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Yes, on that one I should have said “within a ship or station”.

But within that domain, my point still stands. We have no plausible way to construct such a ship or station that produces significant pseudo-gravity by rotating. Building such a thing is basically impossible with anything we can manufacture—building a “wheel” that can rotate fast enough and be large enough to not cause wild motion sickness and have the structural integrity to hold enough mass to sustain an ecosystem is beyond our materials science, and would be impossible to lift into space.



> would be impossible to lift into space

Why on earth would you try that?


Exactly, while an interesting exercise, that would be insane!

But built from Lunar/asteroid material ? Sure, you can build 8 by 32 km cylinder from steel with dirt for shielding with that has a standard earth gravity just fine. No exotic materials required:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder




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