3220: Rotational Gravity - Revision history

27.96.196.236: /* Explanation */ Insert {{cn}} tag where citation is obviously [not?] needed.

2026-03-20T23:47:36Z

‎Explanation: Insert {{cn}} tag where citation is obviously [not?] needed.

GSLikesCats307 at 12:54, 19 March 2026

2026-03-19T12:54:43Z

BunsenH: /* Explanation */ YORP effect

2026-03-18T23:43:19Z

‎Explanation: YORP effect

82.132.238.25: /* Explanation */ It can spin up and/or down, and its how the "cooling light" emits, per shape, after being more constantly heated. (Rubbish explanation, but there's a link to follow.)

2026-03-18T16:27:25Z

‎Explanation: It can spin up and/or down, and its how the "cooling light" emits, per shape, after being more constantly heated. (Rubbish explanation, but there's a link to follow.)

BunsenH: /* Explanation */ outer space is a drag

2026-03-18T13:57:49Z

‎Explanation: outer space is a drag

82.13.184.33: /* Explanation */

2026-03-18T09:37:32Z

‎Explanation

82.13.184.33: /* Explanation */

2026-03-18T09:32:39Z

‎Explanation

81.179.199.253: /* Explanation */ Noting that we don't know what the Gs were for the ship-loop. Commented in a 'brief' summary (tear-drop-shaped loops can smooth out the forces), but not sure if it's strictly necessary to go into it all.

2026-03-17T22:36:00Z

‎Explanation: Noting that we don't know what the Gs were for the ship-loop. Commented in a 'brief' summary (tear-drop-shaped loops can smooth out the forces), but not sure if it's strictly necessary to go into it all.

76.90.209.34: /* Explanation */ Added citation to Intact Stability Code of IMO

2026-03-17T22:09:45Z

‎Explanation: Added citation to Intact Stability Code of IMO

DKMell: cn and some fixup

2026-03-17T19:38:13Z

cn and some fixup

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 [[Cueball]] at first appears to be describing his experience operating a spaceship, creating {{w|Artificial_gravity#Centrifugal_force|artificial gravity by rotating the ship}} so as to preserve the passengers' muscle mass.
-However, the caption to the panel indicates that the "ship" Cueball was operating was a cruise ship, not a spaceship. Since cruise ships that travel upon the seas and oceans of the Earth experience the same gravity that they would experience at sea level on land, there is no need for "artificial gravity" aboard a cruise ship.
+However, the caption to the panel indicates that the "ship" Cueball was operating was a cruise ship, not a spaceship. Since cruise ships that travel upon the seas and oceans of the Earth experience the same gravity that they would experience at sea level on land, there is no need for "artificial gravity" aboard a cruise ship.{{cn}}
 Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking, given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them [https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/ShipDesignAndStability-default.aspx#:~:text=Intact%20Stability%20Code,75(69)). right-side-up] via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous force to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does. (If they are in orbit, they do experience a ''very small'' amount of drag from effects such as tidal forces, which slowly reduce their rotation rates until their rotation is synchronized with their orbital period. There's also a potential {{w|YORP effect|effect on rotation}} caused by light received from any light sources; this, too, is minuscule.)

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	Low-gravity environments can cause humans and other animals to lose muscle mass, a serious problem for people staying for extended periods on the {{w\|International Space Station}}.		Low-gravity environments can cause humans and other animals to lose muscle mass, a serious problem for people staying for extended periods on the {{w\|International Space Station}}.

