The forum discussion centers on the creation of artificial gravity for space exploration, emphasizing the feasibility of using centripetal acceleration through rotation. Participants highlight that while linear acceleration could theoretically simulate gravity, it poses significant challenges due to fuel requirements. The Coriolis effect and centrifugal forces are also discussed as factors that need to be considered in the design of rotating spacecraft. Overall, the consensus is that rotational artificial gravity is a more practical approach compared to linear acceleration methods.
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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.