That last mile

On Friday, July 19, 2002, at 08:31 AM, mgellis2 wrote:

> Yes, but what about an ultralight (or helicopter, etc.)? I imagine
> that when you run or jump, you are still connected to the habitat in
> terms of having been moving along with it, so you'd drop back to the
> ground.

You will not drop back to the ground. You will go in a straight line --
which will intersect the surface of the colony because it's concave.

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~500 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html