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The point of my comment was that there are implications for the human body with the rotational artificial gravity. The video sums it up pretty nicely with a liv
by vasvir 4y ago
The point of my comment was that there are implications for the human body with the rotational artificial gravity. The video sums it up pretty nicely with a live experiment in 6min.
Keyword: Coriolis (pseudo)force
- ben_w 4y agoI saw the video when it was new, and knew about Coriolis force since my childhood when my father (incorrectly) told me the thing about the direction water rotates when draining. Its importance goes down when the parent object gets bigger compared to the contained object, which is why it's not important to draining but is important to hurricanes.
- abecedarius 4y agoThis was already treated in the 1970s NASA studies of space-colony concepts. In the first one they underestimated the problem, iirc, and had to recommend larger rings in the second.