Today we're talking rotational stability and Artificial Gravity! This video has been a long time coming, and not just because it took 47 hours to edit, I took my first pass at this script about a year ago but wasn't sold on the final product. A very busy year later I've finally decided to cut the video down to a (slightly) more simple discussion about rotational stability in the context of artificial gravity. Nevertheless, this ended up being my longest science video ever, and definitely one of the most taxing for my ten-year-old computer.

I think these are some of the best visuals I've done even though they are still fairly simple, but there is still so much to talk about. I did a lot of research for that first draft, including how you can perform maneuvers while spinning, and even a way to jumpstart the rotation using gravity gradient stabilization.

Enjoy!

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Thank you Ryan!

Intro Music: "Tornado" by Wintergatan
This track can be downloaded for free at https://www.wintergatan.net
Free License to use this track in your video can be downloaded at https://www.wintergatan.net
Thank you Martin!

Main Music: Lone Wolf by Dan Lebowitz
Available in the YouTube Audio Library

Outro Music: "Blast" from Bensound.com

(0:00) - Intro
(1:31) - What is Artificial Gravity?
(2:41) - Small Radius AG
(4:44) - Large Radius AG
(5:26) - Single Starship AG
(6:39) - The Rotational Stability Problem!
(8:51) - Multiple Starship AG
(12:05) - What if the Tether Breaks!?
(14:55) - What's the Best Option?
(15:43) - Outro