To: NicknamedBob
space-enhanced winter sports.
Ice skating, tobogganing, perhaps even arranging that zero-gee swimming pool during transit Um. I was quite the swimmer in my day, but I can't say which I would fear more: zero-gee pools (without SCUBA gear), or frozen pools (any gravity.
38,798 posted on
11/07/2004 6:13:14 PM PST by
sionnsar
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To: sionnsar
Zero-gravity swimming? Isn't that for fish?
38,800 posted on
11/07/2004 6:13:48 PM PST by
Tax-chick
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To: sionnsar
In the latter can I at least wear my fur-lined full-body Speedo?
38,802 posted on
11/07/2004 6:14:10 PM PST by
sionnsar
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To: sionnsar
"Um. I was quite the swimmer in my day, but I can't say which I would fear more: zero-gee pools (without SCUBA gear), or frozen pools (any gravity."
SO WAS I!!! I can still out-swim anyone I know -- :-)
38,806 posted on
11/07/2004 6:15:41 PM PST by
Monkey Face
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To: sionnsar
"...which I would fear more: zero-gee pools (without SCUBA gear), or frozen pools (any gravity." It would be really tough to get it exactly centered enough to be a true zero-gee.
More likely, it would be a low-gravity pool, where even a poor swimmer could "porpoise". As to the remperature, the water comes from melting the ice, right? Just stop adding heat when you find it comfortable.
For the 'berg, it's a one way trip. But some of the amenities, like a nuclear reactor for making the ride comfortable, would likely be recycled back to Earth orbit a few times, depending on how many were needed System-wide.
38,822 posted on
11/07/2004 6:23:26 PM PST by
NicknamedBob
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