@jeffzugale @PTR_K @nyrath (I've had longstanding personal headcanon that the protruding panels on Babylon 5 were actually radiators, but I don't think they were intended to be.)
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Matt McIrvin (mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 10:49:19 JST 
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Foone🏳️⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 10:49:17 JST 
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@floatybirb @mattmcirvin @jeffzugale @PTR_K @nyrath it makes sense! They may look like solar panels, but they're never called that as far as I know, and canonically the station is powered by fusion reactors. Why would you build solar panels that big if you have fusion reactor(s)?
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Floaty Birb (floatybirb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 10:49:18 JST 
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@mattmcirvin @jeffzugale @PTR_K @nyrath I have the same headcanon, but I think I only got that idea after I started reading atomic rockets.
Being radiators would sort of make sense because of how they were attached to the fusion reactor at the rear of the station, although it might be weird that they're kind of pulled forward away from the reactor - maybe in universe that was done to minimize radiation dissipation.
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Foone🏳️⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 13:31:50 JST
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@floatybirb @mattmcirvin @jeffzugale @PTR_K @nyrath very good point!
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Floaty Birb (floatybirb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 13:31:51 JST
Floaty Birb
@foone @mattmcirvin @jeffzugale @PTR_K @nyrath also they are on both sides of the station, so at most only one of them would be lit at once. it would be more efficient to have mobile solar panels that rotated to face the sun.
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