That last mile

You can mail me your answers direct if you want...
I'll get out my red pen ;-)

xenophile2002 wrote:

> --- In spacesettlers, Ian Woollard wrote:
>
>>Ok test, to see if you've really understood this ;-)
>>
>>You take off in an aeroplane in an Island 3 habitat,
>>along the axis of the cylinder.
>>
>>Your experienced gravity would be:
>>
>>a) about normal gravity
>>b) about zero-g
>>c) negative gravity
>>
>>You then turn antispinward, and you set your airspeed
>>to the same as the rim speed but in the opposite direction.
>>(Maintaining altitude.)
>>
>>Your experienced gravity would be:
>>
>>a) about normal gravity
>>b) about zero-g
>>c) about negative gravity
>>
>>(Tricky one!) You then accelerate to twice the airspeed,
>>maintaining the same altitude in the same direction. What
>>gravity force would you feel:
>>
>>a) about normal gravity
>>b) about zero-g
>>b) about negative gravity
>>
>
> Would you consider setting this up as a poll, and we can see how many
> of us get these right? I *think* I know the answers, but I'm going
> to wait and give mgellis2 a chance to answer first. After all, this
> was posted in response to his question.
>
> Xenophile (cooking up a few technical questions of his own)
>

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