Travis replied to Anthony: > > Short answer is: we don't know. > > 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.
According to VXi6 that would be possible with a 3' radius, but only on the outer rim. That could be a cylindrical ship where the center of the cabin is zero G while the bulkheads are under very low G. Related question -- fiction tends to blur asteroid mining craft (go to a rock and bring raw materials home) and asteroid prospecting craft (find viable deposits). The Traveller Seeker does both, for example. More likely, there is a small craft (possibly robotic?) to check the asteroids and a larger one (manned?) to mine them. How small is a manned prospector, and how large is a manned miner? Are prospectors based on the miner or on a belt station? > For a base station, you probably want more unless it is a 'low rent' > district where people are responsible for their own bone health... A rotating ring station would have upper decks with less gravity than the main deck and lower decks with more gravity. Luxury apartments in the basement and slums in the penthouses. Peter F. Hamilton had 'starscrapers' which point outward from a big O'Neill cylinder. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
