{"id":23,"date":"2019-02-21T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2019-02-21T02:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T02:30:04","slug":"research-material-hollowed-out-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/science-fiction\/research-material-hollowed-out-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Material: Hollowed out asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You&#8217;re creating something (novel, webcomic, animatic, mood board) science fictional. And you decide that you need something like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"774\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hardlight_pencils009-1024x774.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hardlight_pencils009-1024x774.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hardlight_pencils009-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hardlight_pencils009-768x580.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hardlight_pencils009-1200x907.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Art by Jesse Reklaw for a graphic novel that I wrote, Hard Light. This is the hollowed out asteroid of Pokhara, where a lot of the novel takes place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was writing this graphic novel (the art was finished because I ran out of money), I did not know about this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1812.10436?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Stability of a rotating asteroid housing a space station (opens in a new tab)\">Stability of a rotating asteroid housing a space station<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>In this study we present how to estimate the necessary spin rate assuming a cylindrical space station inside a mined asteroid<br> and discuss the implications arising from substantial material stress given the required rotation rate. <\/p><cite>Stability of a rotating asteroid housing a space station<br> T. I. Maindl , R. Miksch and B. Loibnegger<br> Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So, now you have an advantage over me. You can create a hollowed out asteroid city and have the math to back it up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/science-fiction\/research-material-hollowed-out-asteroid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Research Material: Hollowed out asteroid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}