Re: Colonizing other places in ours sytem

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From: "Thomas Barclay" <kaladorn@magma.ca>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 7:36 PM
Subject: Colonizing other places in ours sytem

> I've seen lots of sci-fi about making mars
> habitable by giving it an atmosphere (ignoring
> perhaps that the retention of molecules of
> various type is I believe a byproduct of
> gravity!). I've seen similar thoughts about the
> moon. I've seen thoughts about living inside
> domes. And they've talked about (I think)
> Ganymede or some other moons as possible
> places to live.
>
> But what I haven't seen is anyone suggest how
> we beat the gravity problems. I've seen studies
> by NASA (I believe) and others that seemed to
> indicate that long term exposure to lower or
> zero gravity depressed the human immune
> system in an AIDS like manner. I've seen studies
> that suggest you get bone density problems
> that can't be fully offset by excercise. So, how
> do we live on the moon or mars for a long time
> barring the development of large scale,
> presumably energy consumptive, gravity plating
> that lets us simulate something like 75% or
> better of a standard gravity? I mean this alone
> seems to make Mars infeasible with today's
> tech. We could go there, but it'd do a number
> on us if we tried to live there....
>
> Any thoughts? References?
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> Thomas Barclay
> Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca
> Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site
>
> No Battle Plan Survives Contact With Dice.
> -- Mark 'Indy' Kochte
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>
>

A idea that was used in the dirty pair commics was having the base
inside a
rotating wheel that is angled off the horizontal, and uses centrifugal
force
to increase the effective gravity to what is required.

BIF