eli5: why can’t we create artificial gravity on space crafts by accelerating at 9.8 m/s

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eli5: why can’t we create artificial gravity on space crafts by accelerating at 9.8 m/s

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The key is on the “accelerating” part. We would need infinite amounts of fuel to keep accelerating indefinitely, plus eventually the spaceship would eventually reach escape velocity so it would stop orbiting the earth or whatever it is that it was supposed to be orbiting and we’d lose it

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