The inconvenience of weightlessness is easy to remove by turning the ship. Here are just a new problem appears: the Coriolis force makes its own rules in a familiar environment. Thrown object refers to the side, hand outstretched sharply to the button itself is deflected to the side. And daily experience leads a person.
Fiction, describing the spinning spaceships and orbital stations, or designs in which only rotates the part where the astronauts live, do not think about the Coriolis force. Indeed, in everyday life we do not notice it.
But in the cockpit, rotating at a speed of, say, ten to twenty revolutions per minute, the Coriolis force will significantly influence what is happening.
What if the adaptation to this environment would be no better than adapting to zero gravity? Can this device be robust enough to guarantee the astronauts could quickly perform the necessary surgery?
Fiction, describing the spinning spaceships and orbital stations, or designs in which only rotates the part where the astronauts live, do not think about the Coriolis force. Indeed, in everyday life we do not notice it.
But in the cockpit, rotating at a speed of, say, ten to twenty revolutions per minute, the Coriolis force will significantly influence what is happening.
What if the adaptation to this environment would be no better than adapting to zero gravity? Can this device be robust enough to guarantee the astronauts could quickly perform the necessary surgery?
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