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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
Topic ID: 11
Message ID: 10
#10, RE: Wait... what?
Posted by Sofaspud on Jun-06-06 at 01:03 PM
In response to message #8
Oh duh. I forgot about the scale of this thing (again).

Heck, why bother with attaching the psuedocontinent to the sphere at all? There's enough space inside the sphere to let the continent orbit freely, with miniscule corrections as necessary. If set up correctly, it may even be inherently stable (like the Lagrange points).

The only issue I have is gravity. I dunno how much trust I would place in artificial gravity generators, and without knowing a bit more about the material used to construct the shell (and presumably, the 'bedrock' of the continent), I can't do the math to figure out how much of that is needed to produce a Earth-like gravitational field.

Heh. Theoretical engineering is fun.

--sofaspud
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