Gravity machines

[branketra]

In the manga and anime Dragonball (anime is Dragonball Z), several of the characters trained in places where the gravity was anywhere from 10 times earth's gravity to 450 times. Two characters trained in space shuttles using machines that could increase of decrease the gravity in the ship.

I wanted to know if any technology that can multiply gravity in a closed area exists.

 

[drwayne]

Depends on what your requirements are. Clearly a centrifuge could be used.

 

[branketra]

I guess the room needs to be as big as the one in these videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCiiMk0G ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZTzIkp ... re=related
I guess that's 30 or forty feet high and as big as a floor of a surburban home. Sorry if you don't like the music, I just used the video because it kinda shows the size. The second one doesn't have any sound.
Oh, and I guess 10 times earth's gravity would be a good enough starting max.

 

[mj1]

In the manga and anime Dragonball (anime is Dragonball Z), several of the characters trained in places where the gravity was anywhere from 10 times earth's gravity to 450 times. Two characters trained in space shuttles using machines that could increase of decrease the gravity in the ship.

I wanted to know if any technology that can multiply gravity in a closed area exists.

There was an idea I saw for sending men to Mars where they had a ship that was tethered to a counterweight and the ship simply rotated around the counterweight creating gravity. A real simple and doable idea.

 

[yevaud]

In the manga and anime Dragonball (anime is Dragonball Z), several of the characters trained in places where the gravity was anywhere from 10 times earth's gravity to 450 times. Two characters trained in space shuttles using machines that could increase of decrease the gravity in the ship.

I wanted to know if any technology that can multiply gravity in a closed area exists.

At anything over 10 G's, serious cell and cardiac issues will occur; at 25 G's, the human heart simply...stops.

 

[Mee_n_Mac]

In the manga and anime Dragonball (anime is Dragonball Z), several of the characters trained in places where the gravity was anywhere from 10 times earth's gravity to 450 times. Two characters trained in space shuttles using machines that could increase of decrease the gravity in the ship.

I wanted to know if any technology that can multiply gravity in a closed area exists.

At anything over 10 G's, serious cell and cardiac issues will occur; at 25 G's, the human heart simply...stops.

At 10G's I don't think anyone, other than Chuck Norris, will be doing roundhouse kicks.