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Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed (www.yahoo.com)
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[โ€“] grue 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to build a whole ring. You just need a boom and a counterweight.

I guess the hard part would be that a truncated-circle-sector-shaped room is more awkward to launch than a rocket-section-shaped one of equivalent usable space. (Also, you need a tube and a ladder down to a docking port at the center of mass, because spaceships can't line up with a target swinging through an arc.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You climb up to the center, not down.