A Japanese team has designed "artificial gravity living facilities" that would spin on other planets to equal Earth gravity.
I get why they would want to do this, because we evolved for 1G and our bones don't like not having the resistance.
But here are the very real issues:
1. The one for the moon would spin every 20 seconds. Even with no outside cues, can we be sure this won't create vertigo? Maybe even knowing it would make you throw up!
2. How do you get in and out.
Oh, and they are also pipe dreaming about...an...interplanetary space train that will generate its own gravity. They want to put bullet trains in space, because of course they want to put bullet trains in space.
This sounds more like the plot for an anime than real scientific research, but it would be kind of neat if they can pull it off.
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