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Not necessarily. Andy Weir's 'Hail Mary Project' describes a way you can get the best of both worlds: don't make a full ring, but spin two objects separated by
by mabbo 5y ago
Not necessarily. Andy Weir's 'Hail Mary Project' describes a way you can get the best of both worlds: don't make a full ring, but spin two objects separated by cables.
Split the initial station into two stations with a large number of cables connecting them securely. Now on your calculator, put in a 70m radius and a gravity of only 0.3g. All green dots.
But how do you get between the halves?" you ask? I think there's a simple answer to that: have cables complete the circle. A small car riding those cables can carry you around the radius. Then over time, you add more cells until the circle is complete!
- ncmncm 5y agoIf you give one half of the station twice the mass of the other, you can test out living in lunar gravity and Mars gravity at the same time. Maybe only one of those will turn out to be enough to stop bone loss. Maybe neither one. It would be better to know that before building a base. The zipline would be trickier to make work, then. Probably you have a gadget that walks up the tether, and then you flip around and it walks down to the other end.