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I did that back when there where no magnetic boots, it was way better, it literally pushed you feet first to the ground, it was super awesome!

This is your mandatory Interstellar reference comment

@AndrewmanGaming You should try building the Endurance from the film "Interstellar". It's got the same spinning mechanism, plus living quarters and 4 detachable landing craft. Give it a go!

Jaja It is not that you go back down because the gravity, it is that the section of the spinning ship comes to you because it is moving!

This video is legit just you building a space station that can spin, wow so cool XD

If you looked at the interface at the bottom left, the Jetpack symbol becomes a magnetic boots symbol when you stand on something. So pressing X would turn off the magnetic boots.

This has actually been possible for a while now. The problem though is the character will drift as the spaceship turns, so make sure anything you build has safety railings if you want to be able to go AFK.

I'm so glad that Space Busters is back!

You should try building a colony like from Mobile Suit Gundam in the UC 0079, that would be awesome if you could build space colonies like that. lol

if you want to trick the mag boots add a grav gen and have it pull sideways at low strength

Can't wait to make an entire base based on this concept

This is very cool I’m gonna have to try it

If you make a waaay larger ring you wont have to spin it as fast, and the rotation affect wont be nearly as obvious

Press x on a bloc and look where the necklace is and web you are on a bloc in space the manic bots are on

13:25 isnt 110 m/s the speed limit on space engineers?

Some how... This made me feel nauseous without actually being there. ESPECIALLY when you maxed the spin

"go outside, throw a rock up, and watch it come back down." wait, won't that result on a concussion?

You should try to speed up earth's spin

So you searched for a mod that gets rid of mag boots and you simply searches online if there is a way to disable them, right?

you can turn off the boots just press x when in space on a floor

Isnt there gravity generators now?

Now someone has to build a Halo ring.

We could calculate with M * V²/R

what the song from between 2:16 and 5:12

Free education! xD

You don't need to jump up and down to know how many g's you generate, all you need is the radius (which, if you built it, shouldn't be too hard), and your tangential velocity (which should be equal to the velocity shown by the game itself). If you know this, your g-force is equal to: g-force = v²/(rg) Where v is your tangential velocity, r is the radius, and g is standard gravity (9.81 m/s²). At around 13:10, we can see that the tangential velocity is v ~103 m/s Judging by how the ship looks, I estimate the outer radius to be ~21 blocks from the COR. Considering every block is 2.5m, this gives us r ~52.5m. This gives us everything we need to calculate the g-forces your character would experience: g = (103 m/s)²/(52.5m * 9.81 m/s²) = 20.599g, or over 20 times the force of gravity on earth. Yes, you'd be dead indeed.

haven't tuned into one of these episodes in a while. Glad I decided to come back, great video!

You can’t navigate it too well because of the coriolis effect. It’s also why, when you jumped, you moved. Look it up, it’s pretty cool.

Love it, Andrew. Now make a pressurized functional spin spacecraft!

Now build the Nauvoo (The Behemoth) from The Expanse, with buildings and atmosphere in it. :D Also: SPIN THE DRUM! (At 960m with 0.75 RPM you'd get 0.3g!)

if you click x when walking on the ground when your boots when turn of/on. You can see it if you look at where the jetpack symbol usually is but only when you are on the ground with no gravity. update: HEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember back in the day when the legendary HOCgaming did his artificial gravity station series in KSP. He kinda had the opposite problem to magnet boots, kerbals just won't walk under non-planetary gravity. So to test it he used a rover and drove around his ring. That could be a good workaround to the magnetboots thing, providing space engineers wheels work that way.

If you attach a gravity generator and set it to the lowest setting, it will turn off your gravity boots

13:10 i mean, 100m/s is no joke Actually, is it like 20g? If it spins once every 2 sec?

that paint picture made me spit out my coffee :D

I think you could've put down a very weak gravity generator (like 0.01g or the minimum it allows) and then the mag boots shouldn't be active anymore. The gravity would be weak enough to not really alter results but the annoying mag boots are gone

This was really cool. I'm getting flashbacks of Interstellar.

