This evening I wrote a little simulation of dropping a ball in a 224-m,
2-RPM space colony. Of course I'm not the first to do that, but it's a
fun little visualization, which you can see here:
Best,
- Joe
sailor.barsoom wrote:> I can imagine somebody doing an archery exhibition in a park, with the arrows> doing that loop-de-loop thing.Huh?Your post did made me think of sports played in these. Imagine a footballgame (american football that is) played in a spinning habitat, how the balltravels through the air during a pass play would depend on how the field isaligned.
sailorbarsoom@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
> doesn't (from the POV of the folks watching it) fall straight down.
I love this idea. Fountains and waterfalls would be a lot of fun.
...Or do they just accentuate the alienness of the colony?
Best,
- Joe
Another interesting thing would be a ball bouncing-thrown parallel with the
spin axis. The trajectory should form some sort of decaying helix-like
shape. And because of the ball's spin around its own axis, I reckon it will
end up rolling downspin once it loses its bounce.
spacesettlers@...m> wrote:
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> Whoa, wait... Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. freaking CLARKE wrote about
> space sports? I knew he wrote about solar sailing, but...
>
> Oh yeah I gotta get a hold of that!
>
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On 30 September 2016 at 05:11,
sailorbarsoom@tx.rr.com
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Whoa, wait... Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. freaking CLARKE wrote about space sports? I knew he wrote about solar sailing, but...
Oh yeah I gotta get a hold of that!
-Ian Woollard
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football and soccer players learn to handle crosswinds
markus
Am 24.09.2016 um 20:39 schrieb wlm_efn@... [spacesettlers]:
>
> sailor.barsoom wrote:
>> I can imagine somebody doing an archery exhibition in a park, with the
> arrows
>> doing that loop-de-loop thing.
>
> Huh?
>
> Your post did made me think of sports played in these. Imagine a football
> game (american football that is) played in a spinning habitat, how the ball
> travels through the air during a pass play would depend on how the field is
> aligned.
>
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