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?

  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    That’s why you split the ship in two and spin the habitation module around the heavier part of the ship¹, connected by a tether, as in Project Hail Mary (which the video says is still too fast… so just make the tether longer).

    1. Well, around their common barycentre, but you know what I mean.
    • theherk@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, a good idea. You run into some material strength issues, but I think this is the way.