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How would a spaceship not affected by gravity navigate between planets?
Presume there exists a metal called X-matter that has all the properties of steel, except it is repulsed by normal-matter instead of attracted. (For instance, a block of it would accelerate 9.81 m/s/s ...
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Debris Field around space wreckage
I am writing a story in which a crew is investigating a wreckage of two space vessels that collided at enough speed to disable the vessels without completely annihilating the two structures. The ...
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How could a starship take on a planet-massed passenger without noticing?
tl;dr: How could one ship transfer a planetary massed being to another ship without them noticing the gravity field during the operation? How could two ships rendezvous in deep space with one of ...
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Would a spacecrafts artificial gravity give it an atmosphere?
Artificial gravity is a staple concept of science fiction. Not much focus is ever put into explaining it for time and convenience as it would distract the audience from the story. Realistic sci-fi ...
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What is the highest g planet that can be escaped with current rocketry technology? [duplicate]
A spacefaring race in my story evolved on a high g planet. This made them smaller, stockier and stronger than most other spacefarers. The question is just how high their planet’s gravity could be ...
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How would a dirty space station with no artificial gravity look?
Just a weird question that popped in my head, but since the only real space station in existence always keeps itself squeaky clean, I wonder how one that doesn't have cleanliness as high priority ...
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how to get around a centrifugal force gravity ship
Lets say you had a really big space ship that uses the ramjet method to collect hydrogen. It can only generate gravity in a ring spinning around the collection cone. This means there's nothing in the ...
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Constant acceleration as artificial gravity. Would flipping over halfway still be comfortable?
My question isn't about whether constant acceleration can create artificial gravity, as I know that it can. I am thinking more about worldbuilding in the sense of a practical transportation system ...
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Low gravity space shipyard vs micro gravity shipyard
If you had a device, similar to a Stargate, but that allowed seamless two way transfer, and that could be moved (You could essentially strap a rocket on it, and fuel it from Earth), you could just ...
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Spin gravity on an abandoned ship
If a cylindrical rocket ship with a diameter of about 350 meters were spinning on its long axis, would more than just the interior surface of the outer hull have artificial gravity?
The ships decks ...
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How fast do we spin this for 'One g'
Following on from this question.
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Mars second moon Deimos has been converted into a generation ship.
A considerable portion of its mass has been shaved off during the process &...
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Could a form of acoustic levitation be used as artificial gravity?
So I heard about this thing on vsauce a while ago, where scientists use this thing called “acoustic levitation”. They use ultrasonic frequencies to levitate various substances, for use of studying ...
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Could gravitational lensing be used to protect a spaceship from a laser?
Suppose Ship A is being targeted by Ship B, which intends to use a laser weapon in an attempt to destroy Ship A.
Ship A has special technology that allows it to alter gravity (mainly used for ...
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A system for transporting people from a spinning ring up a conduit to a spaceship
I have a spaceship which is basically a cylinder a little less then a kilometer long. Attached to the ship by pylons connected to a hub is an inhabited ring which spins to produce a gravity-like ...
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Artificial gravity as an engine
I have seen some people talk about the idea of ships using their magical anti-gravity systems in a story in order to not only give ships a standard floor layout and inertial dampener systems, but to ...
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