Middenmurk is a great fantasy tabletop RPG blog. Tom Fitzgerald is omnivorously well read and a fantastic artist as well. His world building is inspirational.
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Research Material: Hollowed out asteroid
You’re creating something (novel, webcomic, animatic, mood board) science fictional. And you decide that you need something like this.
When I was writing this graphic novel (the art was finished because I ran out of money), I did not know about this article.
Stability of a rotating asteroid housing a space station
In this study we present how to estimate the necessary spin rate assuming a cylindrical space station inside a mined asteroid
Stability of a rotating asteroid housing a space station
and discuss the implications arising from substantial material stress given the required rotation rate.
T. I. Maindl , R. Miksch and B. Loibnegger
Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
So, now you have an advantage over me. You can create a hollowed out asteroid city and have the math to back it up!
Image
Shūji Terayama. The People of the Dog-God Family. 1975.
Music I’m listening to and liking
From Bandcamp description: The Furthur Electronix label unearths four astonishingly killer vintage tracks of tribal breakbeat mutations from Tusken Raiders, a short-lived alias from Mike Paradinas that ran between 1995 and 1999.
Techno crossed over with industrial. Pretty timeless in its now-ness.
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The self-made man is the true American monster.
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (Garry Wills)
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