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I'm here just wondering if people get dizzy in a spinning space station...

• hermitcrab 1y ago
  A large spacecraft doesn't have to spin very fast to simulate 1g. So probably not.
  • BizarroLand 1y ago
    2-3 rpm seems to be the speeds from the winning submission, varying depending on which level you're on. (Closer to the center = faster rotation to equal 1g). I bet that their descendants would find the idea of seasickness amusing, since they would probably be nearly immune to it.
  • TuringNYC 1y ago
    I was always curious about this. In some of the star wars movies, you dont see any spin, yet they are not floating around (e.g., notice how Orson Krennic has a backdrop of a planet, isnt floating, yet the planet isnt spinning https://allfortheboys.com/ben-mendelsohn/ https://allfortheboys.com/ben-mendelsohn/) I know Interstellar did not ignore the spin, but do movies like Star Wars just ignore the entire concept?
    • Ancalagon 1y ago
      I think they have artificial gravity in star wars iirc
      • svachalek 1y ago
        And anti-gravity, as seen in the many machines and craft that easily hover around.
        • Apocryphon 1y ago
          Most popular sci-fi in visual media up until recent examples like The Expanse and Cowboy Bebop (though only because the remake revived interest in the original) are soft sci-fi when it comes to walking around in spaceships.
          • fc417fc802 1y ago
            This got me thinking. There are fairly hard takes on most fictional technology but I don't know that I've ever come across one for artificial gravity. At least no examples immediately come to mind. I guess that's just too far out in the fictional physics system weeds for even the more dedicated of authors.
            • Apocryphon 1y ago
              Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions (albeit the weakest one), perhaps trying to create it artificially is a bit beyond even hypothetical physics. Sounds like the latest suggestion for it is from 2016: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-mathematician-has-proposed-a-way-to-create-and-manipulate-gravitational-fields https://www.sciencealert.com/a-mathematician-has-proposed-a-... > Now, Füzfa has shown, mathematically speaking, that by stacking large superconducting electromagnets we would be able to produce a very weak gravitational field, and that we'd be able to detect it using highly sensitive interferometers. These interferometers would work by basically superimposing gravitational fields on top of each other so that physicists could obtain information about them.
              • fc417fc802 1y ago
                Right, but in a fictional universe we aren't constrained by real world physics. Yet no "hard" takes on artificial gravity come to mind. I assume this is partly because any explanation would be difficult to work into an interesting narrative (unless you consider physics journal articles and mathematical equations interesting) and also because "simulating" the downstream impacts of changes at such a low level of physics just sounds incredibly daunting and probably near impossible to get right. The linked article is interesting. I'm amused by the mental image of the Millennium Falcon crumpling like a tin can into a singularity when magnets of ludicrous strength under the deck plating are suddenly switched on.