Paul Birch's supramundane worlds

sailorbarsoom@... [spacesettlers] wrote:

> The floaty thing has been suggested for Venus, where you'd have
> something like 0.9 G or so.

Right, though not usually connected into a single (flexible and floaty)
structure that encloses the globe.

But check it out:

Earth: 9.8 m/s^2 surface gravity
Saturn: 10.4 m/s^2
Uranus: 8.7 m/s^2
Neptune: 11.1 m/s^2

All the gas giants, except for Jupiter (25 m/s^2), have very close to 1G
gravity. Uranus is a bit light, and the others are a little heavy...
but of course that's going to vary with altitude. So there's a chance
it would work out just right.

Even if the floating altitude didn't change the G level much, Saturn's
only 6% heavy anyway, so I suspect you'd get used to it and just grow up
stronger than the puny Earthlings. And Uranus would be quite comfy,
just a hair lighter than Venus.

Neptune is 13% heavier though, which is probably too much. (At least
while we're in squishy biological form.)

Still not sure why you'd want to live at the bottom of a gravity well,
but if you do, it's comforting that there are several good places to do
it, right within our home solar system!