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Did you see what science just did for ths guy?

http://www.wimp.com/repairdent/
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experiment in gyroscopic stability....

IN SPACE!!!!!

http://www.wimp.com/cdplayer/
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That's a cool dent trick. Makes sense.
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Why is glass transparent?

http://www.wimp.com/glasstransparent/

The sad link pointed out by the video below.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question404.htm


THANKS SCIENCE!

YAY!
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http://www.wimp.com/lightbulb/

I have been looking at solar power alternatives to a lot of the energy being wasted, and this is an interesting one.
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How did this happen?

http://www.wimp.com/onlyindia/

Its a goofy exploit of an understanding that will someday help us live in space, and create an approximation of gravity when our distant progeny drift between the stars.
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That would take the boredom out of those long periods doing nothing. They would obviously use electric cars in the space ships because gas exhaust would be too dangerous.
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That would be interesting, but i wasnt talking about joy riding around the space ship, i meant that using centrifugal force to generate an approximation of gravity (among other techniques) would be an important part of living in space.
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:D - I was just messing with you. Actually, you are correct that, for the continued health of extended mission crews, a replacement for gravity would be necessary yet possibly unachievable. Without debating exactly what the minimum requirements are, to provide the force (~1-G) necessary without scrambling the crew's inner ear at a comfortable RPM, those ships would need to be quite large. This was proven early in the space programs.

There's been quite a bit of research on human adaptation to rotation. They established the “Comfort Zone” was about 1.0-RPM, where even highly susceptible subjects were symptom free, or nearly so.

So, if I calculated this right, the diameter needed to achieve 1.0G at 1RPM nearly 1600 meters, plenty of room to drive a car.
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