Space Settlement the Easy Way

> On Jul 8, 2015, at 7:41 PM, sailorbarsoom@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
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> As has been pointed out before:
> we know a whole lot about living at 1G;
> we know quite a bit about living at zero G;
> we know almost nothing about living at anything greater than zero and less than one;
> we know utterly nothing, nothing at all, about living at one G but cycling often between that, low G, and zero G.
>
Yes, but we do have lots of data for a pretty good analogue. Bed rest is physiologically pretty close to being in micro-g, particularly if you are a little head down. In fact, a lot of ground research is done using bed rest and the results transfer fairly well.

So, since we all sleep at least a few hours a night, there is reason to believe that going back and forth between 1 and 0 g wont be a big problem.

I suspect that in not-too-long space hotels will rotate at a low level to provide enough artificial gravity to make using the toilet reasonable easy (using a micro-g toilet requires quite a bit of training). Then it will be easy to get some data at (probably low) partial g.

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> And it's about time we started studying those things. Let's see what sort of rotating space station could do that, with say twenty people aboard at any one time.I'm thinking a dumbbell design, but with "bells" at several levels along the "bar." In fact, it might be a good test of High Frontier at small sizes.
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sailorbarsoom@...
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> wrote:
As has been pointed out before:
we know a whole lot about living at 1G;
we know quite a bit about living at zero G;
we know almost nothing about living at anything greater than zero and less than one;
we know utterly nothing, nothing at all, about living at one G but cycling often between that, low G, and zero G.
Yes, but we do have lots of data for a pretty good analogue. Bed rest is physiologically pretty close to being in micro-g, particularly if you are a little head down. In fact, a lot of ground research is done using bed rest and the results transfer fairly well.
So, since we all sleep at least a few hours a night, there is reason to believe that going back and forth between 1 and 0 g wont be a big problem.
I suspect that in not-too-long space hotels will rotate at a low level to provide enough artificial gravity to make using the toilet reasonable easy (using a micro-g toilet requires quite a bit of training). Then it will be easy to get some data at (probably low) partial g.
And it's about time we started studying those things. Let's see what sort of rotating space station could do that, with say twenty people aboard at any one time.I'm thinking a dumbbell design, but with "bells" at several levels along the "bar." In fact, it might be a good test of High Frontier at small sizes.