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 fuel required to sustain 9.8 m/s^2 of acceleration for any practical amount of time would make the rocket way too heavy to lift off. It may be more reasonable to rotate a structure at a constant angular velocity to create artificial gravity via centripetal acceleration.

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