China is out here inventing cool new shit like every day while I’m sitting here watching my president post AI videos of medbeds. Fucking hell man.
It can be harnessed for frontier research spanning deep-ocean and deep-Earth resources extraction, disaster mitigation and prevention, underground waste disposal, and the synthesis of new materials.
oh fuck, we dont need to dig a hole to china, theyre coming for us!
The synthesis of new materials part is especially exciting. Usually in chemistry the influence of gravity is both low and constant. A big installation where you could run a synthesis in high gravity could yield different results from one running in regular gravity.
That is potentially a whole field that remains pretty much unexplored in science so far (afaik)
Spin me right round, baby, right round
Like a world record baby, right round, round round
but at what cost?
China on Monday launched the world’s largest centrifuge by capacity, which can generate 300 times Earth’s gravity and accommodate loads of up to 20 tonnes.
CHIEF, by contrast, is engineered to sustain accelerations of up to 1,500G, according to its designers.
Those are both impressive numbers but they’re also very different numbers.
300*1G = 1,500G
Anyone good at math, can you help me balance my equation?
All jokes aside, I’m fairly sure the 1500G is its design load, meaning the structures are strong enough to withstand those forces and loads, but the centrifuge only rotates such that the materials within the container experience a max of 300G.
A 5x Safety Factor is pretty intense, but I’m guessing that these aren’t as directly related as the article makes it sound. Maybe like the forces on the arm towards the center need to withstand forces equivalent to 1,500G in order for the container to experience 300G accelerations.
I’m guessing it’s one part lost in translation and one part journalists not being very good at reporting technical details in general
Definitely, scientific articles like these are more fun to read without thinking too deeply, because science communication (as a system, not angry at Scientists or whatever) is actually kinda shit when you start thinking about the information deeper than surface level
I can imagine a scientist explaining how this machine works in enthusiastic detail to some journalist who nodded along and then wrote down that the machine does 300G and also 1500G.
Maybe it can do 300G with a 20t payload or 1500G with a 4t payload?
Definitely a logical conclusion. F=ma is really hard for some to understand lol
personally I think that’s too much gravity
:vinny-speen:
Certainly a sick as all hell name.
