From: mikecombs@nospam.com_chg_nospam_2_ti.retro.com   
      
   "Ash Wyllie"  wrote in message   
   news:1074.620T1714T12703402@lr.net...   
   > Hop David opined   
   >   
   > >Wouldn't the hollow sphere collapse as pressure increases?   
   >   
   > Not if it is very round.   
      
   I'm thinking that when the sphere begins slamming into the atmosphere, it's   
   going to depart from round.   
      
   But, as I've noted elsewhere in the thread, one could preserve the essential   
   element of this scenario by foaming the steel.   
      
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   Mike Combs   
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   We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the   
   best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the   
   Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely.   
   Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is   
   "somewhere else entirely."   
      
      Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier"   
      
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