On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:38:36AM -0400, David Hobby wrote:

>       Yes, but I gave arguments showing that it did not give
> reasonable results.

Not at all convincing arguments, with no numbers or equations.

>       I believe I said "about constant".  I can deal with .75
> atmospheres when I go into the mountains.  And getting lighter as I
> climbed would be interesting...

So what is no longer constant to you? If it went down to 0.5
atmospheres?  Because it would have if R were 10 or 11km instead of 5km.

By the way, I just re-read Rama. The atmosphere changes quite a bit
later on after the Cylindrical Sea melts. That was what allowed the
Dragonfly pilot to breathe near the axis.



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