M:S affects on weightlessness

[jmarc63]

Here is a link to an article I found about creatig artifical Gs . it goes on to say that there are diffrent mechanics involved in greating artificial Gs depending the size of your arm. weather they be short like potentialy M:S could. to a large centerfuge like nasa has where they can be precise in creating any G they need, where as the smaller ones have less control in precisly obtaining a certin speed. This could effect how M:S operates??

If I recall right M:S' centerfuges' are probably only half the size of the centerfuge in the picture , This could be important in how the ride functions(reliability) and downtime( not operational)

http://huntsville.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://science.nasa.gov/

 

[ToTBellHop]

That article presents a centrifuge that is 58 feet in diameter. Mission: Space will actually be larger. Pardon my math...

There are four seats. Each is probably 2.5 feet wide (for simplicity of numbers). So for all four seats, we come up with 10 feet. Plus, there is an exit to either side, with room to stand--figure another 2.5 feet on each side. 15 feet per capsule. Then we have the space between each capsule--I would figure 8 feet from one capsule to the next--room for people to get through. So we have 23 feet we will allot each capsule (each capsule, in effect, has four feet to either side of open space). We have ten capsules, so a circumference of 230 feet. Circumference=pi*diameter. So the diameter on M:S is about 75 feet. Disney went all out--better than NASA quality.