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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 21:51:23 GMT
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I'm going to chime in, and hopefully not get smacked down to hard.
I read a book a whole bunch of years ago called The Forever War. I believe
that the military was placing troopers in special suits and putting them all
in basically giant vats of water. IIRC, it's because water isn't really that
compressible and help offset the high g's as they blasted through space.
But I read it a real long time ago.
Evil Wayne
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In lugnet.space, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.space, Damraska wrote:
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> [snip]
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> > That's only the start of your problems. :)
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> [snip]
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> Here's another problem: with the conventional approach of acceleration via
> some propulsion, artificial gravity is not your problem. The real problem
> is shedding the excessive G's.
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> My numbers could be (way) off, but (assuming I'm right) if your ship
> accelerates at a constant 1G for the first half the trip, and decelerates
> at 1G for the second half, you can reach Alpha Proxima in about 2 years.
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> That's fine for an explorational crew, but it sucks for military or
> commercial ships. The only way to get there faster is to accelerate
> harder. Because distance traveled varies with the square of time, you've
> got to accelerate 4 times as hard to get there in half the time. To cut
> your travel time down to 6 months, you'll be under 16G accel/decel all the
> way.
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> Ouch.
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> And yes, this is all ignoring Officer Einstein's interstellar speed limit.
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> Steve
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| In lugnet.space, Damraska wrote: [snip] (...) [snip] Here's another problem: with the conventional approach of acceleration via some propulsion, artificial gravity is not your problem. The real problem is shedding the excessive G's. My numbers could (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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