Here is a link to a site regarding asteriod mining techniques. Thought it might be interesting. http://www.digistar.mb.ca/minsci/future/ASTEROID.HTM Here is a possible candidate for use if we decide to go with an asteroid. Its name is Kleopatra, its 135 miles long and 58 miles wide. Discovered in 1880 but never imaged until 2000. What's interesting to me is the shape, which is dogbone shaped, but looks like it might be an intriguing thing to use. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/news/kleopatra_pr_20000504.html

-- EmptyKube - 22 Jun 2004

Not exactly related, but inspirational. This is a current feature at the National Building Museum in Washington DC called Liquid Stone. It discusses new adaptations and applications of concrete: forms that don't require steel reinforcing, concrete that transmits light. I'm guessing that the style of construction within a hollowed asteroid might derive from this. Warning: this is fancy flash graphics. I wouldn't recommend viewing with a slow connection, also, it is kind of weird until you discover the navigation system, which is slick, but wasn't intuitive to me. http://www.nbm.org/liquid_stone/home.html

-- AnnelieseFox - 09 Jul 2004