On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 6:59 PM <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

The solution to that, if you are a spacer, is to have a life support system on your air raft that you can use via a bypass valve on your suit.

Perhaps.

But the miniscule interplanetary acceleration of which the old style air/raft would be capable - assuming my supposition is correct about it needing substantial felt gravity to effectively function - means that you are effectively reduced to real world scale acceleration. By which I mean, a very tiny fraction of a full G. At those levels, it would take months or years to get anywhere else except to (possibly) a nearby moon.

I don't think an old style air/raft could lift off the ground with enough LS capacity for even one person, for a journey of such length.

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