{"id":93156,"date":"2019-07-05T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/this-artificial-gravity-machine-is-right-out-of-2001-a-space-odyssey"},"modified":"2019-07-05T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:43:51","slug":"this-artificial-gravity-machine-is-right-out-of-2001-a-space-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/this-artificial-gravity-machine-is-right-out-of-2001-a-space-odyssey","title":{"rendered":"This artificial gravity machine is right out of 2001: A Space Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G0AworhlfHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know that spherical ship from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/ai-inspired-by-the-lethal-hal-9000-from-2001-a-space-odyssey-kept-virtual-astronauts-alive\"><em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em><\/a> that generated its own gravity by spinning around in the cosmic void? We\u2019re not there yet, but we\u2019re getting closer.<\/p>\n<p>Microgravity can be detrimental for the human body, because our species just wasn\u2019t made to survive in space without high-tech help. Now aerospace engineer Torin Clark and his team from CU Boulder are turning the artificial gravity tech from movies like <em>2001<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/science-behind-the-fiction-nasa-edges-closer-to-manned-mars-missions\"><em>The Martian<\/em><\/a> into a reality. While an entire ship that makes its own gravity is still light-years away, the team has managed to design a revolving contraption that could save astronauts from too much zero-G exposure.<\/p>\n<p>On future space stations, these revolving machines designed by Clark and his team could occupy their own rooms, which would be ideal for astronaut time-outs. It\u2019s kind of like a space spa \u2014 astronauts could spend several hours in these rooms recharging from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/want-185k-nasa-will-give-it-to-you-for-lying-in-bed\">the effects of microgravity<\/a>. If these machines can eventually prove that they hold up somewhere like the ISS, they could be the answer to deep space missions that take us to Mars and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that spherical ship from 2001: A Space Odyssey that generated its own gravity by spinning around in the cosmic void? We\u2019re not there yet, but we\u2019re getting closer. Microgravity can be detrimental for the human body, because our species just wasn\u2019t made to survive in space without high-tech help. Now aerospace engineer Torin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}