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If you're going to quote a work of art like 2001, you should get the title right. ;-)
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Suppose engineers built a rotating space station similar to Space Station V from the film 20112001: A Space Odyssey (circa 1968), but with a large sphere, instead of a ring? Could this be rotated or pushed through space in such a way as to give it mostly consistent gravity on all parts of the surface within the sphere?

Suppose engineers built a rotating space station similar to Space Station V from the film 2011: A Space Odyssey, but with a large sphere, instead of a ring? Could this be rotated or pushed through space in such a way as to give it mostly consistent gravity on all parts of the surface within the sphere?

Suppose engineers built a rotating space station similar to Space Station V from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (circa 1968), but with a large sphere, instead of a ring? Could this be rotated or pushed through space in such a way as to give it mostly consistent gravity on all parts of the surface within the sphere?

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Can a rotating-ring space-station design be applied to a rotating sphere?

Suppose engineers built a rotating space station similar to Space Station V from the film 2011: A Space Odyssey, but with a large sphere, instead of a ring? Could this be rotated or pushed through space in such a way as to give it mostly consistent gravity on all parts of the surface within the sphere?