Ya dingus. There are supposed to be TWO wheels to counteract the rotation on the main body.

Cen-tre-few-gal that's how you learn to pronounce it at my school few years back

Well, thank you for getting me back into space engineers. You got me into it in the first place and now I am going to play again.

Good video, but it's not quite right. Not that what you did was wrong, in fact you did everything correctly to set it up. It's the analysis that's a bit off, and once again, not your fault. The problem is in the game. At any given time, the game is trying to assign you a point in space as well as a tangent with speed and acceleration. That's how the game knows how to place you within the game and how to place everything around you. So the issue is that reality isn't like that. Sure, you can occupy a point and have a tangent of motion, but you're not locked into an origin... how to explain... okay, so your tangent in the game is rooted at an origin point 0,0 on a graph. Your angle is your direction and the length of the arrow, your velocity and the thickness of the arrow, the force you have in that direction. That's how the game engine works. What the game doesn't do is sync you with the tangent of whatever you happen to be standing on (I mean, it sort of does this with the grav-boots but not quite)... What the game needs is a relative origin rather than a fixed one. To show this using your video, when you were on the blocks and jumped you moved either forwards, backwards or to the side as well as moving upwards. Now normally, this would not happen because your 'origin' would be synced with the block, meaning your velocity relative to the block is the same. You jump on that block, you move up, you come back down on the same block, regardless of how the block itself is moving. So the game is correctly showing centripetal force (centrifugal is the force you feel whereas centripetal is the force applied) but lacking that relative origin for your character, 'real' artificial gravity is not possible in the game. I hope this wasn't too complicated of an explanation...

If you wanted to stop both ships spinning, add gyroscopes to the main ship

There is gravity in space, and you would fall towards the earth if you stopped on the orbit, the reason it feels like there is no gravity is that everything is falling sideways at the same speed, and so nothing is actually falling if you are in the same orbit.

It would be really cool to see someone try and make the ship from Passengers

Another top quality episode Andrew. P.S congrats on 20k

This doesn't just simulate gravity, it also provides a unique circumstance where you have "gravity" (perceived) and mag boots at the same time! Somewhere hiding in the gameplay there's got to be some use case that makes this valuable

I remember back when you could turn mag boots off with M or something.

make a second ring on the spinning red section GO GO GO DUAL RINGS

Not very practical or efficient but it's cool. I wouldn't actually build that except on a megastructure, but it's cool. Middle could be a Factory for your ships.

alongside what was stated in the video, because the earth is rotating, you actually do have some of that sideways velocity you just don't notice it because of just how big Earth is, and how fast you get pulled back to the ground. Also, I am not an expert on this subject so I could have things a little (or a lot) off, that is just my understanding of it.

I love this series of yours :)

This video was my first introduction to space engineers I got the game myself this week

before watching... I think this will work. I have been tossed around by friends rotating their ships near me.

Lol you were like Epstein from the Expanse. Crushed by the gravity of what you created.

That ship looks a lot like Space Station V, the transfer station from 2001, A Space Oddysey, featuring that iconic drawn-out, silent scene of the main character just walking. Interestingly enough, the film that brought this very concept into the mainstream.

Get a bucket of water and spin it around u will see it will stay in the bucket. (if u go fast enough)

I made an updated video where we put some of your artificial gravity suggestions to the test! If you want to see what happens when we turn the mag boots off, attempt to drive a car inside the wheel, or spin the wheel the fastest we can get it to go, check out this video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wtQ6bvaBk3Y.html

Another idea for artificial gravity is kind of like this, You have a moving platform that moves up, therefore since newtons laws (I can't remember which one,) it appears you are falling because of 'gravity'

I wonder if this can be down with an outside frame imparting rotation with wheels?

