Clothing Question

> From: Brad Walsh [mailto:epibeemie@...]
>
> But if one lived in a colony
> in the shape of
> a giant cylinder, and wanted to try to defeat this "gravity,"
> one need only
> run in the direction opposite the spin of the colony, and
> jump. (You would
> need to run at the same speed the colony is rotating.)

So you would only need to run at 377 miles per hour.

I'm assuming "giant cylinder" to mean Island 3: 4 mile diameter/0.5 RPMs.

Smaller habitats don't improve the situation by much: I calculate 207 mph
for a Stanford Torus, and 120 mph for a Bernal Sphere.

It's funny how much confusion there is on this issue.

> Once
> in the air you
> would not be drawn back down to the surface, since there is
> no gravity to do
> that. You would continue in a straight line, going the same
> speed, until
> you hit something (like for example the far side of the
> cylinder).

You're neglecting the effects of wind resistance, which will always tend to
try and get you rotating with the habitat. The effect is not instantaneous,
but it's not negligible.

Regards,

Mike Combs