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WCDT: 2286-90 (1-5 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Omega Entity:
Wouldn't they have thrusters on something that big and expensive to keep the orbit from degrading, though?
DSL:
At the risk of resurrecting the whole "but which way does it spin?" thread ... yeah, seems you'd want something like that, just for insurance and fine-tuning the orbit. You wouldn't need a delta of more than a few m/s. The station probably avoids the most likely cause of orbital degradation -- atmo drag -- because, judging from Jeph's drawings, it's in high LEO but not quite GEO. I say "probably" because Jeph describes an orbital period of about 90 minutes, consistent with low LEO comparable to the shuttles and ISS in the real world -- and ISS does have orbital-maintenance thrusters.
EDITED to correct last reference from GEO to LEO. Duh.
FunkyTuba:
I'd love to know more about Station, but I suspect we'll have to wait for Jeph to get back around to constructing an arc that includes him. We spent so much (awesome) time up in space, I'm guessing we'll catch up on several of the other story lines that have been back-burnered before going back there.
Is it cold in here?:
Jeph said in a Tumblr Q&A that Station is too big to fit on normal server hardware.
AnthroPCs can sell their bodies: Pintsize was pondering what to do with the money if he sold his military-grade hardware and traded down to a civilian model.
Omega Entity:
Speaking of character Twitter accounts crossing over into the comic...
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