gravity to spacecraft by using small bubbles, which are rotating the spacecraft on the top of the long tubes. In some drawings, those bubbles are looking like church bells, but as you know those things are the only hypothesis, that is made for theoretical purposes.
When we are thinking about the extreme long spaceflights the fresh food is one of the most complicated things, because it's hard to grow vegetables in the zero-gravity conditions. So the idea is to install two greenhouses to the body of spacecraft, and they can rotate it on the top of the long tubes.
If the greenhouse would be away from the crew cabins, that denies the danger, that some mushroom would start to expand in the cabin. And the things like hummus would not be released in the capsule, where the crew would stay, and destroy computers.
In the simplest model, those bubbles or greenhouses would be quite small, and they are operated by robots, and when the vegetables are ready to eat, they would put to the tube, and the crew can use them as the food. Those greenhouses can be connected to the spacecraft with the adapter, which is equipped with bearing and the tiny greenhouses are on both sides of the structure at the top of the tubes.
When the food would be delivered to the crew that would be made by packing to capsules, and then the system, what would act as a pressure air post would deliver that food straight to the cooker. If there are two greenhouses what size would be little bot bigger than Apollo-capsule, that would guarantee, that the food production can continue, even if the greenhouse would be damaged.
This thing has given the idea to some space scientists to create the small-size "Dyson's sphere" or the greenhouse to space. In this solution, the spacecraft would equip with two small greenhouses, where the crew can grow vegetables and other kinds of food. In some ideas, the little big bigger solution would be created by using Mylar bubble, and the bottom of the bubble has installed the tank of liquid hydrogen or the bubble would be protected against the solar wind or the particles, what is coming from the sun by using electromagnetic system, what is two masts, where are magnets. The mission of those magnets is to pull the ions away from the bubbles.
In some images to those bubbles has been drawn a house. And this might be the model of the spacecraft, which would travel inside the solar system. This thing would use nuclear power and gravity sling while it travels between planets. If the craft would use also gravity sling, that would save the fuel.
The researchers could live in that craft in the conditions, what seems like home, and artificial gravity makes possible to work on the surface of the planets and moons. Because there are at least two bubbles, there is a possibility to use another bubble in as the rescue room, if the micro meteors would break the cover of the craft. These kinds of visions are at the theoretical level, and they are not officially made in purpose. ¨
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