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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is a Space Station Multifunctional?
modular self-assembling system could be subdivided into these nodes and then stacked together. Pleaserhedrons, are they multifunctional? Like is the idea you'd be able to, humans cannot occupy them safely and some of them and some others have some other purposes? Exactly. Right now we build space stations and once they're built, they're done. You can't really change them profoundly. But the benefit of a modular self-assembled system is you can disassemble it. You can completely reconfigure it. That's what this promise of reconfigurable space architecture might allow us to explore. If your mission changes or the number of people in space that you want to
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