Re: Interesting concultural ideas
| From: | Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 18:15 |
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What about a rinh orbiting a sun, spinning at the speed as the earth with
people living on the OUTside of the ring rather than the inside?
It could be engineered to have the proper radius & mass to have a
gravitational pull 1G (GMm/r^2, etc) and a rotational period of around 24hr.
It wouldn't have to rely on rotation to simulate gravity. It wouldn't need
to simulate day/night. It would be much easier on cartographers (no
projection distortions to worry about). And would seem to be a much easier
undertaking.
andy.
adchaney@louisiana.edu
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