> 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.
The gradient depends on the radius of the ring. Back several years ago (on this list I think, maybe it was another) I was looking at SpinG, and a 1km radius (to the outermost level) at 1 rpm generated about 10 m/s^2 of acceleration (slightly more than 1g). Assuming about 100m of difference between inner skin and outer skin, the inner skin is still just over 1g. While 1 rpm seems slow, the outermost skin was travelling at an alarmingly high speed, over 376 km/h. (234 mph), well not that bad at orbital velocities, but still, docking at the mast instead of the ring makes the most sense. ======================================================== -Coyt "The Internet, billions of electrons with nothing better to do." _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
