Centrifugal Habitation on Earth, as it is in Space. 1

[princy]

I was reading an earlier post here by Boothby which got me thinking if you were to construct a large centrifugal habitat on Earth there would some very practical things to be gained from it. I'm talking enough space for 100 comfortable Centrinauts at least.

For your 100 million you get.
1. A view of the world spinning below.
2. The ability to create an artifical environment as it would be in space.
3. Testing & evaluation of construction materials.
4. Psychological profiling of people in such an environment.
5. Learning to live & work in space.

As a bonus you also get.
6. Lets say you start your Centrinauts off the first month at 1.25G, the next month 1.5G & finally your up to 2G at the end of three months. I'd just about bet you'd have every NFL team ready to sign up. Superhuman maybe ??
Bit of fun here but I can see worth in the idea.

 

[muklin]

have you been watching Dragonball Z again princy

How would you negate the effect of our 1G to make it work in the fist place. Or are you thinking of builing it around the whole world.

 

[princy]

Muklin,
Haven't you been to local fair lately ? If the habitat module is suspended vertically from a balanced beam as it spins up it will angle outward in proportion to the centrifugal & gravitational force. So the floor will seem to the occupant always level. If you enter from the base axial point which will be moving slowly compared to the outer edge you could easily access the habitat module. That my thoughts anyway.
Cheers
Princy

 

[IRstuff]

Since when is 2G "as it is in Space?"

TTFN

 

[muklin]

sorry, I automatically thought of a cylindrical floor, like Halo, or space oddesy 2001.

Which would be easier to construct, but impossible to run on earth.

 

[princy]

IRstuff,
When your trying to get somewhere in a big hurry !!
Cheers
Princy

 

[IRstuff]

So what's the point of elaborately simulating a condition that currently lasts for maybe 3 minutes?

There are no engines in existence or even contemplated that provide that much thrust for any longer periods of time.

TTFN

 

[princy]

Got me thinking again, if we never realise warped space worm hole travel etc & have to rely on good old acceleration. I did the math once albiet in my head very roughly that it takes more than a year at 1G to accelerate to close to light speed & then you have to slow down at 1G for another year to your destination making any practical interstellar travel very expensive. So nuclear is the only way to go I suspect. Has anyone played with imbalance propulsion ? Acceleration of particles in an eliptical path resultant centripital imbalance. I once built a model of the concept like many others which would lurch across the floor like a drunken centipede. Kinda like a chainsaw on a concrete surface moving in one direction at idle.
Cheers
Princy.

 

[IRstuff]

If you did the math, then you'd also found out that there isn't enough energy in the universe to get even the mass of human to light-speed.

Even ignoring the relativistic effects, a 1G acceleration for 1 year for a measly 70kg requires an energy source with 100GW output.

TTFN

 

[IRstuff]

Actually, it's worse than that, because that was average power.

TTFN

 

[princy]

Damn,
I guess that means where stuck for a little while longer !!