Xref: utzoo sci.physics:6804 sci.research:871 sci.space:10513
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!cisunx!jcbst3
From: jcbst3@cisunx.UUCP (James C. Benz)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.research,sci.space
Subject: Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications?
Message-ID: <17272@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:34:10 GMT
References: <290@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <1098@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <296@v7fs1.UUCP> <5849@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> <1989Mar26.003753.11770@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (James C. Benz)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
Lines: 17

In article <1989Mar26.003753.11770@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Nonsense.  Supplying artificial gravity using centrifugal force is no big
>deal, although getting the radius long enough to avoid inner-ear problems
>is certainly a nuisance.  People have designed current-technology Mars
>missions which have artificial gravity.

Well, if you are going to assume *lots* of relatively free fusion energy,
why not just accelerate at 1G or some appreciable fraction thereof, until 
you are halfway there, then turn around and decelerate at the same rate?
Voila.  Artificial gravity with no inner ear problems. And no coriolis.
Just a brief period of 0G at turnaround.  An old Sci-Fi trick that still
works.  If going to the outer planets or the asteroid belt, trip times of
a few weeks or months sound about right.
-- 
Jim Benz 		     jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu     If a modem 
University of Pittsburgh					 answers,
UCIR			     (412) 648-5930			 hang up!