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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by gorkonsine on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:10PM (#14713991)
Rotating something that size in Mars' gravity is far more difficult that rotating something in space. Clearly, you're far less competent than you think you are.
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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by Retric on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:31AM (#14717601)
We literally already rotate large structures for amusement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolving_restaurant...

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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by monocasa on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:31PM (#14727970)
To be fair, they intentionally rotate slow enough as to have no perceivable g forces.

The example on that list that I had been to most recently is the Westin in Atlanta.

It's 57M in diameter and it's upper floor spins at once every 30 minutes. Plugging that into Mω²r, you end up with 0.0000354084g.

Not exactly the best example.

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