Spike Spiegel
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I was thinking about artificial gravity on a spacecraft, particularly a spinning section, and how to deal with pressurizing it. When the entire craft is spun (or a craft with 2 tethered sections that tumbles), no big deal. It's sealed anyway. Same thing when you've got a centrifuge that's contained within the pressurized area of the ship, like the Discovery from the movie 2001.
When you want to use a centrifuge that spins around the axis of a ship that doesn't otherwise rotate (such as the Leonov, the Arrow from DanSteph, and countless other sci-fi movies and series), how the heck do you pressurize the transition area between rotating and non-rotating sections?
When you want to use a centrifuge that spins around the axis of a ship that doesn't otherwise rotate (such as the Leonov, the Arrow from DanSteph, and countless other sci-fi movies and series), how the heck do you pressurize the transition area between rotating and non-rotating sections?