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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Mar 4, 2016
Anyone know why artificial gravity in space via rotating habitats hasn't been tried yet? Is it just cost/complexity?
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Ted Hand
@t3dy
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Mar 4, 2016
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there was one experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity#Space_missions… the engineering problems are super hard and expensive yes
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Venkatesh Rao
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huh, I didn't realize there was such an experiment in the Gemini program. Neat
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Ted Hand
@t3dy
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Mar 4, 2016
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see also http://popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a8965/why-dont-we-have-artificial-gravity-15425569/… http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2002ESASP.501..151H… http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050160960_2005161052.pdf… http://reuters.com/article/us-science-mice-idUSTRE58A02G20090911… http://artificial-gravity.com
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Ted Hand
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Mar 4, 2016
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another area of a-g research http://space.com/558-artificial-gravity-spin-idea.html…
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