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Artifical Gravity central core

You seem to be misunderstanding the "create gravity" portion of rotational gravity schemes. "Centrifugal acceleration" is just an object's inertia, but viewed from that object's ...
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Person falling from space

Your question is under-specified (you don't give the size or posture of your subject), so I'm assuming an average-sized woman falling in the classic face-down skydiver posture. I'm also modeling this ...
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If a baby was born on the ISS, what would its nationality be?

If a baby were born on the ISS, it would (probably) generally be treated the same way that it is handled here on Earth if babies are born on foreign soil. This means, it will be determined primarily ...
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If a baby was born on the ISS, what would its nationality be?

No The baby might have been born in space, but its parents, i.e. the ISS astronauts, were Homo Sapiens who originally came from Earth. So, your "baby" is about as "alien" as a ...
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