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Old 03-19-2011, 04:17 AM   #36
Peter Knutsen
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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.
What about also training in rotational gravities?

For slow RPM rotations, like in an O'Neill size habitat, the coriolis(sp?) effect should be neglible, but for much smaller habitats it will be an issue.
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