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The setting involves stations / settlements at all the lagrange points, orbitals around Earth, the Moon, Venus (with cloud cities) and Mars (with surface and subsurface colonies) and numerous bases and outposts in the asteroid belt. However, trips to other planets are seasonal as they aren't...

Thanks muchly. :)

I wasn't referring to the mountain as a singular object but as part of the whole Earth. Standing at the base of the mountain obviously the mass of it is to yourside and above and it's pull would drag you in that direction where as if it is below your feet then the drag is in (roughly speaking)...

Thanks. That leads to two follow ups... one I think is quick, the other not so much. 1) so gravity is (roughly) strongest at the top of the tallest mountain? Or on Earth, at the top of the atmosphere? 2) I remember reading that the smallest amount of matter that would compress into a black...

I'm a writer and I like to play in the science fiction sandbox but keep a firm grasp on what is possible. I recently started working on some notes for a setting in which we have begun to colonise the solar system. To the question at hand. The further you fall into a gravity well, the more you...