Another You Might Be a Space Nerd Moment
You might be a space nerd if out of curiousity you get out a tape measure to try and calculate your appartment's volume in cubic meters, so you can get a feel for how big it is relative to a Bigelow module...
PS the answer was ~140.
PS the answer was ~140.
posted by Jon Goff at 11:02 PM
6 Comments:
~75 (tiny flat) ^_^
225 cubic meters, but three people.. :)
Or 90 square meters and 2.5 meter room height.
In zero g, space should feel a lot bigger since you can for example sleep vertically and move around gliding head first.
And having lived on a ship, you can get used to a lot too in a few weeks.
Guilty.
I did that too a few weeks ago. 125 m^3. And I would be willing to live in much less if I could live in space.
My small room has about 25m^3, and it would be more than enough as private space.
But I think that squeezing as many people and as much equipment as possible into a tiny space might not even be desirable.
Stuff like radiating waste heat gets significantly easier if the equipment is not too tightly packed. Also in a big habitat the time you have to e.g. fix a CO2 scrubber before the CO2 concentration becomes a problem would be much higher.
I'm not a "neatness freak" but not cramming stuff together would hopefully also make for easier and more thorough (perhaps automated?) cleaning. Afaik Mir was downright foul in this regard ^_^
What if you don't need a tape measure :) I can approximate it to be (195 m^2 * 3 m high) ~= 595 m^3
Some of you are obviously spending too much on rocket stuff and not enough on your habitats... ;-)
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