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A small centrifuge is not a viable place to have an entire colony to live in. Sure, you can stick someone in a high-g centrifuge by himself for a little while,
by gorkonsine 9y ago
A small centrifuge is not a viable place to have an entire colony to live in. Sure, you can stick someone in a high-g centrifuge by himself for a little while, but I'm talking about a habitat that people live indefinitely. Equating the two clearly shows you don't know what you're talking about.
- Retric 9y ago> having a major engineering challenge due to the existing gravity? Rotating a habitat is a hard problem in space or on a planet. But, Mars's is gravity would make the problem easier not harder. The atmosphere might be a problem, scale might be a problem etc etc, but gravity is not. Further, there may be little need for 24/7 1g, perhaps a tiny room to work out in is enough, perhaps you should sleep in 1g or perhaps 1/3 is enough for sleep etc. But, again gravity is not the problem. And yes such a massive fundamental failure in understanding is a clear sign of incompetence.
- gorkonsine 9y agoRotating something that size in Mars' gravity is far more difficult that rotating something in space. Clearly, you're far less competent than you think you are.
- Retric 9y agoWe literally already rotate large structures for amusement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolving_restaurants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolving_restaurant...
- monocasa 9y agoTo be fair, they intentionally rotate slow enough as to have no perceivable g forces. The example on that list that I had been to most recently is the Westin in Atlanta. It's 57M in diameter and it's upper floor spins at once every 30 minutes. Plugging that into Mω²r, you end up with 0.0000354084g. Not exactly the best example.