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And ludicrously energetically expensive. But that's science proposal writing, isn't it? Propose something that would be ludicrous even if it were physical.

• mr_mitm 3y ago
  Ludicrous barely begins to describe the idea. It would have to be a mass on the order of magnitude of a moon that you would have to a) create and b) carry with you so that you would feel some gravity. Why not just build a rotating ring instead? No one in scifi was even entertaining this idea afaik.
  • Izkata 3y ago
    > No one in scifi was even entertaining this idea afaik. Yeah, this is the first I've heard of it too. If it's not rotation it's usually left unexplained, and when it's not it's usually something along the lines of an artificial gravity generator that pulls things towards it, like in Star Trek the floors contain "gravity plating" that does that on a small scale.
  • thsksbd 3y ago
    "It would have to be a mass on the order of magnitude of a moon" Here I am overcomplicating things in terms of E=mc2, and you come and point out the obvious.