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Old 03-19-2011, 02:15 AM   #35
jeff_wilson
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Default Re: O'Neill Cylinders

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Originally Posted by Brett View Post
Sure. I don't go in for single-biome planets, and even if I did you would be dead right about the possibility of building different sorts of environments as training ranges at a single campus. It is the gravity issue that binds. I think I need free-fall, asteroidal gravity, light, medium, and heavy. So I can get away with a light planet, a heavy planet, and multiple locations in this solar system.
The habitat is superior to Disneyworld in that lower gravity levels are available at locations closer to the axis, and if you have those pods I mentioned a while back extending further from the axis, then you've got heavier gravities, though they might not be roomy enough for operations there to count as field exercises.
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