How SpaceX Will Create Artificial Gravity In Space

How SpaceX Will Create Artificial Gravity In Space.
Elon Musk has recently leaked an insane Starship artificial gravity concept idea on Twitter. This concept would include a tether between two starships which would allow astronauts to feel artificial gravity on their mission to Mars. Even though the idea seems crazy, it might actually just work. In this video, we will go over this exact concept and Elon Musk's plans for how it will work with SpaceX Starship.
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[@VoyagerSpace]

I accidentally said "Artificial Intelligence" in the video, but other than that I hope you all enjoyed it! Let me know what your thoughts are on this artificial gravity concept in the comments below and I'll make sure to reply to as many comments as I can!

[@subscriberswithvideoscha-uw6cr]

Hi

[@CyberThug1080i]

Oh you beat me to it

[@5nowChain5]

yeah, we all noticed that blooper. lolz

[@amadmalik]

A few times actually, I mean Elon is also working on AI but this video was not about that right

[@octaviusjohnson6243]

I wanted to post that! IMAO🤣🤣

[@jasonoleary3527]

Leaving earths atmosphere doesn’t negate gravity, it’s still there! It’s travelling 28,000 kph while constantly falling, parcelling the curvature of the earth that gives the illusion of weightlessness.

[@JosuaKylie]

Not completely wrong, but: the illusion of freefall near earth is created by inertial forces of object movement cancelling out gravity forces acting upon it. A continual sequence of such equilibrium points for a given set of parameters - like object mass, object speed etc. - is called orbit. However - in general gravity force still keeps decreasing by the square of the distance to the attracting gravitational center, as it is tied to the gravitational field of the attracting object which might be moving on ist own. Like earth does - she is moving incl. its gravitational center by ~ 107.000 kph resp.67.000 mph around the sun.

[@cashobuyer]

Literally about to type that. I might add tho, if you move far enough away, you do lose the gravity also 😎. But anything just in orbit is indeed just constantly falling.

[@dondragmer2412]

@@JosuaKylie Yes, the illusion is there, and the effects of gravity in the form of weight is canceled but in reality gravity is still there and hardly, only to a tiny extent, diminished in near-Earth orbit. It is only when you get many thousands of miles above Earth that there is truly a noticeable, to human sensation, decrease in gravity, however well we can measure the decrease with instruments.

[@robrussell5329]

We feel gravity because the force of the floor we are standing on is pushing "up" with 1G. Our limbs, organs, blood, eyeballs, brain, etc,. are all "crashing" into that floor, all the time. In orbit, there is no floor doing that to us. (This is my very unscientific way of thinking of it.)

[@charleshorn1708]

Think of it like this: if you spin an object attached to a string around really fast it only stops pulling on the string when it loses enough velocity. Now in space the "string" is gravity and the faster you're moving the more centripetal (pushing out) force you're applying. Orbit occurs when those forces are in equilibrium so technically you're not falling at all just balancing in one dimension.

[@phillpauley6672]

They should mimic earth's gravity all the way to Mars. That way everyone would be super strong for a while once they get there. It'd be easier to lift and build when they get there.

[@khmaatta4624]

It is very much incorrect to claim that at orbit we experience weightlessnes due to weaker gravity, which is allmost the same as at surface.. real cause is due to fact that at space you are constantly free falling when you are not accelereting or decelerating... just as You are when falling.. 😏

[@ciel1083]

Yeah, you'd think they'd know how orbiting works. It's literally one object free falling around another object until eventually it enters to atmosphere and either burns up or falls to Earth.

[@IanValentine147]

Please publish the video with Artificial Inteligence replaced by Artificial Gravity, and delete sections with the explaination that astronauts are beyond gravity when in orbit, if that were true whats holding the moon in place? Zero G means no relative acceleration with your environment, NOT the absence of gravity.

[@WWeronko]

Not trying to be overly critical and not a Phd physicist, I still found this video at around a 3rd grade level. Nothing was said that wasn't obvious to even the simple minded.

[@SKRUBL0RD]

in other words, every video on youtube explaining things to mass populace. weird, that.

[@GlennJTison]

He is actually planning to use a tether to another large object ( probably another Starship) to get a large enough radius to not make passengers dizzy, and to keep gravity aligned perpendicular to the decks at launch. He is certainly planning to bring artificial intelligence along, as well.

[@gustavinus]

4:53 WOW .. the spin creates Artificial INTELLIGENCE 😂

[@planetdisco4821]

Nose to nose tethering would be best, that way there’s no need to reconfigure the interior layout for the transit time to Mars…

[@jonbong98]

Crews will not Launch with StarShip, will load in LEO, for logistical as well as safety reasons for many years.

