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2016-01-28 |
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Having scribbled different types of rotational artificial gravity |
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configurations and having started watching Voyager, an inspiration |
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to model spacecraft hit me. |
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The first craft is basically your generic appliance esthetic modern |
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Trek ship with wannabe realistic artificial gravity. |
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The very thorough Atomic_Rockets site has a nice_article about |
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realistic parameters for spinning artificial gravity. Unfortunately |
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the ~10 m radius of this craft would be nauseating at best, even |
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with low G. The design is also dubious for not having any sensible |
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configuration of the bola for acceleration/ deceleration. |
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The type of propulsion is unspecified but is something very noisy, |
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which justifies keeping it far away from the main structure. |
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The second craft is inspired by retro plastic and classic cars. |
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The cabling might be an overkill, but having some internal logic in |
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an otherwise 'artistic' design appeals to me very much. The station |
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would probably rotate in the direction of the windows and cabling, |
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it would be much less nauseating to see the sky rise or fall in |
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stead of rotating at ~2 rpm (yielding ½ g with 100 m radius). |
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The star_maps in both images are courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space |
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Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Everything modelled |
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and rendered in Blender. |
