Since I started playing Transhuman Space I've always had the same problem of visualizing what a Beehive habitat looked like, or would be like to live in.
Is there anywhere I can get an image to help me visualize what a Beehive habitat looks like inside? The closest I get to visualizing it is Nova York, but that is a massive/open chamber. I think what I find most difficult about a beehive habitat is the methods of designing a large city. For example:
(1) The main tunnels: how do people avoid constantly colliding into each other? Do the entrances to 'private' residences and 'stores' have doors? Or are they simply holes along the wall? Is there public transport other than glorified escalators (motorized hand-holds)?
(2) Residences: Do people normally designate a floor as the bottom floor?
(3) Microgravity shoes: When I saw these in 2001: A Space Odyssey I thought Velcro Shoes were ridiculous. Now that I think about it, they seem like a great idea. The RPG Transhuman Space seemed to imply these weren't all that common however. Would a main belt beehive habitat be likely to make use of these at all?
Sorry this is incoherent, but my understanding of the workings of microgravity are fairly incoherent as well. All the Sci-Fi I've ever read has not prepared me for placing the characters in a microgravity City.
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Large Beehive Habitats (Extropia?)
Sat, 2010-11-27 11:00
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Large Beehive Habitats (Extropia?)
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