Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "" video.

  1. Read his PhD thesis http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12652 to find out why he was nicknamed “Dr Rendezvous”. Edit: Hey, why the past tense? The guy’s still alive and kicking, you know.
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  2. Stick it in an RTG and get electricity out of it.
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  3. Janus -- two-faced god Epimetheus -- god of hindsight. (The god of foresight was Prometheus. Remember what happened to him?)
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  4. 1:54 That’s automatically arranged by tidal forces, though isn’t it.
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  5. There is also the issue that maintaining such a spin rate requires fuel to be expended. The natural state of such a body is to become tidally locked.
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  6. → Sheldon Robertson OK, so you send some internal mass spinning around one way to try to to spin the station the other way. That works for a while, until it becomes tidally locked again. So you speed up the internal spinning mass, and that restores the spin -- for a while. Then you have to spin it up some more. And more. And more.
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