How would I describe the deck setup to someone of an a O'Neill cylinder or Graham Baxter for civilian and military ships?...or are there readily available diagrams or pictures that offer a good, detailed visual of these devices?How does inertia work with spin gravity?
The guy i'm helping is having issues figuring out how to write in all the little specifics and details of centrifugal gravity, he needs to know where his people are in relation to where they are going and how they get there and such inside the ship.
Is it possible or necessary to build a spinning cylinder with decks setup like a sky scraper to work with inertia at first, pulling 'down' towards the engines, then when acceleration stops switch to spinning and have ether 1- utilities on the decks set up to change location easily and quickly, like on sliding rails or 2- Setup to work universally for easy access by people?
And my favorite, is it easier to just have a spin gravity area for exercise, sleep and/ or recreation (Like gardens, I foresee issues with zero G gardens and water) but the rest is in zero G?
The guy i'm helping is having issues figuring out how to write in all the little specifics and details of centrifugal gravity, he needs to know where his people are in relation to where they are going and how they get there and such inside the ship.
Is it possible or necessary to build a spinning cylinder with decks setup like a sky scraper to work with inertia at first, pulling 'down' towards the engines, then when acceleration stops switch to spinning and have ether 1- utilities on the decks set up to change location easily and quickly, like on sliding rails or 2- Setup to work universally for easy access by people?
And my favorite, is it easier to just have a spin gravity area for exercise, sleep and/ or recreation (Like gardens, I foresee issues with zero G gardens and water) but the rest is in zero G?
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