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Even NASA considers rotational gravity to have huge obstacles rendering it impractical. https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/TOP2-311 https://technology.nasa.gov
by josefritzishere 2mo ago
Even NASA considers rotational gravity to have huge obstacles rendering it impractical. https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/TOP2-311 https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/TOP2-311
- andai 2mo ago>the need to mass balance the entire rotating spacecraft in order to eliminate or minimize rotational imbalance causing gyroscopic precession/nutation motions and other oscillations of the rotating spacecraft; I suppose this also involves mass-balancing the inhabitants! What does the Coriolis effect mean in this context?
- recursivecaveat 2mo agoObjects will experience weird-looking 'forces' from the perspective of people in a rotating reference frame. For example a thrown object will curve strangely through the air. On earth the effect is so subtle that only artillery and weather are really effected I think. On a spacecraft which is much smaller you would experience an extremely magnified version. As far as I can tell, there's no reason to believe that Coriolis will be harmful to humans beyond nausea and disorientation. If you ran quickly through the station it might cause you to fall. Possibly it might make machinery that deals with fluids more difficult to deal with. I would chalk it up as a relatively minor concern compared to other issues.