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[Q&A] How to Find The Voyagers, Deorbiting the ISS, Non-Rotational Artificial Gravity

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The Future of Artificial Gravity

The most practical form of artificial gravity that we're probably gonna be using in the next couple of decades is the variety that tries to mitigate some of the health problems that astronauts will experience when they're in space. We don't have ion drive that can produce constant acceleration for any length of time. Even nuclear rockets wouldn't be able to provide one G of acceleration for long periods of time. And what if you just wanna be in orbit around a planet and you don't want to hop on your sci-fi drive, expand spaceship and fly off? Like are you just gonna fly off to the far side of the solar system and then fly back and forth to give everybody one G in their space

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