Timeline for Would a rotating spacecraft disorient those looking out of it?
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| Sep 29, 2015 at 20:24 | history | edited | Premier Bromanov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2015 at 1:49 | answer | added | Paul | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 20:21 | comment | added | Premier Bromanov | @LocalFluff I'm not sure what you mean | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 19:18 | comment | added | LocalFluff | Maybe getting dizzy by looking out of the window from a spinning spaceship is good? Don't need to smoke any funny grass, which saves some oxygen too. Sorry, but I'm not the only one speculating wildly here. | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 19:03 | history | edited | Premier Bromanov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 18:58 | comment | added | Premier Bromanov | @LocalFluff Right, but in order to produce 1g of force, the station has to spin pretty quickly. About 2 RPM for a 200 m radius ship. As you get larger, you spin slower, but by today's standards, a large ship of about 100 - 300 meters across, you're still looking at 1-2 RPM. This is a huge difference from clouds passing overhead in 5-10 minutes (which also disappate and grow and are not constant shapes). Imagine the constant backdrop of the stars rotating 360 degrees every 30 seconds. Even a 3km ship is 1 rotation per 2 minutes. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 5:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSpaceExp/status/561760152517627904 | ||
| Feb 1, 2015 at 2:29 | comment | added | LocalFluff | Almost no one looks at the sky anyway. Clouds fly by without making people dizzy. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 2:12 | comment | added | Premier Bromanov | @ElScorcho The backdrop of the stars is ever present. I'm not so sure a large nearby object would help or hinder | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 2:09 | comment | added | ElScorcho | I think it would depend on how close large objects are in relation to the rotating station. If it's very close by then the spinning could be disorienting as any outside objects (plants, moons, etc) would appear to be spinning. If it were out in the middle of space then perhaps the spinning would be significantly less noticeable and therefore less disorienting. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 1:14 | history | asked | Premier Bromanov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |