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Subject: If you were really on a halo ring...

Wouldn't you always be walking uphill? If you think about it then yes, but the forerunners did some amazing stuff...

  • 09.02.2011 6:06 PM PDT

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  • 09.02.2011 6:06 PM PDT

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On average, yes, you would be walking up hill (ignoring seas and water bodies, of course).

But this is skewed, as gravity is outward. It's just the reverse on Earth. The Earth is curved, so you could make the argument that you would always be going down hill, but my aching thighs after my bike ride home from classes would attest to something different.

  • 09.02.2011 6:13 PM PDT

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On Earth, wouldn't we always be walking downhill?

  • 09.02.2011 6:16 PM PDT

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  • 09.02.2011 7:53 PM PDT
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If you build a habitable Ring and spin it in space at a certain velocity you can generate gravity . . . to be honest i am curious why nasa and such like do not make a ring space station, easy to build and a lot safer for astronauts.

  • 09.03.2011 1:11 AM PDT

halo reach for the win, unlike most halo players they dont know the history of the halo's and the spartans, i do hahaha ive read the books.

they have their own grVITY FEILD

  • 09.03.2011 3:16 AM PDT

Posted by: yohobobo
they have their own grVITY FEILD


Apparently you've never heard of this little thing called 'centrifugal force'.

  • 09.03.2011 3:28 AM PDT
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  • 09.03.2011 6:01 AM PDT

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  • 09.03.2011 9:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: w0ppitola
to be honest i am curious why nasa and such like do not make a ring space station, easy to build and a lot safer for astronauts.


You realise that in order to build the Halos, the Forerunners had to strip mine an entire planet and have very large Sentinels construct the structure?

  • 09.03.2011 9:36 AM PDT

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Posted by: w0ppitola
to be honest i am curious why nasa and such like do not make a ring space station, easy to build and a lot safer for astronauts.


You realize that in order to build the Halos, the Forerunners had to strip mine an entire planet and have very large Sentinels construct the structure?


I think he means on a much smaller scale. Kinda like... the space station in Ender's Game?

  • 09.03.2011 9:37 AM PDT

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Isnt gravity an amazing thing?

  • 09.03.2011 9:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: w0ppitola
If you build a habitable Ring and spin it in space at a certain velocity you can generate gravity . . .


Tisk, kids these days, don't know their gravitational acceleration from their rotating frame of reference...

That could get ya killed you know!

Under very obscure circumstances... granted.... but...


to be honest i am curious why nasa and such like do not make a ring space station, easy to build and a lot safer for astronauts.

It would be very hard to build.

The ISS is built the way it is in those little sections because that's the largest bit we could get to fit in the payload bay of a Shuttle. And they aren't flying those anymore.



Edit:
*realises he ignored the OP's question*

Ooops...

Ignoring local hills and stuff it would always seem as if you are walking on a flat plane, but you would see it rise up infront of you, arch over your head, and come down behind.
It would be level as far as you are concerned though.

[Edited on 09.03.2011 9:49 AM PDT]

  • 09.03.2011 9:41 AM PDT

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On average, yes, you would be walking up hill (ignoring seas and water bodies, of course).

But this is skewed, as gravity is outward. It's just the reverse on Earth. The Earth is curved, so you could make the argument that you would always be going down hill, but my aching thighs after my bike ride home from classes would attest to something different.

  • 09.03.2011 9:56 AM PDT
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You realise that in order to build the Halos, the Forerunners had to strip mine an entire planet and have very large Sentinels construct the structure?


Yes i ment on a much smaller scale. and to add, it would not be that difficult to put a small ring in orbit. With the new nanofibres, polymers and carbon composites its entirely possible to take the raw materials into orbit on to the iss that would have the right module to build and construct sections over time. Its possible. However very expensive at the moment in time.

  • 09.03.2011 11:01 AM PDT

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Posted by: w0ppitola
You realise that in order to build the Halos, the Forerunners had to strip mine an entire planet and have very large Sentinels construct the structure?


Yes i ment on a much smaller scale. and to add, it would not be that difficult to put a small ring in orbit. With the new nanofibres, polymers and carbon composites its entirely possible to take the raw materials into orbit on to the iss that would have the right module to build and construct sections over time. Its possible. However very expensive at the moment in time.

You would need a -blam!- strong ass metal for that

  • 09.03.2011 11:07 AM PDT

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  • 09.03.2011 11:11 AM PDT
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Indeed ferrrari, or a very strong composite, we are getting there as a race in the field of composites its only a matter of time,

i'm a welder by trade so i am used to metal of varying types, however i have seen some composite stuff (cannot remember what it was now) but it was stronger then titanium, lighter and flexible too, black in colour more like a fabric then a metal. it was awesome.

. . . as i said a habitable ring (not a big one, think Arthur C clarkes ring in 2001) Is possible, i am 29 now and i reckon there will be one before i snuff it, supposing the world dont end.

Oh and the research into orbital elevators is coming on too. Again, using composites.

chances are first would come the orbital elevator then the centrifugal Space station.

  • 09.03.2011 11:35 AM PDT

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I feel like the terrain you are walking on is the only thing that matters.

  • 09.03.2011 11:46 AM PDT

if i was on a halo ring i would probaly fall off
lol

  • 09.03.2011 1:40 PM PDT

meh...


Posted by: w0ppitola
If you build a habitable Ring and spin it in space at a certain velocity you can generate gravity . . . to be honest i am curious why nasa and such like do not make a ring space station, easy to build and a lot safer for astronauts.


exactly, centrifugal force is how the ring has gravity.

  • 09.03.2011 1:45 PM PDT

If you think that the forerunners couldn't create artificial gravity, never mind walking uphill, wouldn't everyone fall to the middle of the ring? Where is the centre of gravity on a giant ring if you're on the inside?

Also, Halo is too large for there to be any real gradient, so it is only the tiniest amount uphill, not enough to make any sort of difference.

  • 09.03.2011 3:10 PM PDT

Also, what happens if you jump over the edge of the ring?

  • 09.03.2011 3:10 PM PDT

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A Halo ring is has a diameter of 10 000km, according to this image. Earth's diameter at the equator is 12 753km.

Are you always walking downhill on Earth? No, because gravity doesn't work that way.

  • 09.03.2011 3:19 PM PDT

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