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 However, the caption to the panel indicates that the "ship" Cueball was operating was a cruise ship, not a spaceship. Since cruise ships that travel upon the seas and oceans of the Earth experience the same gravity that they would experience at sea level on land, there is no need for "artificial gravity" aboard a cruise ship.
-Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking, given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them [https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/ShipDesignAndStability-default.aspx#:~:text=Intact%20Stability%20Code,75(69)). right-side-up] via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous force to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does. (If they are in orbit, they do experience a ''very small'' amount of drag from effects such as tidal forces, which slowly reduce their rotation rates until their rotation is synchronized with their orbital period. There's also a potential {{w|effect on rotation}} based on differential heating and cooling as it spins.)
+Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking, given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them [https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/ShipDesignAndStability-default.aspx#:~:text=Intact%20Stability%20Code,75(69)). right-side-up] via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous force to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does. (If they are in orbit, they do experience a ''very small'' amount of drag from effects such as tidal forces, which slowly reduce their rotation rates until their rotation is synchronized with their orbital period. There's also a potential {{w|YORP effect|effect on rotation}} caused by light received from any light sources; this, too, is minuscule.)
 The title text references the earlier comic [[2935: Ocean Loop]], where Cueball made a loop-the-loop water slide like {{w|Action_Park#Cannonball_Loop|Action Park's Cannonball Loop}}, but for cruise ships, and was also fired as a result. This is thus the second comic where Cueball has been fired by a cruise line for his hazardous actions. In the first comic he similarly complains about the decision of the cruise line in the title text. Such loops for people can subject riders to [https://www.wired.com/2012/04/g-forces-in-a-looping-water-slide/ over 10g] of acceleration, but it's unknown exactly how much the ship-sized one would impart<!-- (loops need to impart sufficiently more than 1g upward, at the slowest part at top of the loop, to counteract gravity, which means the peak is going to be in excess of 2g at the start-/end-of-loop transitions on a circular route) -->. Cueball seems to think that since his new idea is less bad than the original one, it should have been acceptable, which implies that he has not understood how catastrophically bad that first proposal was.

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 However, the caption to the panel indicates that the "ship" Cueball was operating was a cruise ship, not a spaceship. Since cruise ships that travel upon the seas and oceans of the Earth experience the same gravity that they would experience at sea level on land, there is no need for "artificial gravity" aboard a cruise ship.
-Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking, given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them [https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/ShipDesignAndStability-default.aspx#:~:text=Intact%20Stability%20Code,75(69)). right-side-up] via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous force to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does. (If they are in orbit, they do experience a ''very small'' amount of drag from effects such as tidal forces, which slowly reduce their rotation rates until their rotation is synchronized with their orbital period. There's also a minuscule slowing effect on rotation based on differential light pressure relative to any light sources.)
+Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking, given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them [https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/ShipDesignAndStability-default.aspx#:~:text=Intact%20Stability%20Code,75(69)). right-side-up] via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous force to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does. (If they are in orbit, they do experience a ''very small'' amount of drag from effects such as tidal forces, which slowly reduce their rotation rates until their rotation is synchronized with their orbital period. There's also a potential {{w|effect on rotation}} based on differential heating and cooling as it spins.)
 The title text references the earlier comic [[2935: Ocean Loop]], where Cueball made a loop-the-loop water slide like {{w|Action_Park#Cannonball_Loop|Action Park's Cannonball Loop}}, but for cruise ships, and was also fired as a result. This is thus the second comic where Cueball has been fired by a cruise line for his hazardous actions. In the first comic he similarly complains about the decision of the cruise line in the title text. Such loops for people can subject riders to [https://www.wired.com/2012/04/g-forces-in-a-looping-water-slide/ over 10g] of acceleration, but it's unknown exactly how much the ship-sized one would impart<!-- (loops need to impart sufficiently more than 1g upward, at the slowest part at top of the loop, to counteract gravity, which means the peak is going to be in excess of 2g at the start-/end-of-loop transitions on a circular route) -->. Cueball seems to think that since his new idea is less bad than the original one, it should have been acceptable, which implies that he has not understood how catastrophically bad that first proposal was.

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 However, the caption to the panel indicates that the "ship" Cueball was operating was a cruise ship, not a spaceship. Since cruise ships that travel upon the seas and oceans of the Earth experience the same gravity that they would experience at sea level on land, there is no need for "artificial gravity" aboard a cruise ship.
-Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking, given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them [https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/ShipDesignAndStability-default.aspx#:~:text=Intact%20Stability%20Code,75(69)). right-side-up] via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous acceleration to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does.
+Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking, given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them [https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/ShipDesignAndStability-default.aspx#:~:text=Intact%20Stability%20Code,75(69)). right-side-up] via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous force to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does. (If they are in orbit, they do experience a ''very small'' amount of drag from effects such as tidal forces, which slowly reduce their rotation rates until their rotation is synchronized with their orbital period. There's also a minuscule slowing effect on rotation based on differential light pressure relative to any light sources.)
 The title text references the earlier comic [[2935: Ocean Loop]], where Cueball made a loop-the-loop water slide like {{w|Action_Park#Cannonball_Loop|Action Park's Cannonball Loop}}, but for cruise ships, and was also fired as a result. This is thus the second comic where Cueball has been fired by a cruise line for his hazardous actions. In the first comic he similarly complains about the decision of the cruise line in the title text. Such loops for people can subject riders to [https://www.wired.com/2012/04/g-forces-in-a-looping-water-slide/ over 10g] of acceleration, but it's unknown exactly how much the ship-sized one would impart<!-- (loops need to impart sufficiently more than 1g upward, at the slowest part at top of the loop, to counteract gravity, which means the peak is going to be in excess of 2g at the start-/end-of-loop transitions on a circular route) -->. Cueball seems to think that since his new idea is less bad than the original one, it should have been acceptable, which implies that he has not understood how catastrophically bad that first proposal was.

