--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Victor Smith" wrote:
> We'll call it micro-gravity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit
"A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level."
> but as far as the Human organism is concerned, the subjective experience is weightlessness.
It would be, at the top of a 22,236-mile-high building on the equator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit
"A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level."
However, we were talking about the top of a building only 8,000 miles above sea level.
> So what's your beef with weightlessness?
Why don't people experience weightlessness at the top of the Volcn Cayambe (summit 5,790 meters (18,996 ft; 3.6 miles)) in Ecuador, very near the equator? Could it be that even that elevation isn't high enough -- and that the elevation actually necessary is 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit
"A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level."
Ok, hitman, if I reach earth orbit, low, medium or high if I want to stay there, I have to attain then maintain a certain forward momentum. As long as I maintain or increase that momentum (which will subjectively feel as though I am standing still), I will experience microgravity or weightlessness- I will float, I will not fall toward the earth, I can forget Im floating in the middle of a chamber, and fall asleep. And when I woke up Id still be floating. Now you can sit there and argue semantics til the cows come in, sonny, but Im not buyin into it. Unless you face the opposite direction of your momentum, and purposely accelerated in opposition to the plane of movement in the opposite direction you are orbiting, in essence, purposely slowing your momentum, you will not slow down or fall. As you slow your momentum, or accelerate in opposition to the to the direction of orbit, you will slow, and therefore place yourself in a decaying or landing orbit, your speed slows, and gravity will begin to exert a downward pressure which we call gravity. The opposite happens if while in orbit, speed is added to the momentum or the orbital speed of the craft, it will begin to fall outward from the planet with less and less influence from gravity as speed increases and proximity decreases. Once you stop accelerating, you will go into continuous free fall as it falls away from Earth, and everyone would float.
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 5:49 AM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spacesettlers] Micro-gravity in Ecuador (was Re: 8,000 miles is below the GEO altitude)
--- In mailto:spacesettlers%40yahoogroups.com, "Victor Smith" wrote:
> We'll call it micro-gravity
It doesn't matter what you call it. You're still wrong. One can't experience micro-gravity on Earth at the top of an 8,000 mile high building, or anywhere in-between there and sea-level, because 8,000 miles is below the GEO altitude of 22,236 miles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit
"A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level."
> but as far as the Human organism is concerned, the subjective experience is weightlessness.
It would be, at the top of a 22,236-mile-high building on the equator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit
"A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level."
However, we were talking about the top of a building only 8,000 miles above sea level.
> So what's your beef with weightlessness?
Why don't people experience weightlessness at the top of the Volcn Cayambe (summit 5,790 meters (18,996 ft; 3.6 miles)) in Ecuador, very near the equator? Could it be that even that elevation isn't high enough -- and that the elevation actually necessary is 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit
"A satellite in such an orbit is at an altitude of approximately 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above mean sea level."