Ariel Ekblaw

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.

Ultimately, it is a ring of cylinders that then gets spun.

That's the idea.

You do have to transit, and so we can't completely remove the cross-coupling effects.

If you're climbing towards the center, maybe the docking center of the ring, you're going to go from normal gravity to gradually floating.

But you can do a ladder.

You can do ergonomic techniques to help get the humans up there.

Between friends, between moments, one moment to the next.

It turns out it's tricky to basically have the human experience these gradient shifts.

You really want to, when you go into zero G. How do you know that?