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   From: alcore@uurth.com   
      
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   On 9 Feb 2005, WLM wrote:   
      
   >I'm wondering if this idea has occurred anywhere else:   
      
   In concept:  Yes.   
      
   >If humans need a full one Earth gravity after all, a lunar   
   >settlement could provide that, at least part of the time.  Build a   
   >circular track on the surface, with a radius of 1 km. and tilted.   
   >Then have cars travel around the track at the appropriate speed, and   
   >one has full Earth gravity on the Moon.   
      
   I've long thought that it would be interesting to build such a structure   
   here on Earth and run it to produce 1.5 or 2 G.  Call it the "High Gravity   
   Hotel"...   
      
   Can you imagine the sort of Olympic training you could do in such a   
   facility?   
      
   It's really no different than the idea of training at high altitude to   
   increase stamina.  At the High Grav Hotel, you train to increase overall   
   strength and reduce reaction time.   
      
   As for air resistence, I think friction from the support bearings is *far*   
   more likely to be the dominant factor if it's built in an environmentally   
   controlled space (like under a dome).  The idea of superconductive maglev   
   bearings is interesting.   
      
   I always imagined a single large donught or pyramidally shaped building   
   rather than separate cars though.  The central hub (or top of the pyramid)   
   would contain all the transfer mechanisms for getting into and out of the   
   the rotating structure for people and provisions.   
      
   Alcore   
      
      
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