My Journey to Saturn .. and total isolation

[SpiderHerderParticipant 3784]

Technically, there would only be “gravity” when accelerating. At cruise speed, it would be back to weightlessness.

Ceramic cracks easily which is why they use Whipple shields usually made out of aluminum and Kevlar.

Anyway, if you’ve watched The Martian, you can see a system that would function as far as artificial gravity goes: a giant salad spinner. A rotating section of the craft creating centrifugal force.

Something though that could make one go insane is the illusion of not moving. When one is aboard the ISS, one can see the Earth moving underneath: there’s always a sense of movement. But imagine you’re far from the Earth and Moon, then you don’t even feel like you’re moving at all. You have no reference point in space. I imagine it would get boring fast…

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SpiderHerder wrote:

Something though that could make one go insane is the illusion of not moving. When one is aboard the ISS, one can see the Earth moving underneath: there’s always a sense of movement. But imagine you’re far from the Earth and Moon, then you don’t even feel like you’re moving at all. You have no reference point in space. I imagine it would get boring fast…

That’s something I’ve always considered and to me it would be maddening. “Are you sure we’re even moving…..????……..how do we know we’re not just drifting in space….????……..”

The evil in women’s hearts leaves them no moral bounds as to inhibit them from descending to the lowest levels of darkness to acquire their self entitled desires.

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

hmskl’d wrote:

What would it really be like to be totally isolated? How will future space travelers manage the fact that they may be the only human on a craft traveling for years .. possibly decades to some distant targets ..

Maybe we’ll meet friendly aliens on the way…

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