A thread of 3 messages, 30 October 1991 to 1 November 1991, in the order they were sent.
How far does the artificial gravity generated by a grav plate work? I mean, if it extends as far as normal gravity, you've got a potential terrorist weapon against an entire planet: Give up or we'll turn on a large anti-gravity field and blow your entire atmosphere into space. - -- John H. Kim [email removed] [email removed]
This was an interesting problem I had to deal with in the game I was writing. I assume that in Traveller, antigrav is inverse-squared, like regular gravity. This is OK, because you can't build an efficient grav system for more than one gee for any significant mass. For my game, where wormholes were used for star travel, you could swallow a star system with such a device. metlay
> This was an interesting problem I had to deal with in the game I was writing. > I assume that in Traveller, antigrav is inverse-squared, like regular > gravity. I agree that that is the logical answer, but I remember either the Starship OpMan or Grand Survey claiming that artificial grav inside a ship falls off *faster* than normal gravitation. Ignoring the possibility that this is the result of some 'blackbox doubletalk' the best explanation (IMHO) is that starship hulls are grav-shielded similarly to densitometers to keep the artificial grav inside them to prevent it from messing up the environment. > metlay - -bertil- - -- "It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file."