Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Telepathic Intruder
Space travel does not necessarily mean weightlessness. There is a simple way to create artificial gravity: spin the ship.


9 posted on 09/02/2017 10:43:25 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]


To: COBOL2Java

Once we can develop extremely powerful and efficient power supplies like fusion or the much romanticized antimatter, ships could maintain 1 G acceleration/deceleration to use the propulsion system to give you gravity.


13 posted on 09/02/2017 10:50:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

To: COBOL2Java

16 posted on 09/02/2017 10:53:10 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson