Could You Really Climb the Spinning Ship’s Cable in Stowaway?

Let’s just make it simple: To achieve an artificial gravity of 0.5 g, you’ll need a radius of 450 meters and a spacecraft-to-counterweight distance of twice that (900 meters). Just for fun, the Wikipedia page lists the tether distance at 450 meters. This would give a rotational radius of 225 meters. Using the same angular […]