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bernal sphere exterior
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bernal sphere exterior

"a satellite in space with a satellite in the background"

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Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: May 17, 2006 05:28AM

Why would the living area need to be a sphere? It seems that a cylinder would be more logical since centrifugal force would only create "artificial gravity" along the interior walls of the craft as it rotates. The closer you got to the axis, the less "gravity" there would be -- so the sphere might as well be a cylinder.
John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: May 17, 2006 06:26AM

But a sphere would give you the centrifugal "gravity" in the middle, and a nice, even gradation of that gravity towards the ends... so you wouldn't have the shock of doing something at 1.0 Earth Gravity, and then suddenly moving to 0.2 Earth Gravity when you exit a cylinder. Just a thought.

Pretty picture though.