Posted on 03/15/2013 10:16:41 AM PDT by Cajun Jihad
Edited on 03/15/2013 10:18:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Ta! Outta here, for sure!
See you soon!
Thank you for your kind words but we are all intact because of each other. Each contributes to each with words of FRiendship and support. The most unique of the unique are the UT members, and all the members of this forum on the web. No forum nowhere, on the web, like FR and no support group like FR. No better informed group of people than the people of this forum. May each of us Stay Safe for the work to be done, and the support to be given each to one another is more important than any one of us for all of us are important and must dedicate ourselves to the tasks presented. (mho)
Morning everyone. May our day be productive.
Good morning. You’re up early!
Thanks! I was glad to get up - I was having crazy dreams about things like the van falling in a lake and Jimmy Buffett cooking breakfast at my house. That one had a snake in it, too.
Just remember to be a complete sweetheart when you're not being annoying. Let ArGee be your guide.
Colonel Flagg isn't quite as good at being annoying as ArGee is, so I wouldn't get any advice from him. He is awfully nice, though.
Darks is... well... Darks! Ya gotta love him.
Ah! I detect an undercurrent of curmudgeonliness.
*rubs hands*
Good, good! Carry on!
Serious question on the above topic. The spaceship "Discovery" in "2001: A Space Odyssey," used a rotating area to simulate gravity of (seemingly) 1g throughout the flight to Saturn. Wouldn't that require the same expenditure of energy on the part of Discovery as simply propelling itself at 1g toward Saturn? The rotational force isn't "free," right?
ROFL! Mental picture!! ROFL!
You’re a treasure, NnBob!
Prolly, but I won't call it easy. My uncle had to raise two grandchildren as his own children because his daughter was a drug-addled mess. They got through it OK, but it wasn't easy.
Why are you giving them advice like that, ToL? Did they do something to offend you?
Not at all! Silentgypsy wanted advice on being annoying. She was the one I was addressing. The rest were courtesy pings. [smiles]
You know I love ya, AR!
The rotational force isn't free; one pays for it at the beginning by investing the necessary action-reaction energy expenditure to set the vessel turning.
Once begun, however, there is little to slow it or stop it. Minor changes in rotational velocity are manifested by the change of position of various masses, including human bodies, but in comparison to the mass of the ship, these are hardly noticeable.
Of course, any long-term development, such as the designation of a new storage area, would have to be offset by shifting other weights around to balance. Think of rebalancing the washer when it chokes on a load of towels.
Short term dynamic balancing can be effected by pumping liquids from one tank to another. And an aggressive dynamic balancing can be maintained by rotating a large mass at the center of gravity of the vessel.
The major problem with artificial gravity in space habitats is having "enough room to swing a cat". Space is normally at a premium in space. Some suggestions have been to rotate masses on long tethers to maintain artificial gravity. One familiar with our history and geography will note that we use an effective compromise; the Habitats go around a common axis of rotation, and are connected together with strong arms which contain our pipes, conduits, and transportation system.
“Let sleeping Blgthrgths lie” the sign said.
But he ignored it and confidently stepped out into the cordoned off square.
Something like a floppy wet towel slapped around his face!
UGH!
And it was an angry wet towel, making horrid noises as it slapped his head viciously!
Spinning, tripping, slapping at his face in a vain attempt to get the Blgthrgths off his face, he fell back over the cordone rope.
Where he died.
“I’m not dead!”
You stay out of this, I’m the narrator.
“I twisted my ankle!”
No, you’re dead, see? Says so right here.
“You wrote that in by hand!”
The blgthrgths will get you again.
“Get away from me you psycho!”
No sense of humor that one.
I have a house full of annoying, although not as full as usual since Tom and Elen are out.
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