Maybe you could walk around in weight vests... 50 - 75 pounds in lesser gravity to keep you constantly exeercising...
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Travis Watkins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
