lakes & ponds in a space colony

On Nov 10, 2014, at 11:21 AM, harlockacadia@... [spacesettlers] wrote:

> Once contact with the ground is lost you are in a ZERO G environment. Most will probably use a compressed air or electric turbine jet pack.

Yes, but when you jump up from a spinning hull you still have nearly the velocity (direction and speed) of the hull you were on. So, you will very quickly come back in contact with the hull. In practice, at typical space settlement design sizes (hundreds of meters radius) if you jump up you will land pretty close to where you would have in a non-rotating environment.

If you want to zoom around with wings and jet packs youll need to first go to the axis of rotation (or near it) and null out the velocity youve got at the hull.

harlockacadia@...
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> wrote:
Once contact with the ground is lost you are in a ZERO G environment. Most will probably use a compressed air or electric turbine jet pack.
Yes, but when you jump up from a spinning hull you still have nearly the velocity (direction and speed) of the hull you were on. So, you will very quickly come back in contact with the hull. In practice, at typical space settlement design sizes (hundreds of meters radius) if you jump up you will land pretty close to where you would have in a non-rotating environment.
If you want to zoom around with wings and jet packs youll need to first go to the axis of rotation (or near it) and null out the velocity youve got at the hull.