The need to conserve

From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert

> the only way something like this would have a chance of working
> is if their non rotational sections were connected via some sort
> of transport system. then when you sent a certain mass one way,
> the same size mass would go the other way.

Actually, there'd be no need for a same-size counterbalancing mass. The
vehicle would be decelerated by the same amount at its destination as it
would have been accelerated from its origin. As long as the vehicle
never left the structure, the momentum of the overall structure would
remain unchanged.

Regards,

Mike Combs