[@SpaceXZone1]

This gonna take some time but sounds really good!

[@hitorihanzo1575]

gravity at the international space station only is reduced less than 2%, the people in the ISS are in free fall so they dont feel any more gravity than some falling off a building. the ISS is falling at the same rate as the curve of the earth is happening because they are traveling at 27,000 km in an orbit. (falling but they miss the earth)

[@savianscheiman9360]

Thank you for correcting him he should know this

[@princessneekee853]

Can u explain it in an easier way? Im interested.

[@vixitrix9329]

for the Starship, nose to nose would be the best configuration

[@Tragiksouls]

The artificial intelligence part made me laugh. Good video!

[@codyabel4766]

4:53 you meant to say “artificial gravity” but said “artificial intelligence”

[@cristoantonov]

First time AG was created, 2 Gemini capsules hooked by a cable, one spinning around the other. Nevertheless, if the distance to the center is too short, there will be a significant difference of the gravity in the feet in comparison with the one in the head. For me this are only speculations. First Starship must fly successfully. Meanwhile 😆

[@davidsherburne8429]

This looks logical.

[@terryjohnson5176]

By it having a round shape you can build it much larger and more stable

[@syedfarzan6695]

1st tea is fantastic

[@ralphrennerbloder3456]

Gravity is a sideeffect of the sphere.

[@TgamerBio5529]

Rotating ring would be easier to be honest

[@thefurrybastard1964]

Great video, like the entheusiasm you put into it. And *yes,* I did chuckle every time you said artificial intelligence.

[@cosmicsailor5015]

Just a brief correction. You still experience gravity after you leave Earth's atmosphere. At low earth orbit you experience almost the same amount of gravity just as you would on the surface of the Earth. The thing is, at least when you are in orbit, is that you are constantly falling away from Earth, and due to that free fall, you experience weightlessness. To get some understanding, the moon is about 380 000 km away from Earth and the gravity of Earth is still strong enough to keep the moon in orbit at that distance. And the low earth orbit stretches up to only 2000 km. So you don't stop to experience gravity as soon as you leave Earth's atmosphere.

[@barakcobrama1703]

omg he got that so wrong did he not i wonder if he knows about orbiting the earth in other words you need to fall back to earth in a orbit to be weightless.

[@terrycook2733]

They need a ISS type station where docking multiple star ships can happen. Also a rate of 1 starship launch a month from earth to space for refuel purpose would be a need. If they had a big enough team of manufacturing parts to assembly to lift off then making a StarShip as big as a half mile assembly in space would be sufficiant to the cause to going to the orbit of the moon or to mars orbit to go to and from the station to get the colonony base working.

[@VoyagerSpace]

Elon Musk has mentioned he wants to build 100 Starships per year, so it might be a good idea for them to have somewhere to dock while in orbit.

[@Pixelinvesting]

@@VoyagerSpace orbital Assemblies Corporation is building a huge artificial gravity space station before 2030.

[@PlaynBass]

Huge gas bags could hold the algae farms to harvest sunlight using CO2 and water. Methane can be mined from the moons of gas giants. Everywhere we want to go in the solar system, we need orbiting hotels on that transfer orbit.

[@McClarinJ]

A 1,000-meter carbon-fiber cable attached to the nosecone of two starships that could use lateral thrusters to achieve rotation strikes me as the best design. The 1km separation (500m radius) would prevent inner ear problems and the nose-to-nose orientation would let occupants use the floor plan designed for Earth and Mars. I see no reason the ships would require a rigid beam to connect them. The cable, especially if carbon-fiber, would be far less weight. The pair of Starships would accelerate to maximum velocity before reorienting and connecting for the long voyage. The problem with a toroidal structure is that it would require a huge and very costly construction effort whereas the Starships are already built to be lifted in 1G on Earth by their nosecone. Why introduce unneeded cost, complexity, and chance of failure?

[@jonbong98]

50m radius at 2 RPM = Mars gravity

[@McClarinJ]

@@jonbong98 There's a problem with inner-ear/balance function at radii below a certain size but I'm not sure what that dimension is.

[@jonbong98]

@@McClarinJ just research, NASA etc. It's not a significant issue at the figures above, and certainly when compared to months of zero g

[@andreb.8266]

I stick with the idea of making a ring with Bigelow pod and one Starship in the middle. Just a moving habitat you let on orbit when you land and move with you for travel. With this you can move a big amount of cargo slowly but safelly. Not sure if two starship rotating can be safe, it probably put a strain on both Starship.

