Terra's World

I am very well aware that this report is over two weeks late, and yes, I understand that I would have more time to work on my homework if I wasn't watching Singing in the Stars. Thank you all for the reminder e-mails. Geesh. Here it is.

The Polyhedron Stations
an essay by
Terra Cantu

The prompt for this essay was: describe the polyhedron stations to a first-time visitor.

The polyhedron stations are five of the seventeen stations within Earth's solar system. The five stations can be locked together in various ways to form geometric objects, including a dodecahedron (12 sided object), a stellated polyhedron (a star-shaped object) and an enlongated pentagonal cupoula (an object that looks like a flat-bottomed geometric zit).

The purpose of this is to completely surround interstellar debris, including asteroids that happen to wander into our path, for mining, study and well, basically destruction. In the future, these stations will leave the solar system and look for debris in deep space.

But what a first-time vistor is going to need to know about is the noise. Bring earplugs. Becasue when the scoops get going, you're going to swear your teeth are going to fall out. And bring something to read, because, unless you like analyzing rocks, you're going to be bored out of your skull.

Image courtesy of NASA

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