Blizball: Approaching Reality

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I was watching TV and a program was on about something called Zero Gravity Sports. There was a computer generated simulation of what football will look like without gravity, giving the game a two-dimensional feel, not just an X axis, but a Y. This makes so many more variables possible, and the display was so akin to Blitzball, I decided to see if there's a website. Here is what I found... And for some reason, there's typos. :ness:

Article Excerpt
 Stadium
The stadium will have a surface area of some 19,000 sq m and a volume of some 230,000 cubic meters. Thus with a wall thickness of some 7.5 - 12.5 mm of aluminium the mass will be of the order of 400 - 700 tons, and the mass of air contained some 250 tons. Thus, if we assume an additional 1000 tons of fittittgs the total mass of the stadium will be sonte 1650 - 1950 tons. This will have a launch cost of some $330- 390,000,000. If we follow the "rule of thumb" that the manufacturing and assembly cost will be roughly equal to the launch cost, the resulting cost of some $400 million is equivalent to the cost of the most advanced office buildings today, which are much more complex than a hollow container built from a large number of similar units. The total cost of the stadium is therefore taken as some $800 million.
In round figures, in order to be commercially viable such a structure must earn profits of some $80 million per year. If we assume additional operating and maintenance costs of $80 million per year, then the required weekly income is some $3 million. If 1500 people used the stadium each week, the cost would be some $2000 per person This would be a significant additional cost compared to a flight cost of some $10,000, but would probably be acceptable to some in view of the wide range of entertaining possibilities in a stadium, both as spectators and as participants in zero G sports.
These calculations suggest that accomodation in orbit is likely to cost less per guest than the flight cost. Trying to predict the actual ratio between flight cost and stay cost is an interesting challenge for business economics
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I also would like to point out this diagram-like image that struck me.
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The article speaks of open stadiums, and spherical swimming pools with zero gravity properties. With this, and the mechanics of Soccer, we could easily spawn Blitzball. If sports fans don't do it, Square Enix fans sure as hell will! :awesome:


ARTICLE http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/zero_gravity_sports_centers.shtml
 
that just sounds like an out of reach dream to me, like crazy ppl at work:gasp:
 
I know. When I think about it, it sounds like too much water pressure to be able to move quickly at all, and just kicking a ball far enough to make someone chase after it sounds almost impossible under water, granted the ball will have to be dense enough to not float, but not sink, and aerodynamic enough to cut through water when it's kicked. But you'd have to have some strong freakin legs I think, but then again... With no gravity to weigh down the water, would the density be as cumbersome?
 
What's the point in having water when you have zero G? In FFX the water was only needed so that the players could move in every direction, but when you can already move in every direction with no gravity, water is not needed. Plus, if you did use water, each player would need some kind of air tank, or they'd all drown. Especially after being tackled. There's no way people could hold their breath for that long. <_<
 
As long as you can add poison to your opponents, I'm cool with it.
 
@ Addle
That makes sense too, not that the developers of this thing are taking that into account. >_> Maybe they plan on make it another endurance sport? But yeah, players do need their air. 8F But yeah... damn real Blitzball, either zero gravity, water, or both would be something even non-sports fans such as myself would enjoy watching. And if you get pushed out of the anti-gravity thing you're like, benched or something. You'd probably land on a net or something... I wouldn't know.
 
its techincally impossable anyways, as in proven theory, something cannot exist in zero gravity.

reason being, everything in this universe that has mass also has some sort of gravitational pull. with that in mind, players would be slightly pulled to the wall

also, if it was filled with just air, players would not be able to re-direct themselves, they would kick off the wall and just float to the other wall, as air is not dense enough to simply tread and move in, and if it was water, well nobody could breathe

and even in air ppl would eventually need to brigh in mor oxygen, as we would use it all up, and the heavy breathing of atheletes would make it go faster, and shouting of fans to also speed it along...

simply impossable as far as i can see
 
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I wouldn't say impossible, otherwise physicists and scientists, engineers, and inventors wouldn't be working on such a massive, costly project, imho. I'm sure their theories are backed by test results, computers simulations, models, and actual math that they've applied. I mean there's cars and tools that are made to work a certain way on a computer before they apply it to their machines to create it in reality. It saves time and costs. I can't let myself doubt the possibility of the project coming to fruition due to some skeptic path I can follow. Just saying, that applies to me at least.
 
well im not pressing my beliefs, just voicing my opinion

and it would be close to zero gravity, now that i think about it, but not quite there

and i am sticking with my beliefs...
 
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