Posted on 07/11/2022 3:39:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Lunar Glass and Mars Glass...are massive spinning cones that will use centrifugal force to simulate the effects of Earth’s gravity. These spinning cones will have an approximate radius of 328 feet (100 meters) and height of 1,312 feet (400 meters), and will complete one rotation every 20 seconds, creating a 1g experience for those inside (1g being the gravity on Earth). The researchers are targeting the back half of the 21st century for the construction of Lunar Glass, which seems unreasonably optimistic given the apparent technological expertise required to pull this off.
The second element of the plan is the “core biome complex” for “relocating a reduced ecosystem to space,” according to a Google-translated version of the press release. The core biome complex would exist within the Moon Glass/Mars Glass structure and it’s where the human explorers would live, according to the proposal. The final element of the proposal is the “Hexagon Space Track,” or Hexatrack, a high-speed transportation infrastructure that could connect Earth, Mars, and the Moon. Hexatrack will require at least three different stations, one on Mars’s moon Phobos, one in Earth orbit, and one around the Moon (likely the planned Lunar Gateway).
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
Air and water would be nice, too.
Hope I get the concession.
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I’m sure there will be a koi pond.
Kevin Hurler, hurling a lot of fanciful drivel. Where is the money coming from?
But the moon does have gravity. It does not defy the laws of physics. It will also require energy to spin those cones. This is curious.
Don’t forget Term Limits ,LOL
This is the kind of thing we eventually expected from Japan back in the 80’s, when the specter of impending Japanese technological dominance gave rise to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Interstellar space travel and flying cars by 2019? It’s in the bag. The huge chunks of money Eisenhower dumped into Federal funding for education post-Sputnik was supposed to help us explore the final frontier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Education_Act
I’m still waiting.
Just think of the moon base we could have if we had worked at it for the last 50+ years, a little at a time.
Where is the money coming from?
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3 times/minute will make anyone inside dizzy and sick. The idea is sound and likely necessary for long-term lunar habitation, but the radius needs to be larger. My own thought is to build suitably tall towers with a torus spinning around them with living space in them, with the floors angled to the proper match between natural gravity and centripetal force. I’d estimate the radius needs to be at least 1 km. for a low enough spin rate for long term human comfort.
They’ll sneak in buckets full of gravity every time they visit and it all adds up. Science!
It was siphoned off to the great society... 🤮🤮🤮
Great.... a tilt a whirl on the moon. Idiot scientists.
Look, this has been addressed in so much sci fi. Leave 1G for any period of time it is excruciating to come back. Go to a 2g+ planet and come back and win the Olympic high jump. Wasting resources on a fun ride is a joke. The getting off this rock is permanent once we can. Space will make us waifs. High G planets if we can survive will make us incredible physical specimens.
The physics (math) behind this is pretty simple actually. The angular speed of 1 rev/20 sec (pi/10 rad/s) and 100m radius are not random figures. To simulate earth’s gravity, the centrifugal force must equal weight, or mw^2r = mg , or w = sqrt(g/r). The 1 revolution in 20sec for a 100m radius is one solution to this.
By weight I mean weight on earth.
Leave the moon alone! We need it for the tides (even though I realize we are talking about surface gravity in this article).
Of course you’ll have to stand (or sit) with your Y-axis oriented parallel to the gizmo’s centripetal force, else you don’t get the proper effect.
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