Bell Dimension

3/6/17

Sleepy. Sublime dreamtime. Walk about, loose footsteps in the high meggers. Dreams of giant snakes that talk and reveal the crimes of neighbors. Dreams of grizzlies sparring, dissolving into county sheriff acolytes brow beating each other. Dreams of slippery slopes and endangered darlings. No speak speaking. No wonder, wondering.

Moon River.

Taking at a stab at what a Bell holds. Perhaps a thousand. Is that a good, round number for a work force population? Maybe something larger to maintain some genetic diversity. Maybe 2,000. What kind of space does it take to hold/move two thousand people? Goes off to google cruise liners.

Harmony of the Seas has 2,747 staterooms, with a wide variety of types, to accommodate (at double occupancy) 5,479 guests:

·         362.12 metres (1,188.1 ft)

·         66 m (217 ft) max beam

·         22.6 m (74 ft)

Ok, let’s reduce all that by half (and we might as well ditch the imperial measurements, cause you know, ‘merica):

·         181 meters long

·         33 meters wide

·         11 meters deep

That’s 65,703 cubic meters.

Let’s put that into the shape of a “bell”, or more likely, a cylinder, so it can be rotated for gravity.

Dimensions chosen via golden ratio. Diameter x 1.618. 22,300 cubic meters should suffice.

That’s one big space butt plug.

For comparison, see the link below. I think we’re in the ballpark of an air craft carrier.

http://www.milsf.com/ship-size-tonnage-and-crew/

Imperial translation:  a space vehicle approximately 126 feet long, 78 feet wide.  With a total volume of 66,897 cubic feet.

So, that maybe points us to the answer of one question.   Now, add whiskey.

Apologies for the artwork. This is not my department.