6th August 2003, 12:03 PM
It seems the latest craft for travelling long distances in space will be basically giant inflated tubes. They are apparently stronger in this case than metal for this job. Thus, in the future when star ships are made (even though space ship is such a much better term, not many will be going into stars after all :D), a major hull breech will occur due to a pin prick!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)