Re: A89: What's Wrong?

To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: What's Wrong?
From: TGaArdvark@aol.com
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:18:38 EST
Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org

Ah, but that is only the spot at which gravity is zero.
I'm sure you are aware that humans can survive quite
comfortably when the gravitational pull is greater than
zero.  After all, most of us are pretty darn close to a
good-sized gravity generator that is not significantly
canceled (AKA Earth).  It should not be extremely
difficult to make a modest living quarters with very
Earthlike conditions inside that area, assuming it's
properly designed.  But then there are a few other
problems, like what we would make the generators
out of.  Most of the substances we have now tend to
bend or break under the force of your average planet.
This does not, however, eliminate the possibility.
Just eliminates the possibility of having one built
and launched by Tuesday.

In a message dated 1/13/01 8:11:01 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
lilpjd@yahoo.com writes:

> I do have to admit that your demonstration of it is more easily understood.
>  However, it is too much of a simplification.  That "safe" zone that you
>  mention will only be a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a mm, and
>  therefore, it is only a theoretical "safe" zone, for something with _no_
>  volume.  Also, expanding that "safe" zone into 3D, you would only end up
>  with a point in space that is "safe" and therefore nothing useful could 
come
>  of it.

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Re: A89: What's Wrong?

From: "Peter David" <lilpjd@yahoo.com>