On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

Thing is, inertial damping and artificial gravity, which are also canon in the LBB’s are essentially just that: attractive gravity control.

Agree about artificial gravity.

But inertial damping could be "pusher" fields just as easily as it could be "puller" fields. In "actuality," it's probably both, in order to lower the stress on what's being manipulated, by spreading the forces involved out among as many vectors as possible.

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