12-21-2013, 06:19 AM
(12-19-2013, 07:15 AM)AlanSE Wrote: 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.This sounds like an excellent idea. If moderately sized gravity balloons can be created from asteroid material, then these might be built in some or many colony systems as a way of housing a substantial population.