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It's really interesting/odd that spin gravity stations have not been tested out in practice yet. Everyone just wants to do zero G experiments on their station a
by moffkalast 2y ago
It's really interesting/odd that spin gravity stations have not been tested out in practice yet. Everyone just wants to do zero G experiments on their station and nothing else.
I think the dual spacecraft with a long cable is really the only practical option, since you get far too much coriolis for it to be bearable otherwise. Remains to be seen if they can make it work with two spacex starships though.
- yencabulator 2y agoNew scifi story idea: two space ships tethered to spin together, Mars-bound on a multi-month trajectory, both carrying crew[1], and one of them has the cliched space horror encounter with nasty alien life -- tell the story mostly from the point of view of the other crew. What to do? [1]: Cargo can fly cheaper & slower, not worry about radiation exposure.