Old CRT with rabbit ears, tuned to Gumby...

Today's word is 'television'!

I’m rewatching today’s episode of SFIA, ‘Self-Growing Habitats and Space Bases’. It occurs to me that if the life support architecture, ‘eLSA’, is biomechanical and grows components or forges non-living bits inside then it might expand the skin of the pressure vessel by pushing apart old plates like tree bark. New plates are grown in place behind the old and exposed when the old plates a released to slide out of the way. An inner flexible lining is strong and air-tight. The interior volume is most likely heavily compartmentalized and full of farms or biofactories and such. Algae, yeast, fungi can grow in between, especially for radiation shielding as mentioned, surface panels can absorb light and bring it inside with optical fibers. light on the surface of a freely spinning habitat could light up the interior with a constantly shifting pattern of light in a cycle which repeats a few times per minute.