New member writes...

Much appreciated George!

John

--- In spacesettlers@y..., Gturner6PPC@y... wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I'm a newbie, too! In regars to the problem you mention, if you're
> moving with a 31 m/sec tangential velocity, you're at 1G. If you
> walk spinward at about 4 mph, or 1.8 m/sec, you're actually rotating
> at 32.8 m/sec, and experience around 1.1G. If you walk against the
> spin your tangential velocity is only 29.2 m/sec, and you experience
> 0.87G. Needless to say, at higher, running, speeds the problem
> worsens. To avoid this effect, the station diameter needs to be
> larger. Many designs are 1 mile or more in diameter, with a
> tangential velocity of over 200 mph. There are other nasty effects
> with high angular velocities, so larger diameters really help some
> other problems, too.
>
> Here is a link to some of these issues.
>
http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/artificial_gravity_and_the_architec