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Re: Where's all that gravity coming from?
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Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:04:56 GMT
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In article <G9r30s.2v8@lugnet.com>,
Tony Hafner <hafhead@PANTSplanetquake.com> wrote:
You don't need a ring- you can have an arm of arbitrary length with a
compartment at the end.  And you can have as many compartments as you want,
as long as the center of gravity is at the axis.  I believe that there was a
ship with this sort of design in 2010: Odyssey 2.

Leonov was the ship in 2010 with that design. Omega class destroyers in
Babylon 5 use it, as well.

-JDF
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(...) You don't need a ring- you can have an arm of arbitrary length with a compartment at the end. And you can have as many compartments as you want, as long as the center of gravity is at the axis. I believe that there was a ship with this sort of (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)

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