On 11/1/2017 2:26 PM, C. Berry wrote:

> You'd probably want to leave the ship slowly rotating, to heat it evenly
> (time-averaged). You'd want the axis of rotation perpendicular to the
> incident starlight, which would require active adjustments to maintain
> over the course of an orbit around the star. I imagine a tug visiting
> every few months to do this to all the ships in a given boneyard. The
> tug crews might call it a torque tour.

Can't you just point the axis and/or nose straight "up" or "down"?  No
adjustment required, assuming a zero-inclination orbit, except for
precession or other drift.

Pity the hulls probably wouldn't be close enough for naked-eye
observation; spoils the visual of a dozen starships all slowly rotating
like kebab rotisseries.

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