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Circular dome colony over a very large rotating space, running on concentric rings of superconducting rails. Spokes of slidable inner-outer weights to counter b
by Nevermark 3y ago
Circular dome colony over a very large rotating space, running on concentric rings of superconducting rails. Spokes of slidable inner-outer weights to counter balance its residence’s movements.
Running on reliable constant nuclear power, from a safe distance.
Maximum gravity at the tilted edges. Only natural gravity at the center. Enter & exit from a tunnel that connects under the center.
Aside from the challenges of location & distance from Earth, if we can build small mobile cities on water (mega cruise lines) on the untamed ocean in Earth gravity, surely a small stationary spinning platter city in low gravity is possible.
I think humans are going to find out that one g has many uses besides health. Good for a lot of manufacturing too. Gravity is a stabilizer, vertical organizer, anchor. Just as low gravity will have many advantages. Being able to quickly “adjust” gravity, by moving location, will be significant.
- eru 3y ago> Being able to quickly “adjust” gravity, by moving location, will be significant. Who is doing the adjusting and the moving? I don't think you'd want to move anything large. You'd build eg your factory in the environment where it's best; and build a second factory in a different environment, instead of moving them around. However, if you eg making computer chips, you might move those around between different environments, depending on the processing step.
- Nevermark 3y agoYes, I meant move materials and parts between g-force specific equipment. If entire factories needed to "move" up and down in g-forces, they should be in their own variable spin bowls! Not sure what kind of factory that would be.