Sucky idea.
Having retired from 45 years in aerospace, I assert we won’t ever send man to Mars.
Too damned expensive and nothing to be learned that robots can’t tell us for 1/10th the price.
Colonizing is a joke.
It WORKS because it SUCKS...?
And if it wasn’t working, that’d be cuz it DIDN’T suck...?
discovery did not rotate, it had an internal drum. the russian craft in 2010 did rotate. not sure centripedal force would work, especially if you toss something into the air.
Weightlessness is a minor problem.
This is the major problem:
Doh. So the upper body is subject to forces separate from the lower body. Sounds like a whole new host of internal problems. Sounds like a liberal idea. Physical dissonance.
Take Rosie O’Donnell... That girl got gravity. Lesser people orbit ‘round that mass.
The “Ferris Wheel” from 2001 was an Earth-orbit space station, not a spaceship.
It’s artificial but it’s not gravity. Will not prevent astronauts from suffering the effects of zero gravity. The rotating spacecraft would.
To give the feeling of gravity, wouldn’t the spin have to steadily accelerate? Once you were moving at the same speed as the spin, would you still have the sense of weight?
I read your headline as Artificial Gravy. I tried to imagine what that could be.................then I read it again and realized I was hungry.