[@dandupaysdegex]

You can never "feel" gravity, it has nothing to do with distance. What you feel is the inertia of the ground beneath your feet. So you stop feeling the effect of gravity as soon as your feet are not touching the ground (as when in free-fall). In fact, the gravitational force due to earth is not much lower on the ISS than it is down here. I just had to clarify...

[@dandupaysdegex]

@@FanofDocumentaries No he's right about the spinning part.

[@enoughmonster2886]

The space so magical I cannot get enough. Sometimes I watch and listen to music I like imagine me travel the space. New rock and legend rock like deltaparole, foo fighter, nirvana, rush.

[@Watergox]

The coriolis effect on those Starships would make quite interesting things happen when you tried pouring liquids :D

[@L8rCloud]

Two wheels spinning in opposite direction so that they cancel out each other’s procession looks good in an animation….BUT what if they need to adjust course?

[@joshuamoore24_7]

A couple rare earth magnets encased in titanium capsules at the ends or extending pillars that revolve around a capsule of the space station, might create some gravity.

[@utkuerkan7028]

Hi public/Toasty; It's an optimistic idea & not a bad notion. If SpaceX persues it, it'll benefit the humans on board the Starships with artificial gravity giving the identical living conditions as residing on planet Earth while on expeditions to Mars & other destinations in the universe. :-)

[@VoyagerSpace]

I agree, It will be interesting to see exactly how SpaceX implements this into the Starship design.

[@MrSimonw58]

Not identical earth's gravity is warped space time , either way hope to F the tether doesn't break.

[@alphagt62]

It doesn’t have to be 100%, even a little is much better than none.

[@goldenrules5697]

@@alphagt62 if there's little .. that little is biggest hope ... A seed will grown Tobe very Big!

[@Generalphoenix8438]

It's an interesting concept and one we need to accomplish for the future of our species to adapt to space better. Though I'm still waiting for a lucarhulk ship from starwars. NOW THAT WOULD BE MIND BLOWING.

[@VoyagerSpace]

I cant wait!

[@Generalphoenix8438]

@@VoyagerSpace I was actually just thinking. They should build it on the moon. A zero gravity environment could be a perfect area and then its launching it slowly in position with a few modifications to make it an asteroid grabber to collect more materials. Possibly even make larger asteroids that are a threat smaller with an anti missile defence system to send multiple missiles at them wave after wave to make then smaller to handle.

[@rikomagyar7850]

Greetings from Australia, Perth....///

[@daryjoe]

Artificial intelligence lol

[@grlcowan]

What you call the von Braun wheel, I like to call the "Kubrick dumbwheel". This distinguishes it from the dumbbell configuration. Two SpaceX Starships swinging around each other on a nose-to-nose tether are an example of the dumbbell.

[@sturmtiger7704]

What if we combine the magnetization with the spin, while wearing equalized bracelets (feet and hand) and shoulder / necklace?

[@terryjohnson5176]

Now you understand why the spaceship has to be round like the one off star trek cause it's massive size and the design of it mostly round to spin the very large gyroscope and to control turning and movement of the spaceship

[@TimmydePW]

The clip of The Martian being labeled Interstellar broke my heart :(

[@theamericanchannel3921]

But how will the centre be fixed? If not the the spinning motion will weaken the thread( connection) and it might break because of force of attraction in space. Either both ships will collide into each other, or get pulled apart so hard that they get separated.

[@darrellcherry9172]

You make it sound like gravity magically becomes nonexistent in space. Gravity effects everything no matter where that object or person is located.

[@hadimohamed4383]

@@spoilerwarning8383 but it will be 99% on iss not 0. It's because of the free falling around the earth

[@peterdobson3435]

I knew doughnuts were good for something. They create artificial gravity here on earth also. Just eat enough of them and I assure you that you will definitely feel the gravity grow stronger. :)

[@songchxn6911]

Thats so cool way to define Gravity...xD

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Cotati]

We need weighty donuts...too sweet!

[@felixmax5020]

Hahaha...we call them pig pigy@obess.

[@TheJayrod97]

How you gonna forget about the gravitron ride lol

[@OpusBuddly]

On a long journey the redundancy of two Starships will be worth the extra cost.

[@Phase52012]

See Apollo 13. Just think of what would have happened to the crew if the O2 tank had exploded on their way back from the Moon.

[@amontidmore]

that tether better be stronger than almost anything you can find on earth. thank god elon is a alien

[@grlcowan]

If you've been watching the operation at Boca Chica, you will have seen Starship prototypes being lifted by cables found on Earth.

[@richardcranium6081]

The thumbnail to this video looked like a spaceship with a giant donut around it. I wanna open the first donut shop on Titan

[@GeneLucas2941]

What about the Coriolis effect? How will you get your astronauts accustomed to it? Or how will you minimize the effect?

[@yarisftw3736]

you would need a constant gravity acting against the spinning disk. i don't think it would exist. also, centrifugal force and centripetal force are multipliers of existing gravity. anything spinning in space is just spinning with a force multiplier of 0. none of the ideas in this video will ever work.

[@jonbong98]

2 RPM is fine up to 8 after a couple of days.

[@TheWinezen]

Use the Expanse concept. Maintain an acceleration of 10meters per second and then orient your ship layout so that reactionary force sismulates gravity for the passengerson the ship. Unfortunately this means you would need to really get those ion drives developed as conventional space ships couldn't carry enouhg propellant to get you to Mars in constant gravity. Perhaps a staggered accelleration one hour every 3 days could be enough to maintain muscle strength and bone density for the journey

[@grlcowan]

That can work -- edit, Bachana Sakandelidze's proposal for a Starship that splits in two, creating two identical halves tethered together, that I thought this would appear under, can work -- and the two halves don't have to be identical. The Starship has four lift points around its top. The splitting in two would start with an ion drive module and solar panels to power it -- together being 7.9 percent of total mass -- connected to these lift points by four furled ropes. Each of these ropes would be 3.2 percent of system mass. To start, the ion thruster section would be let out just a few metres, and turned on, firing tangentially. This would soon have the vehicle turning end-over-end once a minute. The ion thruster section would hang straight ahead at about 0.07 gees. Then we just continue letting it down slowly, while it continues to thrust tangentially. When the spin rate goes below 1 RPM, we reduce the rate of down-letting, and if it goes above, we increase that rate. Note that while we let that section down, the rest of the Starship is also being let down. Both directions are down. After some days the main body of the vehicle is 894 m from the spin axis and is getting one gee. The ion drive, which is much farther out on the other side of that axis, can now be turned off, or -- if it has a gimballing mount -- reassigned from tangential thrusting duty to a new job: throwing ions in a fixed celestial direction. If that direction isn't lined up with the spin axis, it will have to be on a gimballing mount that pivots it so that, as seen from on board, the direction it is pointing traces out a cone once per minute. This leaves 79 percent of the mass to be the Starship hanging from the four ropes -- just as we have seen it do on the ground -- with fully gravitied people inside. Perhaps 21 percent of the mass is too much to pay for this. Partisans for other percentages are welcome to present the cases for them.

[@johnhodges8227]

He could use a weight on the other side adjustable to balance spin and way cheaper he wouldn't need the second ship

[@bluephoenix3986]

If greater mass than self is required for earth like gravity to exist, could the following be achievable: place a heavy metallic rolling pin beneath a traversable platform that astronauts would walk on and accelerate to reach the G force needed

[@ericvanbree7688]

Drehzylinder(statt Mühlen- flügelartiges) v.w. wieder des bevorzugten in dieser "M1"-Sektion .

[@dv1872]

You mean it will create artificial GRAVITY not intelligence? By rotating it will simulate the pull of gravity not AI

[@VoyagerSpace]

Yes

[@monkebetao]

he could use a dragon to launch a tube to connect two ship

[@EricPham-gr8pg]

If turn the ring sideway put underneath the space ship maybe more easier

[@dwightcollman4917]

Would like more detail…eg.,how is gravityaffected in the spokes of a rotating wheel spaceship; how would these zones affect passengers? Just one of many questions

[@yarisftw3736]

there is no gravity. rotation does not make gravity.

[@joshuamoore24_7]

If there is a scaled down model with scaled down astronauts with a video camera or two with solar and battery power and the ring around it. They could test theory of artificial gravity on a smaller scale first. If the miniature astronaut replicas stick to the floor of the scaled down replica it would see like it works before trying on a full scale size.

[@tonik04]

A centrifuge brings another problem. The Coriolis effect. Possibly quite disturbing to feel and though not everyone can't support it.

[@pidgy9951]

I'm curious if something would damaged the tether during this mars mission, would both starships "yeet" away from their intended course? if so are the people onboard uberfucked at that point?

