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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face; moose07; BenLurkin; Darksheare; ArGee; NoCmpromiz; NicknamedBob
For those interested, here's a link to a neat artificial gravity calculator, change one of four variables and see the results. ( real time ) Pretty cool thing to whip out at the fusty dinner party or neighborhood pub. You too can now enjoy such rejoinders as these...

"Sorry Smedley old boy, but your space station concept is as obsolete as that hideous cow creamer at your elbow. Just not enough tangential velocity to provide acceptable g at the rim of your ring world given the size of the thing. Now if...."

"You silly git! Step away from the pint and stop blowing smoke rings from your arse bigger than the rings of Saturn...see, this is wot 'appens..."

Artificial Gravity Calculator

maybe someone who has the original thread ping list could alert others.

Get it now, because there is a ten year old armed with such information and prepared to use it and leave you slackjawed and gobsmacked for lack of an answer.

565 posted on 07/20/2016 4:47:18 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

That’s a useful calculator.
Could be handy for finding out if the latest creation to roll out of your Shed is going to fly apart the first time you barrel roll it.

*Stuffing more tobacco into Pipe*
Yes.....Hmmmm...handy that.

:)


567 posted on 07/20/2016 4:57:11 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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