Re: Hockey, Curling and other sports (some futuristic)

Actually, the suggestion of Orbital Platform diving got me thinking...
Most "concept" space stations currently have a "ring" design in which
the ring spins in order to use centrifical force to simulate gravity.  

Some yahoo is going to try this:

Suiting up and going outside with a harness and a cable-winch with a
radio remote.  He'll epoxy/laser-weld or otherwise attach the winch to
the outside of the ring of the station and let himself out on the cable,
slowly increasing the "pull" of the centrifical force because he'll be
swinging in an ever increasing circle... Then he'll winch himself back
in and tell his buds how much it rocked... 

Hey, if people pay 40 dollars for a bungee-jump, they'll pay to swing on
a cable in space... 

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 18:11, Tomb wrote:

> Orbital Platform Diving

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