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libraryofbabel a day ago

I mean, sure, but this isn't "sci-fi" in the sense of a fusion ion engine or something. I don't think there are really any big engineering unknowns here, and building a rotating space station is certainly less technically complex than sending humans to Mars, and maybe even less than going back to the moon. We already know a lot about space stations from the ISS; it's just very expensive to build all the bits of a rotating station and to lift them into orbit.

lazide a day ago | parent [-]

Per the Russians anyway, the stability of the station isn’t what we expect. It would NOT work the way it naively seems like it would.