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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OnToMars: [QB] Jernau, I'm well aware of the rest of the thread. And Sol was specifically thinking of O'Neil colonies. I neglected to spceifically address your asteroid comments to focus on refuting Sol's claim. However; [QUOTE] under normal terrestrial conditions i.e. with gravity [/QUOTE] On an asteroid? In space? First of all, to get one suitable you'd have to go beyond Mars in the first place, and an operation as complex as changing the orbit of an asteroid WOULD require people - at least at our level of technology anyway. And again, why would you go so far as to build a world from scratch (or with an asteroid, 90% or so from scratch) when there is a world in which you can set up one piece of machinery and create your fuel, air, and water from it. It's called the Sabatier reaction, and is 19th century industrial chemistry. And how much energy do you think it would take, not only to make an asteroid into some semblance of habitable, but to spin it at such a rate that it produced a 1G environment? A lot. An experiment has been run - as a preliminary to a further experiment - testing the ability of mice to live and reproduce at 25 rpms. This experiment was done to make sure the Coriolis Force wouldn't be an obstacle in the successful execution of the [URL=http://www.marssociety.org/bulletins/08.28.01.translife.html]Translife Project[/URL], which will test the ability of mice to live and reproduce in an artificial gravity enivronment (and with any luck, I will be a part of). If successful, it will show the validity of artificial gravity as a means of combating the negative effects of zero g in space travel but it will also empirically show (though I haven't heard any scientist dispute the claim yet) that animals and people can live just fine in .38G. Then there's the day/night cycle. 24 hours and 40 minutes on Mars. How long on your asteroid? Well, I'm sure the massive fusion strip lights that have yet to be invented can be programmed for whatever cycle you want. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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