Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

But for the rotating artificial gravity station, the paper that we just put out is a bunch of cylinders.

And you put the cylinders next to each other in a ring.

And then you spin that ring.

And what sets that moving is you're going to have a bunch of motors, basically.

You're going to have a bunch of traditional mechanized systems moving.

So we have a bunch of balanced ballast.

And the structure that we're doing is we're trying to think about, if you think about like a typical ring, like 2001 Space Odyssey.

In the movie.

We're sci-fi nerds.

is radial.

The dirty little secret about that is if you're a human walking along that ring, you're going to feel different gravity at your feet, which is a lot of weird cross-coupling effects for your vestibular system.

Then we're talking like, yeah, 100 kilometers.

If you could pull off a ring that big, very small, and then you won't feel sick, right?

Because you're spinning, but you're spinning so slow and huge diameter.

How do we do artificial gravity in 10 years and not 100 years?

That massive ring could be 100 years from now.

What do we do in the next 10 years to make it more feasible?

Instead of a ribbon of a ring, that was a great word, we have these cylinder pipes where the gravity level is consistent when you're occupying it.

So you're not changing the gravity from foot to toe.

So it's kind of like changing the geometry a little bit.

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