Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:20:58 UTC No. 16124595

>>16124589
Yeah, read about how the Hubble Space Telescope uses rotating weights to move.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/observatory/design/pointing-control

Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:23:15 UTC No. 16124596

but muh conservation of angular momentum
you'll just make the ship start spinning

Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:28:12 UTC No. 16124606

>>16124595
wow cool i thought it was just used for rotating things but not moving linearly

though it seems that the velocity is capped? i thought itd be possible to accelerate to high speeds

Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:30:11 UTC No. 16124611

>>16124596
in which direction would it spin? i thought if id take two spinning weights and made them spin in opposite directions like in the OP pic it would cancel out the spin

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:05:51 UTC No. 16125023

>>16124606
>i thought itd be possible to accelerate to high speeds
Fucking nope.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:20:28 UTC No. 16125088

>>>/sci/sfg/

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:29:21 UTC No. 16125094

>>16124606
you need to "grab" on something to move through space. atm we grab on matter and throw it the opposite side of where we want to go to. not loosing mass for deltaV would be a gamechanger.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 05:52:32 UTC No. 16125156

They called me crazy as I claimed the rig will lean on the right as the engine spins another direction. Who was in wrong here?

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:02:07 UTC No. 16125421

>>16125094
but how does the hubble move linearly then? it seems that if one rotates some aligned flywheels just the right way, then angular momentum becomes linear momentum, or am I still misunderstanding something? where do we grab here, and what do we throw to the opposite side?

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:05:05 UTC No. 16125424

>>16125421
>>16125156

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:32:34 UTC No. 16125512

>>16124606
it works for rotation but not for translatory motion

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:30:26 UTC No. 16125559

>>16125156
>engine spin
you mean the crank shaft?

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:59:34 UTC No. 16125595

>>16124589
Yes but you only gain back what you spent on accelerating the weights in the first place.

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:28:50 UTC No. 16125725

>>16125595
how do you mean that? i thought converting angular in linear velocity is already something special

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:37:19 UTC No. 16125863

>>16124606
retard