[SPACE] Life Support greater than 24 hrs less than infinite?

[rook111]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Not actually what the description of habitat says. It is described as "extended life support for long voyages." The ship design system is insufficiently granular to distinguish between a habitat that can take you to the moon and back at TL 7, and a habitat for the voyage to Mars at TL 8. But in neither case would the systems be capable of infinite recycling. They have enough capacity to do the job the ship was designed for, is all.

My problem comes with my assumption that space craft built today would not have Habitates but would instead be built with seating, which in spaceships specificly states 24 hrs of life support. But even with the use of habitats and the non "granular" system I find it diufficult to make an educated guess of what the duration of any given craft i design is without being arbitray. I was hopeing for some advice.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by rook111

My problem comes with my assumption that space craft built today would not have Habitates but would instead be built with seating,

Not the space shuttle. The lab equipment and sleeping accomadations would be a habitat. I'd say incidentally, that the thing to do for seating with extended duration, would be to increase the cost and nothing else.