Quote:Maybe this could be a good compromise... Spot is (at least since its birth) constantly growing... by a constant volume per day/month/year (and not by a constant diameter).A constant volume works for me. Because as Rob notes, maintaining a constant increase in diameter means a constant geometric increase (as in by the cube) in its intake. Doomsday machine is right.
This would still fit into Spots story I think, but would not increase the amount of mass cubed by time.
@All: What do you think ?
Quote:(Tangent: Perhaps the asteroid habitats should be removed from the Spacecraft Registry altogether and added to the Places in Fenspace list if they aren't there already. Opinions, all?)Yes, but not en masse -- we need to evaluate these on a case-by-case basis.
Quote:I think it depends more on what the inhabitants want to call their station/asteroid/unreal estate than anything hard and fast. Guidelines are nice, but if there's one constant in Fenspace, it's that someone'll find some way of breaking those guidelines, at both ends of the scale.True, that. Besides, I can't see the Fen getting too nitpicky about craft classifications. They're probably general guidelines at best, and if someone wants to call his waved Subaru a space station just because it never leaves the parking orbit he put it in back in 2009, well, nothing will come of it but amused looks and some chuckles behind his back.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.