On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Anthony Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Onno Meyer > > > > How much gravity does a decent asteroid mining ship need? How much for > > a base station where people live? > > Short answer is: we don't know. > There is a lot we don't know, but we can speculate and extrapolate... For example, for bone-loss, I would expect that anything less than ~0.8g would require supplementary exercise for anyone not engaged in 'heavy labor' to avoid bone loss. On the other hand, convection would just get slower and slower the lower the gravity, perhaps multiply cooling times by 1/g for stationary objects without some sort of fan(at least until you get to levels where conduction and black body radiation dominate cooing times). For an asteroid mining ship, I would expect that you mostly want enough gravity to avoid having things float around the cabin and foul your vents, so 0.01 should be enough, perhaps even less. So long as the crew are getting enough exercise that may be enough. For a base station, you probably want more unless it is a 'low rent' district where people are responsible for their own bone health... _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
