On Earth, gravity keeps the track in place on your bedroom floor. Your bedroom floor MIKE

Yours personally, don't deny that. It also keeps the cars on the track.

In space, yuo've got nothing keeping the track in place. Newton's third law tells us that when the car turn its wheel to make it move forward, it will also make the track move in the opposite direction.

So you're going to have to tether the track down to your (*your*) ISS bedroom floor/wall/ceiling/whatever, or it'll piss off everywhere and mess up some boffins experiments somewhere.

Also, I think you'll need magnetism to keep the car on the track, otherwise the conservation of forward momentum, when the car hits a bend, without the help of gravity to keep the car on the track, would cause the car to come off the track and float away.

So, you need an ISS bedroom, some bungee to tether the track down, magnets in the car to keep it on a suitably provisioned metal-enriched track, and you're good to go.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on November 2nd 2016 at 10:18:58

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Assuming I had a decent enough battery pack, could I play Scaletrix (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Nov 2, 10:06:19
- On Earth, gravity keeps the track in place on your bedroom floor. Your bedroom floor MIKE (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 2, 10:18:58
  - Are you WFH today by any chance? (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Nov 2, 10:31:38
    - No, I'm just horrifically displacement activitying. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 2, 10:34:18
  - Scalextric cars are already magnetized (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 2, 10:28:22
    - I never had a Scalextrics. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 2, 10:35:04
      - neither did i (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 2, 10:49:29
        
        [CITYFATHERS MEMBERSHIP REVOKED] (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Nov 2, 10:52:51
        
        meh (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 2, 11:01:28
        
        used to send our jack russell potty (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 2, 10:52:35
      - I'd never have guessed. (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Nov 2, 10:45:23
        
        We had TCR instead, with a Jam Car, whatever one of those is, but it never worked right. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 2, 10:48:58
        
        what's TCR? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 2, 10:50:12
        
        Total Control Racing I think. Same sort of idea. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 2, 11:00:12
        
        ah, ok (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 2, 11:01:17
  - You're loving this arn't you? I might appoint you curator of Scientific Wednesdays. (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Nov 2, 10:23:25
    - It's a welcome distraction. I literally can't explain how complicated the thing (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 2, 10:38:17
      - burger bap base first (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 2, 10:45:30
      - Put it in a new thread and get the wroth to do it for you, that'd definitely end well (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Nov 2, 10:42:49
- there is no vertically in space (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 2, 10:08:47

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