A train or roller coaster on a slightly tilted circular track would probably do the job. A slight tilt would just move the gravity vector orthogonal to the floor.
A train or roller coaster on a slightly tilted circular track would probably do the job. A slight tilt would just move the gravity vector orthogonal to the floor.
If that combined that with earth’s gravity has to give you 1.1g, that has to be (via the Pythagorean theorem) about 0.2g or 2m/s². Let’s pick r = 100m. Then, v² has to be 20, giving as a velocity of about 16 km/hour. r = 1km would require about 50km/hour.
Sounds doable, until you consider your “put gyms, hotels, swimming pool, living quarters, etc. in it”. That’s a lot of mass and space.
Centrifuges that we put potential astronauts and fighter pilots in are a lot smaller.
On the other hand, there’s the idea of “a massive floating railway, Maglev-style, which will travel along a track with a radius of 2.5 kilometers within an underground vacuum tunnel. The machine will run on excess energy generated from wind and solar, and it can reach speeds up to 2,000 km/h. When the renewable energy production is insufficient, the kinetic energy from the train movement will be reconverted and sent to the grid.” that engineers claim can be built (https://www.greenoptimistic.com/energy-train-mph/). That would hit over 10g and weigh a lot more than that hotel. I can’t find updates, though.
That’s a lot cheaper and for many sports likely would bring the same benefits.
Is that any better than ankle weights? Or wrist, I suppose.
I imagine some texturing on the inside of the enclosure could create small scale surface turbulence that even reduces the minimal friction there.
It would have to be big enough to avoid people getting dizzy, and even then it would still be a factor I think. That said, size/scale is less of a concern on the moon I would argue.
Maybe that doesn't matter.
Running on reliable constant nuclear power, from a safe distance.
Maximum gravity at the tilted edges. Only natural gravity at the center. Enter & exit from a tunnel that connects under the center.
Aside from the challenges of location & distance from Earth, if we can build small mobile cities on water (mega cruise lines) on the untamed ocean in Earth gravity, surely a small stationary spinning platter city in low gravity is possible.
I think humans are going to find out that one g has many uses besides health. Good for a lot of manufacturing too. Gravity is a stabilizer, vertical organizer, anchor. Just as low gravity will have many advantages. Being able to quickly “adjust” gravity, by moving location, will be significant.
Who is doing the adjusting and the moving?
I don't think you'd want to move anything large. You'd build eg your factory in the environment where it's best; and build a second factory in a different environment, instead of moving them around.
However, if you eg making computer chips, you might move those around between different environments, depending on the processing step.
If entire factories needed to "move" up and down in g-forces, they should be in their own variable spin bowls! Not sure what kind of factory that would be.
[0] https://vimeo.com/869858712 also available as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiPmgW21rwY
Or align the axis with the major light source if that is different, like the sun for inner solar system locations, and at least the lighting won't keep moving around.
Not much different from watching scenery go by in a vehicle then.