The discussion centers around the concept of creating artificial gravity for space exploration, exploring various methods and implications of achieving this goal. Participants consider both theoretical and practical aspects, including centripetal acceleration, linear acceleration, and the potential use of magnetic forces.
Participants express multiple competing views on the feasibility and implications of different methods for creating artificial gravity. The discussion remains unresolved, with no consensus on the best approach or the practicality of the proposed ideas.
Participants acknowledge limitations in their proposals, such as the dependence on external forces for magnetic propulsion and the challenges of maintaining tangential velocity in a rotating system. The discussion also highlights the need for further exploration of engineering challenges associated with artificial gravity.
Weird only insofar as the conditioning you’ve had in living in standard Earth gravity.kimbyd said:So if you're throwing a ball "up" in a rotating spacecraft , it'd move in a weird arc.
Our current state of technology is a series of realized ‘fiction.’sophiecentaur said:Is it really worth introducing Sci-Fi ('Fiction') ideas into an Engineering problem? We might as well have a man with a magic wand on board to take us wherever we want.
And before quoting Arthur C Clarke, his ideas came from informed sources. The only real error in his fiction was the time scale for his events - very optimistic.
If you made two lists of SciFi ideas, with the fruitful ones in one list and the dead ends in the other, I think the dead ends would be in a huge majority. But that isn't a criticism of SciFi literature; a random bit of SciFi will be about as 'valuable' as any other bit of fiction.Digcoal said:Our current state of technology is a series of realized ‘fiction.’
And the cases where it is not are usually happy accidents followed by carefully digging into a “that was weird”. Such happy accidents are hard for sci-fi writers to predict.sophiecentaur said:Very often, it's Maths and concentrated thought that yield to advances in technology.