 | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —John D. Forinash
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| | | (...) Redundancy sounds heavy-- but you don't need it. I don't think there's any reason why the axis of rotation has to be the same as the direction of thrust of the ship's engines. So you simply build the rotating assembly, in this case (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —Doug Dropeskey
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| | | | J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message news:986560$3pl$1@y2...net.foo... (...) for (...) the (...) I considered and discarded that methodology, but upon reflection, I cannot think of a good reason why. It could work. The probability (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —John D. Forinash
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| | | | | (...) It does have the annoyance that spinning up/spinning down affects both parts of the ship, so you have to use small thrusters to get pointing in the right direction before you can fire the main engine. This, interestingly enough, has a neat (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) Would it be possible to make a Bussard scoop out of some kind of projected magnetic field? Two basic questions here: 1. do hydrogen atoms react to magnetic fields and 2. could such a field be constructed/projected? Unfortunately, I don't have (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —Doug Dropeskey
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| | | | | | | | Steve Bliss <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:tftfat0suhi02f1...4ax.com... (...) hydrogen (...) Any ionozed atom reacts to a magnetic field (since it has charge). I always assumed a Bussard ramjet requires a *big* electromagnetic scoop, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —Doug Dropeskey
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| | | | | | J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message news:9889lg$s7$1@ana...net.foo... (...) cannot (...) parts (...) right (...) rotational (...) probably (...) in (...) implies (...) minifigs (...) How about this: build a large drum (or box) (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —John D. Forinash
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| | | | | | | (...) Ooooh, tethers. I like that idea. Though I dunno how to build it in Lego. :) In fact, one could do something like this where both sides are habitation modules, and have an "elevator" that climbs and descends the tethers should minifigs need to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —Jeff Elliott
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| | | | | | (...) <snip> (...) <snip> You just described my "Extra Stout" space tug - an entry into Mark Sandlin's space contest of this past summer: (URL) only difference is that I didn't rotate the entire ship, just the pods and arms. There's a rotator cuff (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) It's that higher-technology, doing more work with less mass. Steve (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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