Argheraal
19-01-2004, 05:44
Want a different kind of space station?
A different kind of vacation resort?
A different kind of space habitat for your population?
Then why no try a
DYSON MEGATREE
Genetically engineered trees.
Created to function as a biological space habitat.
(First proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson in the early Information Age.)
http://www.orionsarm.com/gallery/Orwood_Forest.jpg
A fully grown tree is a spherical structure up to a hundred kilometers across. Generally consists of 4-6 trunk structures growing out from a comet nucleus. Branches grow from the top of each trunk and intertwine and merge with each other to form a single structure. The trunks and primary branches are hollow and contain a breathable atmosphere and symbiotic ecology as well as a space adapted ecology on their exteriors. Various sub-species have been engineered to survive at a variety of distances from a star and under various wavelengths. Generally found at distances ranging from .5-4 AU around stars in the G, K and M class.
Growth of a new tree begins when a suitable comet is diverted into a close solar orbit and a seed is planted on it. Over several years the seed extends a root system into and around the comet and then begins the growth of the primary trunk systems. Depending on the material supply in the comet and the distance from the star, full growth may take up to a century. However, most trees are ready for initial habitation within 10 years of planting. Average tree lifetimes run to a millennium even without life-extension bio-nano, and may support a population in the millions.
http://www.orionsarm.com/civ/dysontree.jpg
Dyson Tree at Argheraal Prime L-1 orbit.
This relatively young tree is as yet sparsely populated, and does not show the massive hab development, utility fog whisps, and shuttle traffic characteristic of a more densely inhabited trees.
Price: $1.2 Trillion
A different kind of vacation resort?
A different kind of space habitat for your population?
Then why no try a
DYSON MEGATREE
Genetically engineered trees.
Created to function as a biological space habitat.
(First proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson in the early Information Age.)
http://www.orionsarm.com/gallery/Orwood_Forest.jpg
A fully grown tree is a spherical structure up to a hundred kilometers across. Generally consists of 4-6 trunk structures growing out from a comet nucleus. Branches grow from the top of each trunk and intertwine and merge with each other to form a single structure. The trunks and primary branches are hollow and contain a breathable atmosphere and symbiotic ecology as well as a space adapted ecology on their exteriors. Various sub-species have been engineered to survive at a variety of distances from a star and under various wavelengths. Generally found at distances ranging from .5-4 AU around stars in the G, K and M class.
Growth of a new tree begins when a suitable comet is diverted into a close solar orbit and a seed is planted on it. Over several years the seed extends a root system into and around the comet and then begins the growth of the primary trunk systems. Depending on the material supply in the comet and the distance from the star, full growth may take up to a century. However, most trees are ready for initial habitation within 10 years of planting. Average tree lifetimes run to a millennium even without life-extension bio-nano, and may support a population in the millions.
http://www.orionsarm.com/civ/dysontree.jpg
Dyson Tree at Argheraal Prime L-1 orbit.
This relatively young tree is as yet sparsely populated, and does not show the massive hab development, utility fog whisps, and shuttle traffic characteristic of a more densely inhabited trees.
Price: $1.2 Trillion