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Re: Speculation on water loss
Posted By: Plastic ChickenDate: 9/25/03 10:43 p.m.

In Response To: Speculation on water loss (Grady)

: What does this mean for Halo? Depending on how it gets its gravity
: (artificial gravity seems likely to me, but I don't know if there's any
: conclusive evidence either way)

How Halo gets its gravity is very simple (and fundamental): It's a ring, and it rotates. The centrifugal force creates gravity. That's why it's a ring in the first place, and that's why the ecological part of the ring is on the inside, not the outside, of the ring. The outside of the ring has negative gravity.

If humankind ever makes a self-sustaining space station with an ecosystem, do you know what shape it'll be in? Yep, a ring. Rotating it would then produce gravity and distribute heat (whereas heat on earth is very ambient, heat in space (near a star like the sun) is much more direction, rotating a ship in space is a lot like rotating a marshmellow over a fire).

What would that have to do with hydrogen escaping? I'd consider it unlikely, because where on a planet if a hydrogen molecule escapes it might rocket away into orbit (speculation), on halo it'd just fly across to the other side...or it could miss (which might be more likely)...anyway, I don't think the process would happen fast enough to cause the water to drop significantly over any short period of time. Or long period of time, for that matter.

Ok, that's the rant for now.

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Replies:

Speculation on water lossGrady 9/25/03 1:29 a.m.
     Re: Speculation on water lossInfininja 9/25/03 3:58 p.m.
           Re: Speculation on water lossGrady 9/25/03 4:59 p.m.
                 Re: Speculation on water lossInfininja 9/25/03 5:55 p.m.
                       Re: Speculation on water lossAlianAnt 9/25/03 6:05 p.m.
                             Re: Speculation on water lossInfininja 9/25/03 6:12 p.m.
                                   Re: Speculation on water lossGrady 9/25/03 10:14 p.m.
                 Re: Speculation on water lossViscily II 9/29/03 6:54 p.m.
     Re: Speculation on water lossMicahst 9/25/03 8:56 p.m.
           Re: Speculation on water lossMicahst 9/25/03 9:02 p.m.
     Re: Speculation on water lossPlastic Chicken 9/25/03 10:43 p.m.
           Re: Speculation on water lossPlastic Chicken 9/25/03 10:46 p.m.
                 Re: Speculation on water lossInfininja 9/25/03 10:54 p.m.
                       Re: Speculation on water lossPlastic Chicken 9/27/03 10:01 p.m.
           Re: Speculation on water lossGrady 9/26/03 12:16 a.m.
                 Re: Speculation on water lossGrady 9/26/03 2:09 a.m.
                       Re: Speculation on water lossInfininja 9/26/03 7:19 a.m.
                             Re: Speculation on water lossGrady 9/26/03 12:12 p.m.
                                   Re: Speculation on water lossInfininja 9/26/03 1:21 p.m.
                       Re: Speculation on water lossPlastic Chicken 9/28/03 1:25 a.m.
                             I meant m/s/s *NM* *NM*Plastic Chicken 9/28/03 2:06 a.m.
     Re: Speculation on water lossDwain 9/29/03 7:37 a.m.
           Re: Flood alter the atmosphere?Wado SG 9/29/03 1:21 p.m.



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