These great hollow globes of artificial super-metals, and artificial transparent adamant, ranged in size from the earliest and smallest structures, which were no bigger than a very small asteroid, to spheres considerably larger than the Earth. (Olaf Stapledon, STAR MAKER)
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Tank Farm
Ah, the good old days at the dawn of the shuttle program. When people were thinking about, well...recycling! Space stations from external fuel tanks, why not? Even folks like Larry Niven (with Steven Barnes) and David Brin were thinking about that and writing stories using these things. What Might Have Been.
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