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Can The Human Body Handle Rotating Artificial Gravity?
Scott Manley surveys the research on whether people can adapt to rotating artificial gravity, from early Soviet centrifuge tests to modern studies. He concludes it is an engineering problem and discusses Coriolis effects and station radius.
Why HN readers recommended it
Linked as the clear explainer on rotational gravity and its Coriolis oddities.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Scott Manley
- Topic
- artificial gravity
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
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Scott Manley did a video looking at this, it’s a good and informative watch: [VIDEO] The gist is that is actually doable at the same(ish) scale as the ISS. Bigger is better but we can do it at a radius as little at 40m.
samwillis on Hacker News · 2021-12
In NASA's new sleeping bags could prevent eyeball 'squashing' on the ISSYouTuber Scott Manley has a great video on artificial gravity in space, including concepts that resemble the article's proposal: [VIDEO] Before I watched the video, I didn't know the Soviet Union tested a (small) centrifuge for artificial gravity in space back in the 70s: [LINK]
deepdriver on Hacker News · 2022-07
In Japanese researchers propose a concept for making artificial gravity on the moon
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