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|    Mikkel Haaheim to All    |
|    Re: Rotational Momentum, Astronaut Orien    |
|    10 Jun 16 12:18:29    |
      From: mikkelhaaheim@gmail.com              Sorry, I don't know of any on line calculators off hand. For what you want, I       think you need a fairly long but narrow corridor, with a 1 m hole at one end       of the corridor. The astronaut should be closer towards the end with the hole.       This way, the hole        is large enough for a semi-explosive decompression, the length of the corridor       provides a large supply of air to push the astronaut, and to keep the       outgassing going enough for momentum to build up. The narrowness of the       corridor will allow her to block        a fair amount of that air so it is more difficult to simply blow past her       without imparting some momentum on her. The hard part will be explaining why       there is such a long stretch of corridor without sealed bulkheads.       Rough estimate: the width of the coridor should be no more than 1.5 m, and the       deck height no more than 1.8 m to 2 m. The length behind her should be at       least 100 m... Shorter if it is branches off to lateral corridors in the       section behind her, or if        the coridor opens into a large chamber... Essentially, you want to funnel'a       large volum'of air behind her, and have her act as a kind of blockage to that       funnel. You want her to be about 5 m or so from the hole, giving the air time       to act on her body.        Again, you have to explain the lack of bulkhead doors. Perhaps borrow a page       from the Titanic: no one thought anything would be able to penetrate the       extremely thick hull, so they figured that partitioning would be too costly of       an unnecessary expense.       Keep in mind, I am not doing the calculations here. This is not even back of       the envelope... But it should give you a rough idea of the kind of situation       you need.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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