[@maninifarmer1338]

Wonder if NASA and SpaceX could team up together for a test? Maybe they could use two Dragons as a test vehicle?

[@darthwiizius]

Space X's tech is already from NASA.

[@malp78]

"Scott Kelly came back from a mission in the Stars". Which ones in particular, the Sun and Alpha Centauri perhaps?

[@jgardner2508]

You have the star ships reversed to support gravity on the interior floor in a tethered spiral.

[@salihzeybek3664]

Artificial intelligence by spin wow. i didnt know creating an ai can be that easy haha lol

[@watchers047]

What if we used magnet as medium for gravity?? We can used the property of magnetism in both space suit & space ships to create gravity like.. Only problem is it might attract space debris

[@bachanasakandelidze2925]

Gravity affects each cell of the body. Magnetism can not do that, it can only attract scertian materials. So two completely different things.

[@JodiFCobb]

A merry go round. Simplicity?

[@RickyDownhillRDH]

4:54. You called it out in your pinned comment, but it still made me laugh!! Oops.

[@marjoriehague4388]

Probably by 2100, this is us looking back in the early 1900s and the current understanding at the time

[@intuitivme]

2 star ships also gives you redundancy, two birds one stone

[@julianjulian2957]

you blow everything out of proportion.

[@princessneekee853]

The fun of being in space is floating without gravity. Giving a spaceship artificial gravity removes the fun.

[@alliem1981]

I would send that up now and land on the moon, just in case of the moon impact might effect gravity.

[@solapowsj25]

Idea would work, but things would fall at an angle within the crafts, I'd say.

[@azztopia]

Just wanna throw out there that a bigger object does not always mean more mass, as seen with blackholes that can hold incredible amounts of mass inside of them. Other than that great video!

[@nias2631]

Seems like you would get redundancy from it. Also, what good is getting people to Mars if they are debilitated? Seems worth the cost. Imagine one starship at the hub for propulsion. And 2 spinning? Eventually he will be launching flotillas... maybe it will be groundwork for a spinning wheel of 100 starship at a time.

[@mortkebab2849]

What movie(s) are the clips from, at 1:00 ?

[@richardmattocks]

Maybe the stronger the gravity, the greater the intelligence.. hmmm. I can see a new story plot device coming on! Beware those super-smart folk from huge planets 😊

[@cozzihoffmaann]

I will wait until humanity has mastered and understand the graviton.

[@spleefthedude7747]

Nice

[@christopherpett3264]

This idea is illustrated in a science fiction book Naga Invasion by Jack Enright.

[@ankitjr.6037]

Otherwise some magnetic suits should be there which would create constant attraction towards the ships ground which might give a artificial gravity feeling

[@chrislecky710]

how does gravity affect water on the molecular level?

[@jeffjames3111]

Other than floating around, nothing.

[@bachanasakandelidze2925]

What if they build starship in a way that after going out in space it could split in half from nose to the bottom, creating two identical halfs tethered together. Would only require one starship for tethering effect and hard task of connecting two seperate rockets after launch in the space will be avoided.

[@grlcowan]

I agree with this.

[@zajournals]

2 starships tethered together and spinning (from center of tether)... There, saved you 8 minutes.

[@mattcolver1]

Artificial Intelligence by spinning, huh?

[@neiloakey5183]

AT 4:55 I think you meant Artificial Gravity, you said Intelligence..... eek... Great informative video... thank you

[@johnjaw19]

Is it just me or is that intro pic really phallic?

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

and they do those space walks at thousands of miles an hour .

[@rune5512]

Could you use one starship with its cargo as the counterweight. Instead of two starhips?

[@THX..1138]

Yes...And if the cargo Starship has a lot more mass (which it should) that may make coordinating their mural rotation easier than trying rotate two Starships of equal mass around one another.

[@jackboot3946]

There's no reason to rotate the entire vessel. Just the living quarters/habitat could be detached and swung around the bulk of the craft.

[@franksolario1842]

@@THX..1138 Two objects of different masses will naturally rotate around their barycenter. Also, you only need to accelerate one of the masses to start rotation.

[@THX..1138]

@@franksolario1842 Yeah that makes sense, but spinning up that way may not be the most pleasant way to do it for passengers.

[@5nowChain5]

Hooking up from the nose cone lifting mounts looks the best bet. the chassis is already structurally strong enough for an empty starship to be lifted by them. might need a bit more strengthening for a fully loaded starship frame to take the full weight of a max loaded starship at a 1G spin. probably best to have a central custom starship as core hub that upto 4 starships could dock with by their noses. reinforced nose docking rings wont be that hard an option to fit. KISS - (keep it simple-stupid) principle applies here. x2 central starships docked tail to tail, with others on the outer noses. additional structural strengthening will be required. middle ships are the rotating hub core's, x4 starships on both central starships, offset by 45degrees to ensure safety spacing, = 8 rotating ships on x4 core ships. allows low-G vertical gravity in x8 starship modules. with upto x8 landers or x4 landers and x4 provision/fuel tankers for return trip. only major changes would be of the need for RCS thrusters on the tails of all spoke ships to synchronise automatic spin(up/down) during transplanetary flight. (or do it Expanse style, boost out, flip, brake in)) there isnt really much restriction on how many starships you could dock to a central starship core. 8 is possible to 1 starship core. you could end up with 20+ custom starships in a docked cluster to make the trip with 0.3G+ with a nuclear engine and do it fairly quickly. a starship doesn't have to be circular in shape, especially not a core docking module. might need an extra booster stage though.

[@kevinryan7154]

The main irreconcilable flaw in the whole "multiplanetary species" thing is that Mars is too small. Its too small to provide healthy levels of gravity and too small to generate a magnetosphere. It's really not much more habitable than the moon.

[@jeffjames3111]

We don't yet know if the gravity level will be too low. And yes, it is a fixeruper of a planet. I don't see a better option, O'Neill cylinders are decades off.

[@kentamccarter9580]

Yes I would love to live aboard a space station as long as it generated it's own gravity😅😊❤

[@simonallan9941]

Yes maybe artificial intelligence has the answer, but I think it would be easy enough to make a centrifugal gravity that would be variable enough to change for the adjustment to the surface of Mars, but then continue the earth's gravity as it orbits Mars, but I don't think two space craft on a long cable will be stable enough, but it would be worth a try, I definitely wouldn't be ready for that kind of journey without it in some form, an outer ring with more than two starship attached would be better and more controllable for rotation speeds and gravity strength 💪

[@allansteveni5064]

Looking out the window spinning at any speed will be problematic. Seeing the stars zooming past you where you are not able to fix your vision on a static spot will be a nightmare!!!

[@grlcowan]

"Spinning at any speed" includes spinning once a day. A cabin and a propulsion section hanging at opposite ends of an array of ten-percent-loaded Zylon cables can't be that slow, but twenty rotations per hour is feasible. At that speed the stars don't _zoom_ by underfoot. They take a minute and a half. It's not ideal, but you can always take the elevator up to the low-_g_ docking hub and, from there, slow yourself down to zero rotations per hour.

[@paulpena5040]

Keep in mind it's not actually gravity it's the centrifugal force which merely IMITATES gravity. Not the same thing. In gravity, all objects fall at the same rate regardless of their mass, while in artificial gravity, the apparent force varies with the distance from the center of rotation. So as you go close to the center you will start to weigh less and as you go to the extremeties you will start to weigh more. Additionally, the sensation of gravity created through rotation can induce Coriolis effects, which can affect motion and perception in the rotating environment. I think they should do it but it won't be like Star Trek.

[@jeffluman3636]

The real reason they can "prance around" in movies, is to make filming more feasable. Movies are about telling a story in a visually pleasing way, not scientific accuracy.

[@SMunro]

4:50 Did you say The spinning space station would create artificial intelligence?

[@crippledcracker4412]

Yes. Yes he did. Just from spinning the space craft, it would produce Artificial Intelligence. Thats absolutely amazing, to me. I wonder if it would work on people likewise. Because I know some people who could benefit from creating some extra artificial intelligence.

[@jacecamedon8965]

absolutely adore this concept + the fact that any windows for you will be on the floor. how cool is that? terrifying for some and probably dangerous if you go beyond where the space station is located (still within earth's magnetosphere catching some of the space radiation) but still incredibly awesome.

[@paulj.thaddaios]

Only what if all of that centripetal force snaps that truss and the ships go flying? I guess they can ignite engines and rendezvous again. Also how exactly will the apparatus adjust its trajectory?

[@manuelcaycedo561]

What if u didn’t use two starships? Just one and an object of equal weight. Or for larger missions use 2 but doesn’t have to be every time

[@joshuamoore24_7]

Maybe something's that replicates the moon or other gravity causing objects. The whole earth spins and the moon spins around it. Maybe if the space station was moving with earth just as fast in a rotational orbit it would cause gravity.

[@ArcanusLibero]

It is just another obstacle that humanity will overcome.