Recent content by mikin8tor

True, but at high altitudes, you might be 2 or 3 miles from the 1g (or maybe 0.8g) surface, and the centripetal force that you lose when you are no longer being supported by a rotating curved surface at that altitude would be very small (say 0.05g) and so could be managed with minimal...

I have not. I will check it out.

Yes. Coriolis forces will be a major influence on the dynamics of the bodies of air and water inside of the large chambers. Intense cyclones are likely if there are not baffling surfaces to inhibit their formation. That's what I am trying to work out. For the lower altititudes, I am thinking...

Hi. I'm working on a science fiction story about colonization of the solar system. Asteroid way stations are an important part of the story. I want to construct a realistic scenario about how we could convert the Eros asteroid into a shuttling habitat in it's current orbit (or something close...