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Re: Where's all that gravity coming from?
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lugnet.space
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Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:31:59 GMT
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Damraska wrote:
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> How about this: build a large drum (or box) with arms attached to opposite
> sides. At the end of each arm resides a habitation module. When stationary
> (or simply not accelerating), the arms pivot outward from the drum and you
> spin the whole ship. When thrusting, the arms pivot down, flush with the
> sides of the drum/brick. Airlocks on the ends and sides of the arms allow
> entry into the central hull depending on the position of the arms. The arms
> and habitation modules suffer stress along the same axis in both modes of
> operation. Come to think of it, when I was a little kid, I had a very, very
> cool space station model that used just this design. When folded, the whole
> space station was cylinder. After reaching orbit, three leaves folded out,
> away from the central body. Each leaf comprised a habitation module (with
> many decks). The central tube contained fuel and the thrusters.
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You just described my "Extra Stout" space tug - an entry into Mark
Sandlin's space contest of this past summer:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1018
The only difference is that I didn't rotate the entire ship, just the
pods and arms. There's a rotator cuff with internal passageways which
permits the bridge and cargo areas to remain stationary while the cuff
rotates.
Check out the descriptive text file.
Jeff
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