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Thread: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in the room
Post: RE: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in t...
| I take your points gentlemen, but I'd also add that it hasn't yet been demonstrated that a full 1G is necessary for good health and comfortable living. I speak only for myself, of course, but I wouldn... |
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10-30-2015, 01:27 PM |
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Thread: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in the room
Post: RE: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in t...
| (10-20-2015, 07:22 AM)JoeStrout Wrote: Well, you should read the Globus & Hall paper. It includes a lot of research from the 80s, which of course nobody would have known about in 1978. But plea... |
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10-20-2015, 10:35 AM |
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Thread: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in the room
Post: RE: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in t...
| I've just found the book I had mislaid, Heppenheimer's 'Colonies in Space' from 1978, very inspiring read if you can find a copy. I'm quoting bits from pages 153 to 156 here:
"When our 1975 Summer St... |
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10-20-2015, 06:24 AM |
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Thread: Hello!
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| Correction, found the book and it wasn't by O'Neil himself, it was by Heppenheimer, "Colonies in Space" ISBN 044681581 0 published by New England Library 1978. Inspirational reading... |
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10-20-2015, 06:00 AM |
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Thread: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in the room
Post: RE: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in t...
| Is that 2 RPM definitely with the head closer to the axis of spin than the feet? If so, I'm surprised, but if that's what the evidence thus far says, then I bow to the evidence!
I'm envious of you b... |
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10-18-2015, 08:54 AM |
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Thread: Planetbase (colonization game)
Post: RE: Planetbase (colonization game)
| It does indeed look good. Crying shame there's no Linux version, though :-( |
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10-16-2015, 09:49 AM |
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Thread: Havihng problems getting anything built in demo version
Post: Havihng problems getting anything built in demo ve...
| Hello!
I've downloaded and been trying the demo version today. After some initial struggling getting used to the design editor, I finally came up with a design that appeared to be workable (a cylinde... |
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10-16-2015, 09:39 AM |
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Thread: Hello!
Post: Hello!
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My name is Esme. I can remember peering up at the stars and wondering what they were when I was about five - devouring every book on science in the library when I was given a library card at t... |
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10-16-2015, 06:24 AM |
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Thread: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in the room
Post: RE: Reduced Gravity: the 400-kilogram gorilla in t...
| (08-10-2015, 09:40 PM)JoeStrout Wrote: Interesting essay on the need for artificial gravity research over at The Space Review.
I couldn't agree more. After all these decades, we really should hav... |
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