We all know the pictures of the astronauts on the ISS floating around. We also suspect that a lack of gravity is bad for the body as the muscles go weak and such.
Why don’t spaceships just rotate to cause the effect of artificial gravity through centrifugal forces?
Here is a great video on spin gravity. It covers an important detail that another comment mentions but most over look. Spinning fast enough to create gravity-like centrifugal force causes real dizziness at small diameters. 5 or 6 rpm is about the maximum we can stand.
We just need to breed two or seven generations of humans in tiny ship orbit and they will adapt.
That’s why you split the ship in two and spin the habitation module around the heavier part of the ship¹, connected by a tether, as in Project Hail Mary (which the video says is still too fast… so just make the tether longer).
Yeah, a good idea. You run into some material strength issues, but I think this is the way.