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Re: Where's all that gravity coming from?
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lugnet.space
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Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:03:13 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Doug Dropeskey writes:
> If I were going to build a hard sci-fi interstellar ship, I think it would
> be Orion with a Bussard Ramjet on the front and 'sci-fi' shielding against
> interstellar radiation. I would use a box for the spun section put working
> surfaces on the walls (for use under spin) and floor (for use under thrust).
ah, well,
having done the astrophysics route in school,
if i were going to build a "hard sci-fi" ship,
it would use a rotating magnet to tap flux (massless charge)
from spacetime, create an inertial field, drop my connection
to standard spacetime (i.e. become relativistic, or the 'center'),
move the universe until my location = my destination,
reestablish my connection, and voila, i'm there.
but, hey, that's just me...
(and it would sure piss of a lot of establishment physicists,
not to mention some serious power-brokers)
-paul
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| As some people have already pointed out, you can rotate just about any structure for artificial gravity--a drum, a torus, a rectangular box, or a box at the end of a boom (with suitable counterweight). The problem with this methodology is the amount (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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