Hi all, Went jogging today and got this brainwave. Wonder where it will go.... So we've got a first milestone on the LEOstation. But it looks to me that that...
Maybe the Bigelow IS the garage, Ueli? Albeit customised to our specs, but seems to be it will be the same kind of structure, inflatable and well-kevlared. ...
Yeah Jan, I've been thinking of Bigelow hotels. They will have a role to play, by all means. I do believe much of the station may be built with a Bigelow as a...
Zero-G (or "micro-G") is pure bliss compared to gravity wells and artificial gravity set-ups. Miners wouldn't want the ring. They'd go for their own mobile...
Hi George, You may want to check with the LEOstation "milestone" to see what I meant with the ring as the garage doorframe..... You'll find it in the documents...
OK, sorry. Thanks for pointing that out to me, Ueli. A person can live an entire lifetime in zero-G. It's entering a gravity existence that's going to...
That's okay George. You're new on NEAmines, and we're all here to explain things. I'd be interested to know where you get the information from that humans...
1. Yes we gave agreed on that, the tug, and at least one tank is needed before much else can be done. Since the garage has no gravity, and is inflated most of...
Are you now suggesting a torus habitat instead of a sphere? The ring originally was just part of the frame for the garage.Jim Brown ... From: cygonaut...
There is strong evidence that you can not life well in zero G even if you never entire two percent gravity. Jim Brown ... From: cygonaut <george@...> To:...
Hey, I'm a spin-nut myself. It should be done more on earth. It's good for the brain, heart, muscle tissue, and so on. People should do it. Office chairs,...
George, not sure I get your drift here. But just to make a point clear: We're not worrying about Mars. We're doing asteroid mining. In order to be able to do...
My point is that someone that's lived in micro G for a long time has to be physically prepared for any movement into a gravity unit or well. Suddenly forcing a...
Correct George. However, present medical research seems to suggest that after long enough duration in zero-G bone damage is irretrievable and bone cannot build...
One of the things we are working on here is ways to give the workers enough gravity when not in the zero G work area so they are never adjust fully to that,...
This does have possibilities, Ueli, as we know the Bigelow concept is valid. It seems to be a matter of how it is approached in this particular case. The basic...
Muscles recover reasonably well. The Bones do regain some of their strength but even after years on Earth their bones look to x rays as if they are decades...
Like UC Irvine's space cycle? http://spacecycle.hs.uci.edu/ It was in fact designed as space flight hardware so astronauts can ride it for brief periods to...
I see no real indications that this will work any better than many other sources of exercise; it just adds a very short radius spin. I have seen a few attempts...
Sounds crazy but, brain-wise, spinning kids actually helps their grades. With muscles, when rats were spun thrice earth's gravity, they came out more muscular...
Our Own Worlds Colonizing Mars or earth's moon are challenging goals but they distract us from any good focus on asteroid/comet mining, building our own worlds...
Space stations, Yes, but do NOT need more ISS¢s. It is not what we need. We need a living area that protects the workers from micro gravity problems, enough...
Add also this concern about ISS: It has a absolutely uselss orbital inclination for what we need. We need a station orbiting exactly on the equator, because...
Look guys, I think the verdict on the gee is clear: We plan for 1 gee for the crew for as permanently as possible. Right? We'll reconsider as soon as we get...
Jim, you're bringing in an interesting line of argument for gee on the station: Costs with crew-changes. Right on! Noted. Ueli ... enough gravity when not in...
Jim, ... habitat. Why rent when we should have an air tight garage, and or our own habitat. We can have both by just launching and then inflating them? ..... ...
Another thing Jim, ... can be added later if we decide. I think we do. First of all we need that rack to keep stuff together in orbit. I even believe that the...
The big difference between ours and Bigelow¢s is that ours must be OK in gravity. This means it must have hard floors. It should work find in micro gravity....
Let me make a first go at this sequence...... Phase 1: Tug operations 11. Launch small tug with enough water to pick up a first refuelling. 12. Launch water...
Jim, Oh I see, you meant Bigelow habs as an alternative to our habitats on the ends of our rotor? Yes you're right, that wouldn't work, no way. But my...
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