10-30-2015, 01:27 PM
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't be inclined to regard an environment that induces motion sickness as being a pleasant place to visit, let alone live in - and I'd also add that I am one that avoided all fairground rides (aside from bumping cars/dodgems) after discovering that even the mildest of such tend to make me violenty ill causing effects that lasted for hours afterwards. So yes, there is bias behind my skepticism, but that said, I believe data - it's a shame we haven't yet got more of it on this subject. Here's hoping we don't have to wait too many more years before some is obtained!
Hmmn..I've just had a thought; in an early and small toroidal station, one could have a number of habitable spokes extending outwards from the torus, to give a limited volume at a higher G than the bulk of the torus, if the simulated gravity in the torus itself was deemed to be a tad low for long term health. It'd be a bit like having buildings sunk into the ground ( rather like, IIRC, Jinx in Larry Niven's Known Space series of tales), with the top floor at ground level. Might that be easier to build than a larger torus?- And if that were practicable, maybe at a later date a second outer ring could be built linking what was teh basement of each spoke?
Hmmn..I've just had a thought; in an early and small toroidal station, one could have a number of habitable spokes extending outwards from the torus, to give a limited volume at a higher G than the bulk of the torus, if the simulated gravity in the torus itself was deemed to be a tad low for long term health. It'd be a bit like having buildings sunk into the ground ( rather like, IIRC, Jinx in Larry Niven's Known Space series of tales), with the top floor at ground level. Might that be easier to build than a larger torus?- And if that were practicable, maybe at a later date a second outer ring could be built linking what was teh basement of each spoke?