That last mile

--- In spacesettlers, "mgellis2" wrote:

> 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.

Something like gravity, yes. But weirder.

http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/teacher/materials/ringwor
ld/

This will take you to a JAVA thingie that lets you simulate dropping
or throwing objects in an artificial-gravity-via-rotation
environment. Try dropping stuff with the view locked, then unlocked.

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

I think so. I wish I knew better the answer, and how to say it so
that it would make sense.

Xenophile (if you throw it just right, it'll do a loop-de-loop...
WEIRD)