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 Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking, given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them [https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/ShipDesignAndStability-default.aspx#:~:text=Intact%20Stability%20Code,75(69)). right-side-up] via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous acceleration to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does.
-The title text references the earlier comic [[2935: Ocean Loop]], where Cueball made a loop-the-loop water slide like {{w|Action_Park#Cannonball_Loop|Action Park's Cannonball Loop}}, but for cruise ships. Such loops for people can subject riders to [https://www.wired.com/2012/04/g-forces-in-a-looping-water-slide/ over 10g] of acceleration, but it's unknown exactly how much the ship-sized one would impart<!-- (loops need to impart sufficiently more than 1g upward, at the slowest part at top of the loop, to counteract gravity, which means the peak is going to be in excess of 2g at the start-/end-of-loop transitions on a circular route) -->. Cueball complains about being fired, and says he does not understand why, since "the peak acceleration for passengers was WAY lower than in the giant-waterslide-loop-the-loop incident the other cruise line fired me for." This is thus the second comic where Cueball has been fired by a cruise line for his hazardous actions. In the first comic he similarly complains about the decision of the cruise line in the title text.
+The title text references the earlier comic [[2935: Ocean Loop]], where Cueball made a loop-the-loop water slide like {{w|Action_Park#Cannonball_Loop|Action Park's Cannonball Loop}}, but for cruise ships, and was also fired as a result. This is thus the second comic where Cueball has been fired by a cruise line for his hazardous actions. In the first comic he similarly complains about the decision of the cruise line in the title text. Such loops for people can subject riders to [https://www.wired.com/2012/04/g-forces-in-a-looping-water-slide/ over 10g] of acceleration, but it's unknown exactly how much the ship-sized one would impart<!-- (loops need to impart sufficiently more than 1g upward, at the slowest part at top of the loop, to counteract gravity, which means the peak is going to be in excess of 2g at the start-/end-of-loop transitions on a circular route) -->. Cueball seems to think that since his new idea is less bad than the original one, it should have been acceptable, which implies that he has not understood how catastrophically bad that first proposal was.
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 However, the caption to the panel indicates that the "ship" Cueball was operating was a cruise ship, not a spaceship. Since cruise ships that travel upon the seas and oceans of the Earth experience the same gravity that they would experience at sea level on land, there is no need for "artificial gravity" aboard a cruise ship.
-Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them right-side-up,{{cn}} via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous acceleration to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does.
+Furthermore, Cueball's rotation of the ship along its longitudinal axis would involve capsizing the ship (and then righting it again). This would likely result in many people aboard drowning if not the outright sinking of the vessel. Anything on the outside of the ship that wasn't firmly attached would be lost, by the combination of drag from the water and being flung away by the centrifugal force. There's no indication of ''how'' the rotation would be created, which would be a significant undertaking given that cruise ships are generally built with some priority given to keeping them [https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/ShipDesignAndStability-default.aspx#:~:text=Intact%20Stability%20Code,75(69)). right-side-up] via things like concentrations of mass at the bottom of the hull. In contrast, objects in outer space do not need continuous acceleration to continue rotating because they don't have to overcome significant drag from their environment in the way that a cruise ship partially immersed in water does.
 The title text references the earlier comic [[2935: Ocean Loop]], where Cueball made a loop-the-loop water slide like {{w|Action_Park#Cannonball_Loop|Action Park's Cannonball Loop}}, but for cruise ships. Such loops for people can subject riders to [https://www.wired.com/2012/04/g-forces-in-a-looping-water-slide/ over 10g] of acceleration. Cueball complains about being fired, and says he does not understand why, since "the peak acceleration for passengers was WAY lower than in the giant-waterslide-loop-the-loop incident the other cruise line fired me for." This is thus the second comic where Cueball has been fired by a cruise line for his hazardous actions. In the first comic he similarly complains about the decision of the cruise line in the title text.