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To: BookaT
Any chance on just getting super dense material form somehwere and putting that at the core of a space station to stimulate gravity effects?

Sure...but you'd have to have as much as a planet weighs in order to generate one G of gravity from it. Now imagine trying to boost that mass into space...

7 posted on 11/27/2004 2:13:35 PM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Oberon
Sure...but you'd have to have as much as a planet weighs in order to generate one G of gravity from it. Now imagine trying to boost that mass into space...

Not completely. A denser than Earth substance would allow one to get closer to the gravitational center so that less mass would be required to obtain 1 g. As it happens if one could stand on the core of the Earth one would experience 1 g. (The massive core still being to much to launch.)

32 posted on 11/27/2004 6:03:46 PM PST by Poincare
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