Recent content by Zaku2

wow, took me a too little long to wrap my head around all this for my liking :p thanks everyone for your input. guess I'm going to have to come up with a better idea then 'dig a big *** hole' to address the low grav issue. any input??

Fair enough. that assumes your passing through the mass instead of removing it? what if that 'uniform' mass was not above you to counter-act the change in your distance from the shell? like a 'frustam' shaped hole excavated to the apropriate depth, and wider at the top then the bottom.

I'm a huge space colonization and enterprise enthusiast. one thing i have noticed about most of the Mars habitat plans is they all plan to live on the surface, which is at 38% of Earth's gravity. this would lead to similar if not the same medical problems with astronauts that we already face in...