There's a group called gravity labs that's looking at making real a technology described in hail mary Andy weirs latest book. So there's definitely some kind of gondola at the end of a tether Exactly that gets swung around and in that gondola you'd have the gravity that you see. It's no more complex than when you're a kid and you swing a bucket on a rope It's fundamental physics. Someone consists of lead throughout the universe so yeah, yeah, not only yeah when you were a kid, but when you're in space"
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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