Colonizing Space, Issue 3: Fun And Games With Differential Gravity. Wait, What?

Glenn Rocess
Predict
Published in
3 min readAug 15, 2023

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In Issue #1, we discussed why spin gravity is essential for long-term space habitation. It turns out that in order to achieve sufficient spin gravity, bigger is not just better, but mandatory. Exhibit A is the screenshot from 2001: A Space Odyssey below:

From 2001: A Space Odyssey, the centrifuge of the space probe Discovery. In real life, the astronauts would probably be throwing up in no time. (Popular Science)

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Glenn Rocess
Predict

Retired Navy. Inveterate contrarian. If I haven’t done it, I’ve usually done something close.