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. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
