Where are the humans?
- Thread starter DangerMouse81
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Haha! Maybe!
I would love just to see a few people walking around, it'll just add that little bit more
This should be addressed, FD.You should feel lonely in deep space, not inside stations.
Sure, assuming you're in vacuum. Also, this is called 'free fall', also in certain situations 'an orbit'
Why don't the people that walk the opposite way around Earth float off the ground?
Almighty Bob
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I hope you do not drive like that on earth
Caus its spinning at 1000 mph and you walk at about 3?
So do we get people in v1.1?
Where are the humans? Behind you just about to fire the volley of dumbfires.
Centrifugally induced gravity does not work the same way as planetary gravity.
Imagine you are inside a rotating cylinder (like Rama for all you SF fans) The end caps of the cylinder have a ladder from the centre to the circumference of the cylinder. If you were doing down the ladder you would start of with zero gravity. Every step you took would increase the gravity until it reached max at the inside ’floor’ of the cylinder. Now imagine floating down next to the ladder but not actually touching it. You wouldn’t feel any gravity until you actually hit the floor.
Imagine you are inside a rotating cylinder (like Rama for all you SF fans) The end caps of the cylinder have a ladder from the centre to the circumference of the cylinder. If you were doing down the ladder you would start of with zero gravity. Every step you took would increase the gravity until it reached max at the inside ’floor’ of the cylinder. Now imagine floating down next to the ladder but not actually touching it. You wouldn’t feel any gravity until you actually hit the floor.
There is good reason why there are not character Models, its so nobody knows yet. When they add the Models people will find out that we all are Thargoids and the Humans have been defeated long ago!
(Just finishing Garden of Rama just now. My 1971 original Rendevous with Rama has a pull-out with something that looks ridiculously like the inside of an Orbis station. Submitted upon request)
The "you wouldn't feel gravity unless you touched it" is clearly unfounded. Our Earth orbits Sol because of gravity. If "spin induced" gravity affected the Earth in any meaningful way, we would be flung off the surface as we're on the outside.
Real gravity is simply to do with mass. EVERY object on Earth (pretty much. Don't try this on K2 anyone...) accelerates in the same way as the mass of the Earth is so, so, so much greater than the mass of the object. In reality, the acceleration is due to the combined masses, but the Earth weighs 6E21 tonnes. The biggest stuff we drop is about 100 tonnes.
Spinny gravity isn't gravity at all, but a car that is moving AT ALL relative to the space station is still accelerating in a straight line, and the wall in front of it curves away "up" from it, so the "gravity" is actually the effect of the road pushing the car up the wall. As it's a circle, the effect is constant and continuous for a constant speed. But the faster the car moves, the more force is involved, so racing would be difficult on pneumatic tyres. *grin*
I find it silly that they have trucks just driving in circles over and over again. They don't stop to unload. They just keep driving. Forever. They are all the same color, they don't slow down. Its just dump trucks for eternity.
Yeah I should really have used "gravity" to describe Centrifugally induced gravity because its not real gravity at all. On the subject of planetary spin and gravity, many people think we would all float of into space if the earth spin slowed down to a stand still. Well assuming it didnt happen suddenly (in which case everything else would continue moving at 1000 MPH) You wouldn't float off but instead get heavier as the centrifugal effect lessened and the effect of gravity increased.
It could never work like that - if you were floating down from the ladder without touching it the ladder would move away from you as the station spun - You'd have velocity down towards the inside of the cylinder but no rotational velocity - which is why there would be no centripetal force to feel. In order to float down alongside the ladder you would have to have some kind of thruster system to give you rotational velocity - at which point you would feel exactly the same acceleration as if you were holding onto the ladder (ie. you would feel the same apparent gravity).
There's nothing magic about being part of the station system in terms of what you feel as apparent gravity - it all depends on the acceleration you're under.
You do not see them ? They are here, all around you ... with your imagination, quite simply
