Part 3 A Paradise in Space

Opening at the top of the ball allows the entry of space vehicles to land and refuel or unload supplies / cargoe or receive electricity.

Space travellers wearing contact magnetic boots disembark and leave the space hanger via one of several pressure sealed airlocks and move to their designated level via a magnetic lift. Once inside they remove their suits and join the many others that currently reside on the station.

The park located along the equator is the most pleasurable place to stay and has abundant wildlife tree's, animals and a lake. It receives all of the sunlight radiated through the solar array and refelected through each of the translucent carbon fibre polymer windows that run tangentially across the Balls surface. The properties of later Balls allowed light filtered to only 85% of earhlight to pass throughout the whole station equilivent to a bright but overcast day. The light is significantly brighter and must be filtered of harmful radiation first and yet when it hits and illuminates the opace semi translucent hul it conveys light throughout.

The views are stunning and the best place is right at the equator. Other stunning views include the low-g viewing locations adjacent the Space Port and the more quiet aquas filled regions of the lower polar region in which resides most of the marine life onboard aswell as the microwave projector.

After the shell is complete a level 1 atmos is applied to the outer shell. This minimizes the pressure exerted on the outer shell whilst retaining its structure and function to keep the vessel pressurised at that layer. A second layer built directly onto the buckyball frame work supports the remaining pressure of the interior once filled with earth level atmos.


The end result is a structure that can hold a variety of life sustaining ecosystems including a marine system, a forest system and ofcourse a hybrid hydropnics system for growing and recycling food aswell as an insectarium to provide a plentiful supply of nutrients to all onboard. Each ecosystem will inhabitat parts of the vessel with a lower gravity that suits the tolerances for the species it will sustain.

For example the Marine system will exist at the polar regions where there is close to zero G as fish and other marine species will quickly adapt to the absense of gravity.

Insects on the other hand do not far aswell in Micro-G and will however prosper in a fraction of earth gravity through selective breeding and adaption a process that takes less time then you'd think.

Other land dwelling mammals tree's and plants that have yet to be hybridized for low G environments will prosper in the forest system which will have earth's gravity whilst sustaining a variety of animal and plant life it will also provide important sensory sustanance to those onboard no matter on which level theyre sleeping quarters reside.

Its a hotel a power station a world unto itself and above all an institution of life.

As the giant spinning buck ball rotates and positions itself with its axis facing the sun it receives continous daylight moderated and filtered through the external electrically controlled materials that let varying amounts of light through this can be varied and controlled to give the appearance of day's and nights whilst staying onboard. The solar collectors distribute the power throughout the ship powering its many onboard systems and sending the remaining power back to earth via the microwave transmitter to a fixed collector on the earths surface or to robot energy carrying rockets that return their energy back to earth or to be used to power deep space flight.

Imagine a sculpted valley running along the central equator with plants animals and grass lands a fully self contained world the size of two small villages.