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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: LNLL Inflatable Stations
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Date: 15 Nov 90 03:25:38 GMT
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In article <1250@iceman.jcu.oz> eempa@iceman.jcu.oz (M Parigi) writes:
>	I don't know about you, but if I were an astronaut doing an EVA to fix
>a section of the rotating platform (from damage by space flotsam) and had to
>get out to the 1 g region, I would first have to spin my body, climb down
>the rotating station hanging on to it for dear life, with the whole universe
>and earth rotating at 4 times per second above your head, with an uncomfortable
>suit on, I certainly wouldn't be in any mood to do any work! I think if the
>kevlar shell did get damaged, the only way to get a human on the outside of
>the spinning section would be to have it despun!
>	Have you thought about this, Allen?

...For a literary treatment of just such a subject, see Heinlein's short
story, "Ordeal in Space," in _The Past Through Tomorrow_. After reading
that, you wouldn't get _me_ out to the end of LLNL's spinning hot dog on
the outside...
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
         "With design like this, who needs bugs?" - Boyd Roberts