We all know the pictures of the astronauts on the ISS floating around. We also suspect that a lack of gravity is bad for the body as the muscles go weak and such.

Why don’t spaceships just rotate to cause the effect of artificial gravity through centrifugal forces?

  • Windex007@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    There was recently a “design proposal” (more of a published thought experiment) I read (posted on lemmy) where the authors had figured out the diameter required such that the gravity differential from feet to head wouldn’t be weird. It was quite large if I recall.

    • fizzle@quokk.au
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      2 days ago

      I guess thats why, in sci fi it’s only used on ring shaped objects. A ship with a ring around its mid section, or a space station, or the expanse has a barrel shaped ship.