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Wouldn't tumbling a spaceship give you some basic gravity? Isn't that a desired outcome?
by tfha 9y ago
Wouldn't tumbling a spaceship give you some basic gravity? Isn't that a desired outcome?
- valuearb 9y agoIt appears to be tumbling end over end. It's possible that it's spinning end over end in order to generate artificial gravity at the ends, but this contradicts one basic design star-ship design principle. You build a long narrow ship so you can have heaviest particle shielding only at the narrow front to reduce shielding mass required. But maybe since it's traveling so slow, they didn't need any excessive shielding. Maybe they have super light super strong shielding technologies. That itself would seem to be contradictory, given you'd think they'd have access to far more energy than would produce only 40 km/sec velocity.