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From: LP12
music's v obtrusive though and a heck of a racket. I've never thought of it as being dangerous, cert not as bad as serious rock climbing, but I suppose one false move at low altitude and you get into a tumble spin with no time to correct. Still, as long as it all goes well it looks completely safe, cert they make it look easy. Interesting about 1g acceleration though. Any mission to the stars they're talking about constant 1g acceleration as being one option, then ship turns round half way and 1 g decelleration, so you have permanent gravity on the ship. We can see that 1g acceleration is very fast!! although for stellar distances all is relative and would still take bleeding years to get anywhere. 1 g acceleration in a vacum = 9 meters at the end of the first second of freefall, 58 seconds later you'll cover 578 meters in one second After one hour at this acceleration you'll be covering 35,000 meters in one second. (20 miles a second!!!) 24 hours after you began to accelerate you'd be covering at 847,000 meters a second!! After a week of 1g acceleration, say you jumped off the platform last saturday morning, you'd now be travelling at 5,931,000 m/p/s. Which is 3,683 miles a second. After one week of freefall in a vacum you'd cover New York to LA in one second, and also be well on the way to hawaii. In ONE SECOND! It would appear as 'time travel'. as if you were time travelling., a time traveller. (which we are anyway, but you'd just be doing some serios distances in an extraordinary short space of time.) .. for free, with no fuel. YOu'd just need to suspend an object with an earth like mass somewhere in front of you and also make it move where you wanted it to. ONe way to do this would be to crush material to a state similar to that found in neutron stars, then mearly harness the obnject and direct it to go where you 'needed to fall to'. This could be done with some kind of wifi app approach, involving magnets and old TV electron guns. The physical size of the mass would not need to be large to duplicate 1G. I estimate about the size of a 1970s space hopper, which would be appropriate, given the name. https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall

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