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?

  • theherk@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

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