XPost: rec.arts.sf.science, sci.space.policy   
   From: fmccall@earthlink.net   
      
   Mark Fergerson  wrote:   
      
   :WLM wrote:   
   :> I'm wondering if this idea has occurred anywhere else:   
   :>   
   :> 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.   
   :   
   :   Yes, this idea has been used, but my memory is too fuzzy for a clear   
   :cite.   
   :   
   :   ISTR it involved the crew of a ship being kidnapped and put into such   
   :a gizmo on a (our?) moon, but the idea was to convince them they were   
   :being detained on a planet (Earth?), so that Secret Information could be   
   :gotten out of them non-destructively. IASTR it involved Soviets and   
   :Americans.   
      
   I believe the idea was that they were supposed to believe they were on   
   a large rotating station but were actually being held ON EARTH   
   (assuming it's the book I recall).   
      
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   "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable   
    man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,   
    all progress depends on the unreasonable man."   
                                         --George Bernard Shaw   
      
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