That last mile

Yes, but what about an ultralight (or helicopter, etc.)? I imagine
that when you run or jump, you are still connected to the habitat in
terms of having been moving along with it, so you'd drop back to the
ground. But if you are flying, say 50 m. above the ground, wouldn't
you sometimes just cancel out that momentum? Pressure from air and
wind, etc. would probably have some effect on you, but there isn't
really gravity, just the spinning interior surface of the habitat
whose rotation creates something like gravity.

Am I making sense? I apologize if I'm just missing something basic
here.

What would it feel like if this happened while you were flying an
ultralight, etc. inside a habitat? Would you just sort of feel
gravity drop away as you cancelled out your momentum? And then when
you landed, would you feel a sudden shock as "gravity" was "restored"
because you were now in contact with the surface again?

And how much effect would air and wind pressure have on aircraft in
these circumstances?

Anyone have any ideas about this?

Thanks.

Mark

--- In spacesettlers@y..., Al Globus wrote:
> Just go to the center (probably only a few hundred meters away) and
> you'll be in free fall.
>
> On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 08:02 PM, mgellis2 wrote:
>
> > Could you move fast enough to push yourself into free fall? This
> > probably wouldn't be possibly just by running (although maybe in a
> > very low gee habitat it would be),
>
> The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
> space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
> worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll
should
> try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect
and