>CHIEF1900 possesses a capacity of 1,900 g-tonnes, surpassing the previous world record held by its predecessor, the CHIEF1300, and dwarfing the 1,200 g-tonne centrifuge operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. To put it in perspective, while a standard household washing machine generates about 2g of force during a spin cycle, this machine can subject multi-tonne samples to forces 100 times greater than Earth’s gravity.
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>By utilizing hypergravity, researchers can manipulate the laws of scale. For instance, to test the structural integrity of a 300-meter-tall dam, engineers can spin a three-meter scale model at 100g, which can replicate the internal stresses the full-sized structure would face, allowing for the observation of potential failure points.
Mr_Coastliner on
Finally, my dream of becoming Super Saiyan has become a reality!
TheoremaEgregium on
“A device designed to compress space and time”
The article tries hard to make it sound like SciFi magic, but it’s a centrifuge, not a Tardis.
PhasmaFelis on
What the fuck is a “g-tonne”? I can’t find it anywhere except in references to this article and things that are actually “g/tonne”.
“Hypergravity”? Okay, apparently that means any situation where you perceive more than one g of gravity. The spinny saucer ride at the state fair has “hypergravity.” So does a dad spinning a little kid at arm’s length.
“A device designed to compress space and time.” Just fuck all the way off.
This is a centrifuge. It’s quite a nice centrifuge! Very well-engineered! Still just a centrifuge! Stop talking like it’s something out of Star Trek!
NeonTrigger on
By their logic, I just made a hyper gravity machine in my office by spinning in my chair really fast. Weeee!
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>CHIEF1900 possesses a capacity of 1,900 g-tonnes, surpassing the previous world record held by its predecessor, the CHIEF1300, and dwarfing the 1,200 g-tonne centrifuge operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. To put it in perspective, while a standard household washing machine generates about 2g of force during a spin cycle, this machine can subject multi-tonne samples to forces 100 times greater than Earth’s gravity.
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>By utilizing hypergravity, researchers can manipulate the laws of scale. For instance, to test the structural integrity of a 300-meter-tall dam, engineers can spin a three-meter scale model at 100g, which can replicate the internal stresses the full-sized structure would face, allowing for the observation of potential failure points.
Finally, my dream of becoming Super Saiyan has become a reality!
“A device designed to compress space and time”
The article tries hard to make it sound like SciFi magic, but it’s a centrifuge, not a Tardis.
What the fuck is a “g-tonne”? I can’t find it anywhere except in references to this article and things that are actually “g/tonne”.
“Hypergravity”? Okay, apparently that means any situation where you perceive more than one g of gravity. The spinny saucer ride at the state fair has “hypergravity.” So does a dad spinning a little kid at arm’s length.
“A device designed to compress space and time.” Just fuck all the way off.
This is a centrifuge. It’s quite a nice centrifuge! Very well-engineered! Still just a centrifuge! Stop talking like it’s something out of Star Trek!
By their logic, I just made a hyper gravity machine in my office by spinning in my chair really fast. Weeee!