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Gravity Balloons
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I had overlooked Orion's Arm. Although I knew of it from the self-gravitating ring concept, I never found any direct precedents for what I wrote about in the blog, but the Ederworld page really did have that. It's a derivative concept of a gravity balloon. However, the originator of that idea calls them Bubbleworlds, and that threw me off. I'm still interested in finding information on that Bubbleworld concept, but it's a real moving target. Going by the article, it seems that any gravity balloon might be called an Ederworld. I don't know what the scope of that word is. I like to call them gravity balloons, because there's no ambiguity about that definition. A gravity balloon might not be a human habitat, it's just... a balloon-ish thing. I would particularly like to know if Eder's Bubbleworld concept had entertained the idea of using asteroids, and anything else about it.

Using flow dividers to get artificial gravity to work is the real central concept of what I've written. Maybe we could put up an article about this on Orion's Arm? The gravity balloon concept itself has been around for a while, but the flow dividers are (IMHO) what makes it potentially useful in a "The High Frontier" kind of way. The tech level doesn't even come close to other concepts that do the same thing unless you're at a really small scale, like Kalpana One, which is for 3,000. Right around that point, you really have to start to wonder if the trip and the isolation might be worth it to save such an insane amount of industrial resources.

And Blogger just outright tells you traffic sources, so you have no one to blame but yourself.
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Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 12-08-2013, 08:36 PM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 12-15-2013, 05:49 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by ai_vin - 12-15-2013, 07:25 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by ai_vin - 12-15-2013, 07:27 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 12-15-2013, 07:54 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by AlanSE - 12-19-2013, 07:15 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 12-21-2013, 06:19 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by JohnnyYesterday - 12-21-2013, 05:53 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by Cray - 03-06-2014, 11:18 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by AlanSE - 05-24-2014, 04:14 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 03-06-2014, 05:49 PM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by Cray - 03-07-2014, 12:13 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by AlanSE - 05-24-2014, 04:30 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 03-07-2014, 02:47 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by Cray - 03-07-2014, 03:24 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 11-19-2014, 01:18 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by Drashner1 - 11-19-2014, 02:09 PM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 11-19-2014, 05:54 PM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 11-19-2014, 07:31 PM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 12-31-2014, 04:32 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by AlanSE - 03-25-2015, 04:01 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 03-25-2015, 05:42 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 03-27-2015, 07:24 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by sandcastles - 07-02-2016, 11:06 AM
RE: Gravity Balloons - by stevebowers - 07-03-2016, 07:15 AM

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