[TML] A new tourist ship design

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Subject: [TML] A new tourist ship design

I was thinking last night about taking a sphere of say 500 meters in
diameter and coating the outside with 1G gravity plates. Then turn
them on and spill a lot of atmosphere on the ball. Could people then,
in space, walk on this ball? Would it be safe? Would it hold the
atmosphere? Would it be nice to sit on the ball and look at the sky?
Does this work within Traveller rules?
Douglas E Knapp
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[joel]
I figure you'd need something like a magnetosphere of Earth in the Tourist
Ship, to deflect radiation.
I guess if you have the tech to build the Sphere, then the radiation shield
shouldn't be a problem.