Just binged this entire series, and holy crap the stuff you do here is insane Creating an elevator through the Earth? Setting gravity to 1,000,000g and casually overflowing the integer limit? *Driving from the Earth to the freaking Moon??* On paper, everything you do here seems dumb, like it would never work. Yet, in practice, somehow you always manage to make it work every time, and I'm just addicted to seeing what you're gonna do next. This is the most entertaining series I've ever seen about just simply exploring physics (or at least, the physics of a game). The presentation, the editing, the ideas, the execution of said ideas, it's just so insane and out of left field that I can't stop watching. I mean seriously, why haven't I heard of you before? Anyways, I absolutely adore this series, and I'll be sure to check out more stuff from you; keep making fantastic content!

Been there, done that. Try a spherical gravity generator at the lowest setting, it will disable your boots. Also try using a station as an anchor instead of a ship. Sadly you slide so weirdly :T i hood they fix that

Everybody gangster until SpaceX makes a Halo

This has inspired me to change my base cruiser's design, I need a living area with this spinning gravity.

Please make a skyhook! We gotta have skyhooks!

omg.... i am sick from only watching the movement xD

So I was doing physics hw and this helped me. is it bad that a guy on youtube explained it better than my teacher?

We did this as a fun thought experiment (fun for kids who are into physics) in my high school physics class. You are on a gravity simulation ring like this. What happens if you jump? We had to make a lot of assumptions, but our best guess is you would actually land in front of where you started if you were to jump straight up. When I say our best guess, I mean the physics teacher. He's the one that did the math to figure out what would happen when we asked the question.

That's so impressive, this game is incredible! Also, thanks for the free lesson on physics, any video where i learn something is a good video.

Don’t you just press x to turn off the boots? That’s how I remembered it.

you can turn the mag boots off in the same way you turn off the jetpack. It's the X key, when the shoes are showing in the bottom left.

You could have also have put on a super weak gravity generator on so the boots would not turn on

Someone make a mode where it recognizes this 9:56

Not to be super obnoxious but centifugal acceleration isn't a thing, i can tolerate you saying centrifugal force but acceration makes me cringe too much, its centipetal acceleration/force. The tendency to fly outwards techniquely is not accelerating just keeping the momentum you orginally had. You are only accelerating when you stay going round the circle, because you need a force applied onto you to stay in a circle. From your point of view it looks like you fly out but in reality your just flying in a straight line.

Clang would be impressed.

The spinning wheel of awesomeness looks like a hat!

There’s a difference between centrifugal and centripetal I think but I don’t know it. I’m pretty sure centrifugal is right for this example.

Does the game interpret this differently if you have an atmosphere in the circular area? That would be an interesting test.

* makes a Space Engineers video * "I don't know how to turn off magnetic boots" Holy shit. Also you obviously have zero idea how the game's systems work. I care too little to explain in detail, but in short, no, your design does not work. Try using your brain for a change to figure out why.

A minor correction. Gravity exists in space. So much so that astronauts aboard the ISS experience about 90% of the gravity we experience at the Earth's surface. If you built a tower all the way up there (408km) and stood on it, you wouldn't feel much lighter. The cause for them floating is due to being in constant "free fall" around Earth. Like an elevator falling down, except it's moving around the planet faster than it descends so the ride seemingly never ends (also inaccurate as the ISS loses 2 km per month on average from atmospheric drag). The truth is, no matter how far you travel, you will always, mathematically speaking, experience Earth's gravity. At a point, it becomes so inferior that you won't come back without some other force acting on you (sphere of influence for the Earth is about 1,500,000 km).

Great demonstration. You wouldn't want that amount of angular velocity to achieve the force you need however. A much better approach would be to dramatically increase the radius of the arms translating the angular velocity. As I recall the centrifugal force calculation is a R squared relationship . I think I once calculated it so that I could get a 1G value(or maybe it was a Mars G value, I forgot :)) at a radius of 700 meters (1.4 Kilometers diameter) moving at just 3 or 4 RPMs. The advantage of high radius / low velocity is its a lot safer. Unlike this demo using high velocity / low radius, which will cause you to experience a much greater force at your feet than at your head. Not a good thing if you'd like to keep blood in your upper body :). However, I was curious if Space engineers actually had this level of physics. Thanks for showing that it indeed seems to :) Now I need to create my own Hermes in SE using this knowledge you just gave me :)

This guy needs a hella more subscribers

Centrifugal is what you kept saying, and someone already a proper pronunciation of the word. What you should have been saying is, 'Centripetal' (sen-trip-it-ol), insert "The more you know" meme here, and I can now fly away using centrifugal force by jumping off a rapidly spinning object. (double science lesson, yeah!)

