If you do have a rotating spacecraft that generates the equivalent of 1g Will your body experience that exactly the same as the way someone on earth just in regular 1g would experience it or is it Are there different forces acting on you? Interesting. So if you're actually able to spin the habitat adequately in the super local Space where you're walking in 1g you will experience it much like you would experience it on earth. There's going to be a gradient as you get close to the center of the ring It'll be more and more and more like microgravity. That transition is there exactly into your prior earlier Neil about the o5 society in jerry o'neil This is something
When will we create a livable habitat in space? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Matt Kirshen explore the possibilities of tessellated space structures, artificial gravity, and other challenges with Founder of MIT Space Exploration Initiative, Ariel Ekblaw.
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