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  • I was using 1g of thrust just to simplify the point. But 1 G of thrust would be what you would want to aim for in a longe range space craft (barring fuel limits). It provides gravity without needing rotating hand.

    If you are traveling from say planet a to planet b, 1 G constant acceleration halfway, flip and 1G acceleration (going backwards) to slowdown keeps your crew under steady gravity without rotating habitats.

    (I read way too many hardcore space sci-fi books)


  • Both options will kill the everyone in the rings because acceleration from the engines provides its own pseudo gravity. The ring would have to spin even faster to keep people from flying around when their part of the ring is pointing towards the node of the craft. And even with that compensation the people on anode would be pushing their brains out as they went from higher g to lower g as they spun

    The rings need to go around the body, not on top


  • Ok so the thrust from the engines )let’s say we are at one g of thrust). That’s going to not work with your rings the way they are.

    You have to think of the engines being “down” and the nose of the craft as “up”

    Your rings should be going around the body of the ship. That way while under thrust the centrifugal force can work with the pseudo gravity provided by acceleration. What you have here would kill people