• Fuck spez@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Or like the picture on the right but with the people standing on the inner surfaces instead of the outer ones? Centrifugal force from rotation is the only way we know how to make “artificial” gravity, although you can imagine the comical scene if it had to stop rotating in order to fire.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It could spin around the cannon’s axis pretty easily, I imagine.

      Also it would need to spin in layers because the outside would be moving a lot faster than the inside. For the size of it that actually probably wouldn’t matter all that much since the closer layers wouldn’t need to be inhabited by anyone but much more resilient droids.

      One thing for sure is that even with such afancy technology they probably wouldn’t have directional floor gravity producers. The stacked version would then need to have gravity generators at the very bottom and it would get weaker as you go up which would be…strange.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It being a sphere should make walking around very uncomfortable. Every single place is a ramp, and the gravity is never the same anywhere.