What are our options for creating gravity on orbital stations in the near future?
Spinning shit seems to be the easiest way... If not the only way.
Is the doughnut nt the optimal shape for this?
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Dylan Stewart
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Xavier Kelly
Seems like a bad idea, we should just pump money into Musk's pocket and see what he comes with.
Connor White
why would it be a bad idea? its the only way (other than linear accelaration) to have perceived gravity on a spacecraft
Isaac Stewart
The best option is obviously to design a spacecraft that has the mass of a planet.
Propulsion might be a bit tough, though.
Cooper Parker
I guess in the year 3000 we fly the earth around the Universe
Jace Russell
Gravity tractor.
Build a 1G planet, then use 2G worth of ion-jet satellites to tow it around.
Jaxson Cox
Works fine on paper, problem is that humans actually get pretty fucked up if they stay in a rapidly rotating frame for too long. For astronauts to be able to live and work under this kind of artificial gravity, the radius of the bar/ring/whatever needs to be large enough that you can get away with rotating at like 1-2 rpm.
Getting anything comparable to 1 G would require stations hundreds of meters across.
Landon Johnson
Perhaps a 5,429,091 kiloliters of neutron star material? Delta V will still be a bitch if you want to change trajectory. It'd be close to 1g I think. lol
Size wouldn't be a problem. You can easily build a 1km wide hoop space ship with modern technology and maintain it in either solar orbit or Earth orbit. Of course it'd be expense and who wants to do anything expensive?
Nathaniel Baker
>You can easily build a 1km wide hoop space ship with modern technology
It took us $150 billion and 14 years to assemble a station with roughly the same pressurized volume as a passenger jet.
Bentley Kelly
It amuses me that von Braun was pushing spoked wheel space stations in Colliers and on Disney n the 1950s, and that is STILL the ideal...