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Interesting how we're potentially moving one step closer to how scifi envisioned as spacecraft interiors. For some unexplainable, and likely incorrect, reason this gives me hope that we are moving toward a space-faring civilization.

As for the scale of the compartments, extrapolate from the size of the chairs. It's pretty small.

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> Interesting how we're potentially moving one step closer to how scifi envisioned as spacecraft interiors.

That's most likely because the interior designers were just influenced by the scifi visions.

Art reflects life reflects art.

> As for the scale of the compartments, extrapolate from the size of the chairs. It's pretty small.

I got the exact opposite impression. It might be small compared to a mcmansion kitchen but it is HUGE compared to historic or even contemporary spacecraft. Way more spacious than the Shuttle cockpit at least.

If you haven't been to the Air & Space Museum in DC, it is worth it just for a sense of scale on spacecraft. In particular the interior of Skylab was much more cramped than I would have guessed.

All that empty space in the capsule will likely be filled with compartments for cargo, making it cramped again.

It's like physical RAM.

It will always be used at capacity.

This is called Parkinson's Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law#Generalizati...

Even more so at the Natl Air & Space Musuem is look at the Mercury capsule that John Glenn used to orbit the Earth. Basically flying through space in a refrigerator.

I guess something close to James S.A. Corey "Expanse series". Living in asteroids and some moons. (forget the magic worm hole)

Or on giant Orbitals like Ian M Banks's Culture civilizations (Musk named the two drone ships after Culture General System Vehicles from the Book "The Player of Games").

Universal Century 0079: The Principality of Zeon has declared its independence from the Earth Federation, and subsequently launched a massive war of independence, a war which has raged in every continent on earth and in nearly every space colony and lunar settlement.

But seriously Mobile Suit Gundam was pretty forward thinking on its takes of space colonization. Tons of asteroids brought into orbit of earth.

Massive orbitting spinning colonies.

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