The Von Braun Rotating Space Station
The future of space exploration is artificial gravity created by rotation.
Early in the video you will see what happened to an astronaut who was in a zero gravity space station far too lone.
The Von Braun design has escape craft aplenty and hotel rooms too!
(Me dino never knows what I may click on in my email).
Early in the video you will see what happened to an astronaut who was in a zero gravity space station far too lone.
The Von Braun design has escape craft aplenty and hotel rooms too!
(Me dino never knows what I may click on in my email).
Also, it long ago occurred to me that asteroids could prove very lucrative for mining minerals..
Better to have robots do the job due to asteroids having very little gravity.
Another advantage is that a very large colony population is possible in a small-ish asteroid. The exterior of the asteroid might be used to generate power for the colony.
Once the proper spin is created, you don't have to keep running the rocket engine in outer space.
Maybe a braking rocket engine pointed the other way may be a good idea.
Yeah, put a temporary stop on the spin so a cargo ship can land.
The stars may move quickly past if one looks up from whatever he is mining, but that shouldn't be a bother.
(Now that's what me dino calls thinking outside of the box). .
The TV show Expanse does a great job of showing what a hollowed at asteroid might look light.
One effect of using centrifugal force is that when objects drop, they don't fall straight "down" away from the axis of rotation. Like all objects they carry on in a straight tangential line and therefore appear to curve away from the direction of rotation. The effect would not be noticable in a very large diameter station spinning slowly. But in a reasonable size object, like a small asteroid, if you spin it fast enough to get earth gravity, that Coriolis-like effect gets worse. So you have to find a happy medium, spinning fast enough to have some gravity but not so fast as to make the effects spinning become to disorienting.
The cool thing is Expanse shows the effect without telling.
Google "1975 conference on manufacturing facilities in space at princeton" for lots of details including the NASA Ames/Stanford Summer Study as a followup.
Imagine your yo-yo being hollow and in outer space. Centrifugal force only affects the shell of the yo-yo, but not any items floating within the yo-yo. Same goes with the weight on a string.
Have there been actual experiments, in space, to prove this theory of artificial gravity within a spinning container? Things work much differently in the weightlessness of space that they do on the surface of our planet.
https://i.postimg.cc/QdVFVV3f/2001-hi...