Build them as connectable hexagons. Learn from the insects, they've had a half billion years to figure out what shit works and what shit don't.
The hexagon is only stronger than a circle if you're gridding it.
EDIT (stronger for the TOTAL material used)
Very interesting to read, but sounds so astronomically expensive and reliant on zero mistakes in every single aspect of manufacturing every single thing going into the pods, that no one will sustain paying for this shit beyond angel investors.
you should read michael chrichton's book sphere. it talks about some of the tom & jerry tier physics and biology disasters that can happen in a deep sea habitat
Many people said the same things about the ISS, I'm sure.
Sure, but space habitats are far far more useful than underwater ones
There is definitively no shortage of challenges in orbit
Space is hard to get to, no gravity, and there's radiation.
Underwater has high pressure, corrosion, and no natural lighting.
When you get an air leak in space, you find the hole and patch it. When you get a leak underwater, you don't have to worry about it at all because it takes care of things in microseconds.
Lol, that show is among the stupidest things I've ever loved.
It's not a toy. It makes real cupcakes... with a 40 watt bulb... and there's icing packets. But the secret ingredient is love... Damn it.
I want to be an Adrienne Barbeaubot!
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Only if they inaugurate Vanguard on the day of the Feast of Alvis.
If anything goes slightly wrong I die instantly you say? I need to sign up NOW
Yeah, wouldn't mind that for the next 4 years or so, possibly longer.
The trouble with all these schemes is that it's totally contrary to poweful real world trends. The surface of the Earth has an overwhelming abundance of rural land that is incredibly hospitable to life. And these places are depopulating because people prefer living in cities. How are you gonna get people to move to the bottom of the sea, or Mars, if they don't even want to move to West Virginia?
The trouble with these commenters is that they don't read the articles. This one isn't at all about getting people to move underwater, it's very specifically about habitats for ocean researchers to live in, rather than spending enormous amounts of time decompressing after relatively short dives.
What happens in the abyss stays in the abyss.
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