[TML] A new tourist ship design

[Tom Naro]

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com wrote:
> 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?


If you like the theory that grav-plates "pull" things towards the plate with a 1 G force,  then the idea is feasible.  I would be worried about what happens when the gravity fails.  You are quickly going to lose all of that air.  The backup systems on this sort of thing might need to be pretty good.


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