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Commentary by Karl Schroeder: > Beautifully rendered video of a wheel-shaped space habitat with artificial gravity. This shows viscerally what I pointed out in
by SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago
Commentary by Karl Schroeder:
> Beautifully rendered video of a wheel-shaped space habitat with artificial gravity. This shows viscerally what I pointed out in my Substack posts on the Single-Family Space Colony: that windows are a bad idea in rotating environments
https://mastodon.social/@KarlSchroeder/111161480469784844 https://mastodon.social/@KarlSchroeder/111161480469784844
A bad idea because: Since this is just a visualisation, the safety aspect is secondary to the way that it's quite disorientating, vertiginous, maybe even inducing of motion sickness.
I expect that a more practical design would have observation decks, but not huge windows everywhere. But that wouldn't make as nice a visualisation.