Me, Iain,
I think that if you have artificial gravity you can get by with much
lower
tech in respect of everything else that you do.
I don't understand what you mean by that.
OK, well obviously I'm only talking about what sounds plausible in a story. But the idea is that you can imitate a more earth-like environment, so you don't have to invent technological fixes for helping people overcome non-earthlikeness. An example would be that you can have ordinary windows that look out at a static view, instead of having to invent the kind of static-projection system that Harriet mentioned.
Or you could keep atmosphere cooped around an asteroid, like in 'the little prince', and even make it pop around where you want, which is a very low-tech sort of space ship, with chickens living on it or whatever.
Alison
In message 002401c125c4$15cf2800$ca8edec2@pre-installedco, Alison Page alison@alisonpage.demon.co.uk writes
Or you could keep atmosphere cooped around an asteroid, like in 'the little prince'
Or indeed in another piece of written work somewhat more on-topic for this list... Unfortunately there was no sign that the author understood that artificial gravity was required to achieve the effect he described.
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