Spacebusters AND physics lessons in one? Is it my birthday? What did I do to deserve this?

2:12 it's pronounced centrifugal

Checking share inertia tensor craters resistance to the movement of rotors/hinges/pistons. That's why you were getting lower speeds. Use center gravity generators with a very small acceleration to make the magnetic shoes disabled. ... Wow that video made me dizzy a bit. 😅

Is would probably work better if it was larger cause then it could spin at a lower speed and you would feel the spinning less when you jumped

Okay you made up my mind into buying this game up to 80%, aside from me 99% thinking into subbing to you, would you recommend me to buy it now? Maybe wait for an update? Is it worth for a guy that's just into singleplayer mostly? How moddable I this game? Does it even have a modding community?

Since you asked: Centrifugal is pronounced... differently depending on the region. Your pronunciation is fine. Some put more emphasis on the centri, others on the fugal, and yet others, like yourself, on the fu. I've even heard some put the emphasis on cen and gal. It's one of those words with no hard pronunciation rules. Like "garage"!

Three days after asking myself that same question, I get recommended this video from years back. Not sure right now whether I should be concerned that the YT algorithm now reads my thoughts or happy this actually works!

Spinning doesn't push you outward, (its a good trick though) it pulls you in. The normal force of the wall you are up against is the force you feel pushing on you. For example, if you set up a merge block system on the outside of the wheel, and detach it, it won't fly outward from the wheel, it will fly tangentially from the wheel, because it is no longer being held by centripetal force... should have watched the rest of the video before posting this... Your explanation was mostly correct.

How to pronounce the force that forces you to get stuck on the inside of a surface because the thing you are in is turning; CEN-TREE-PEE-TAL www.britannica.com/science/centripetal-acceleration Centrifugal force is the outward force you exert on the body whilst trying to travel in a straight line at constant speed.

Not to nerd out too much but centrifugal force (pronounced centrifigal) isn't a real force. Basically what is happening with centripetal force is that you (or any other object for that matter) wants to stay in the path and velocity that it is currently heading. When an outside opposing force reacts to it, that is the change (the bumping you were experiencing). Same thing happens when you are in a car. Turn left hard and your body reacts to the right as well as the air freshener hanging from your rear view mirror because it intended to stay in the straight line path. Sorry for the nerd out. LOVE your vids. Especially love Space Engineers because I feel they are trying to get the science right. Makes it a grinding game but I guess that's why a lot of people love/hate it. Thanks for indulging me...

RU-vid really likes to unsubscribe me from random channels, and because of that i missed quite a few uploads. THANKS RU-vid!

Love your vid, but centrafugle forces do not exist, they were made up to explain why objects go outwards when in a circular pattern. But when you look into the science properly then you find it's not a thing., instead its something different. Your talking about centripetal acceleration.

IRL our grav is like 9.8mps^2 you're hitting like 100 lmao that would turn any IRL human into scrambled eggs. Very cool

The problem is what you've done here wouldn't work in real life simple because its not enclosed. A system like this in a truly weightless area in space would lead to a lot of people getting bounced around and out of the structure because of no friction, and nothing actually getting pushed (I.E. you have no atmosphere to push around, so all that force is only applying to the machine itself).

I am so excited for Xbox SE, I am stoked to make crazy shit like this. (Pretty sure you press X when you're on the ground to turn) mag-boots off btw

I mean to be honest the Earth kinda does this already but i guess that sort of gravity isn't good enough, so the dominant force of gravity is just the natural one, where mass is just plainly pulled towards other, larger masses Of course on top of that you're not gonna feel that former force very much, it's moving very slowly, so when you jump it doesn't move all that much under you Even despite the fact that you're incredibly far from it's core

Time to build a Orbis Station!

*Interdictor class star destroyer intensifies*