Most favorite Honorverse tech

SWM wrote:

cthia wrote:Ouch! An epiphany just hit me aback the head! Why can't grav plates be utilized within the stairwells? Near zero g would make 200 floors fun! Taking 20 - 30 stairs or several floors at a time!

On a more personal note, time for a stupid college story.

I lived at the top of a five story dorm. I got very proficient at speeding down the stairs. I would lean forward and leap out, catch the railings on either side, and swing down to the landing. I could make it from the top to the bottom in ten jumps. As long as I didn't land badly and twist my ankle. Geeze, that was a stupid trick . . .

That's what made me think of the crowd of teenagers in the low-gee stairwell.

JeffEngel wrote:

cthia wrote:@Johnathan

Agreed. But knowing what all has to work together flawlessly inside, unless I'm particularly lonely wink I'd just prefer to walk. Just take a cab to the top of the bldg and walk down. Much easier.

You're trusting the cab in that case. The elevator car is basically just a cab on tracks, a cab surrounded by guard rails except in two narrow directions. If you're afraid of it, you should be at least as scared of the cab.

Ouch! An epiphany just hit me aback the head! Why can't grav plates be utilized within the stairwells? Near zero g would make 200 floors fun! Taking 20 - 30 stairs or several floors at a time!



Hmm, maybe I should even rethink that entire elevator problem.

You've still got inertia, and in microgravity, you haven't much friction to count on to keep you from accelerating right off the surfaces - at considerable velocity, ballisticly, in the direction of the next solid object. Splat. The fun, healthy, "safe" stair jog ends horribly.

cthia wrote:

JeffEngel wrote:You've still got inertia, and in microgravity, you haven't much friction to count on to keep you from accelerating right off the surfaces - at considerable velocity, ballisticly, in the direction of the next solid object. Splat. The fun, healthy, "safe" stair jog ends horribly.

No no no. Inertia wouldn't be your biggest problem, but illegal obstacles like indiscreet couples trying to join the zero-g club because the mile-high club has long become passe.

:sound of difficulty in suppressing a Harrington-like giggle:

SWM wrote:

cthia wrote:Ouch! An epiphany just hit me aback the head! Why can't grav plates be utilized within the stairwells? Near zero g would make 200 floors fun! Taking 20 - 30 stairs or several floors at a time!

On a more personal note, time for a stupid college story.

I lived at the top of a five story dorm. I got very proficient at speeding down the stairs. I would lean forward and leap out, catch the railings on either side, and swing down to the landing. I could make it from the top to the bottom in ten jumps. As long as I didn't land badly and twist my ankle. Geeze, that was a stupid trick . . .

That's what made me think of the crowd of teenagers in the low-gee stairwell.

cthia wrote:

JeffEngel wrote:You've still got inertia, and in microgravity, you haven't much friction to count on to keep you from accelerating right off the surfaces - at considerable velocity, ballisticly, in the direction of the next solid object. Splat. The fun, healthy, "safe" stair jog ends horribly.

No no no. Inertia wouldn't be your biggest problem, but illegal obstacles like indiscreet couples trying to join the zero-g club because the mile-high club has long become passe.

:sound of difficulty in suppressing a Harrington-like giggle:

JeffEngel wrote:Ya got grav plates for that in your own rooms, ya sex-crazed ninnies! Get outta our public tubes and into... your... private ones....