...And Inflatable Technology Marches On...
 

It looks like an igloo.

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
http://www.primidi.com/

Did the success of that "inflatable hotel in space" guy spur this on, or was it in the works before then?

Either way, done properly, this form of habitation could be far more safe and useful than more "normal" building styles. These efforts are going on in parallel. See Robert Bigelow's (inflatable hotel in space guy) response, below. Basically, he has a different approach for inflatables on the moon. He suggests banding together several modules at L1 -- like in the space station below -- and then landing the entire structure on the moon surface. After that, you cover it with lunar regolith.

He goes into good detail on why he would do it differently than the ILC Dover approach.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archi.../22/65477.aspx

Inflatable hotel in space? I doubt they'll be hosting any international darts tournaments in a hurry http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

I have their wierd vision floating in my head, where a hole gets poked in the inflatable space station, and it flies violently around going "ppptfblftttbbltttfffff" and then shoots downward to burn up in re-entry.

Maybe we can cast Marvin the Martian as the hotel desk clerk and astronaut Bugs Bunny as the guy who pokes the hole.

Originally posted by DanS
Unless you use abnormally long and sharp darts, you could. No problem. The walls are 1.5 feet thick and darts would bounce off of them. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/sleep.gif

We many be able to hollow him out and turn his gargantuan carcass into a generation ship, though. http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif