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Are rotating stations realistic ?
This year (2010) the russians will send their Leonov ship to Jupiter to
recover the Discovery ship (the one with HAL in it). This ship appears to have a fixed spinal structure, and a rotating structure at about midship. Babylon 5, to be built in the 23rd century, will have a rotating central cylinder, but a fixed structure that will hold solar arrays for instance. Are such structures realistic ? Is it possible to maintain proper attitude/orientation of the fixed structure attached to a rotating one ? Are airtight rotating joints allowing movement from pressurized rotating living space to fixed living space possible ? More importantly, is it realistic to have a smoothly rotating structure despite imperfect mass distribution in the rotating structrure ? In a Babylon 5 scenario, an imbalance at just one end of the cylinder would have very interesting side effects on the whole structure. Or is balance easily achievable with some accelerometres couples to powerful water pumps to shift counterweights quickly enough to make such imbalances imperceptible to occupants ? |
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