Also, the artificial gravity would taper off to nothing at the center. On the space station, the spinning would tend to throw the astronauts down the station's spoke arms and back onto the shuttle. The spinning motion creates an artificial gravity, an effective outward-pushing force. Think of spinning rides at the amusement park. There's another, more fundamental, problem: the artificial gravity points in the wrong direction. That makes it impossible to dock it'd be like trying to drive a car on ice-covered roads into a spinning parking garage. Assuming the space station's spoke arms (where the shuttles dock) are about 50 feet long, it spins at 8 revolutions a minute. To simulate gravity, the cosmonaut aboard the space station fires a few rockets to put the space station into the spin. It is unlikely that NASA would fit a Gatling-Gun on a drilling platform.There are chemical lasers that would be much more effective and certainly lighter in weight should a mission call for the option of blasting one's way through an obstacle.Įn route to the asteroid, the two space shuttles head to the Russian space station to refuel. Additionally, the barrels would have been cold-soaked to something close to -273° Celcius when the spinning asteroid was pointed away from the Sun, the heat generated by the rapid fire rate (combined with the friction of the slugs passing through the barrels) would certainly cause the frigid barrels to shatter like glass.

When the significantly decreased gravity of the asteroid is factored into consideration, at the very least the vehicle should have rocketed backwards or flipped upside down. The vehicle carrying the cannon does not buck upwards or backwards at all. Steve Buscemi opens fire with what appears to be a variant of a General Electric GAU-8/A Gatling Gun which has an effective recoil of approximately 10,000 pounds-force (45 kN) per round discharge of armor-piercing ammunition.

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