Comments on: Artificial Gravity Via Bigelow Space Stations? http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/03/artificial-gravity-via-bigelow-space-stations.html Discussing reasonable ways to colonize our solar system Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: colonyworlds.com http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/03/artificial-gravity-via-bigelow-space-stations.html#comment-1519 colonyworlds.com Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:08:00 +0000 http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/03/artificial-gravity-via-bigelow-space-stations.html#comment-1519 <b>@ Qraal:</b> That is not a cool idea...its a great idea!<br/><br/>While rotating the station to simulate Martian gravity may be a bit harder, lunar (not to mention the habitable Galilean Moons plus Titan) should be "fairly easy" to create.<br/><br/>~Darnell<br/><br/><b>Note:</b> I just received an email from Ken Talton who gives further insight regarding this over at the <a HREF="http://brickmuppet.mee.nu/gravity_w00t" REL="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Brickmuppet Blog</a>. @ Qraal: That is not a cool idea…its a great idea!

While rotating the station to simulate Martian gravity may be a bit harder, lunar (not to mention the habitable Galilean Moons plus Titan) should be “fairly easy” to create.

~Darnell

Note: I just received an email from Ken Talton who gives further insight regarding this over at the Brickmuppet Blog.

]]> By: qraal http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/03/artificial-gravity-via-bigelow-space-stations.html#comment-1518 qraal Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:29:00 +0000 http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/03/artificial-gravity-via-bigelow-space-stations.html#comment-1518 Hi DarnellIntriguing idea. A suggestion, with an eye to the future, is to set the Station's gee-level at Mars-equivalent (3.71 m/s^2, coincidentally Mercury's gee-level too.)If 6 rpm can be tolerated - and all the biomedical data actually gathered suggests so - then the radius of rotation at Mars-gee only has to be 9.4 metres. A separate Lunar gee deck at 4.1 metres would allow data to be collected on gee-levels on a number of moons (Luna, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and Titan.) Thus the adaptation of the body to eight different worlds can be studied.Cool idea? Hi DarnellIntriguing idea. A suggestion, with an eye to the future, is to set the Station's gee-level at Mars-equivalent (3.71 m/s^2, coincidentally Mercury's gee-level too.)If 6 rpm can be tolerated – and all the biomedical data actually gathered suggests so – then the radius of rotation at Mars-gee only has to be 9.4 metres. A separate Lunar gee deck at 4.1 metres would allow data to be collected on gee-levels on a number of moons (Luna, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and Titan.) Thus the adaptation of the body to eight different worlds can be studied.Cool idea?

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