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Tagged with artificial-gravity science-fiction
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Why does controlling warp fields require biological intelligence?
The Namuh species consists of highly-intelligent organisms who have developed interplanetary travel and have colonized their home star system. Their science base has an excellent understanding of ...
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What to do so the sun (light source) appears to be following a daily cycle on a McKendree cylinder?
In my setting, a McKendree cylinder (a rotating habitat so large it holds its own atmosphere) is orbiting the sun, with the top of the cylinder pointing at the sun.
How do we make the sun appear to ...
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Help with artificial gravity (yet again) in sci-fi world
I am creating a sci-fi world for tabletop RPG and I have trouble with one thing and that is artificial gravity. What I need is to come up with some ideas for in-world reasonable explanation for the ...
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Using Diamagnetic repulsion to help negate the affects of weightlessness
I had an idea of a chamber that an astronaut would use when they would sleep that would allow their body to experience a gravity-like force to negate the negative effects of weightlessness, (Bone or ...
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Could gravitational wave interference patterns be used for long range sensors detecting advanced spaceships?
Low energy, fantastic range
From HDE in another topic, I learned gravitational waves have an intensity which is inverse proportional to distance, not square distance, like in electromagnetic fields..
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How does a spacecraft function despite it's own (non-centrifugal) artificial gravity?
Haven't done shipbuilding in a while so let me start simple. Sci-fi spacecrafts all tend to have some unexplained method of generating artificial gravity, which keeps the crew nice and cozy. The more ...
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How fast would the Moon (Luna) need to rotate so that anyone living in Lunar underground habitats would experience Earth-like gravity?
So I'm creating a sci-fi book, and I'd like to know a way to calculate how fast would the moon need to spin to create a certain amount of gravity, and how much energy would be required to get it to ...
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Would a ring generating a strong gravitational pull keep those inside unharmed?
My spaceship includes a technology that creates artificial gravity (AG). For all intents and purposes the inner workings of the device are unknown. It's essentially a black box. What is understood is ...
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I want to design a realistic Anti-gravity tank, how do I go about this?
In one of my stories, some guys form the 22nd century introduce a gravity or magnetic based hover tank. The problem is I am limited to real world Armour technology and KE and CE type weapons. the KE ...
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How to redistribute weight on an O'Neill Cylinder? [duplicate]
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With a rotating cylinder, applying weight to one side and not the other will cause it to rotate off axis and give it a 'wobble' likely causing undesired gravitational effects. Now clearly ...
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Is it believable to have a spaceship spin around a weight for artificial gravity?
In my narrative universe, there will be ships that use a 1g acceleration for artificial gravity. However, when they are not accelerating (whether on a longer journey at a constant velocity or simply "...
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