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Put the bases at the poles ; that way there's no precessive forces to deal with. |
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//Put the bases at the poles// |
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For symmetry, you could put Poles at the bases too.
Pozdrowienia! |
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a1 is 100% correct. A widely known concept. That's why
most space stations even in the movies are of a 'hub, spoke
and rim' design. Zero gee at the hub, 1G at the rim. |
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Actually, I don't remember any planetary living-quarter centrifuges appearing in SF... with the *possible* exception of a story by James P Hogan, but I can't remember what it was. |
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More interesting would be non acceleration or inertial force, environment manipulated gravity designs. Most scifi just gives a future time and waves magic hands producing equipment with a switch. |
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Detailed imaginings can lead to new advancement paths. |
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If you ran the mechanism in reverse you could use the device to simulate freefall on the surface of the earth |
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What [bso0u0155] said way back in Apr 2021 //Utterly baked in SF// not to mention in many serious NASA and other design papers probably going back to the 1960s and before .. the use of a centrifuge to counter the long term effects of low gravity environments has long been half baked (in both fiction and serious science), might be considered fully baked in some ways and is very WNTI as a serious concept. |
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[Makes notes and files next to interupted half-circle centrifuge anti gravity device] |
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