Hills?

--- In spacesettlers, Steve Long wrote:

> flymuffins wrote:

>> ... But all of the artwork in his book has rolling hills and
>> trees inside the habitat.
>> How much would these weigh?

> The pictures I remember seeing that had hills were of the O'Neill
> cylinders, and my impression was that the hills were sculpted into
> the inside of the cylinder endcaps, which rise towards the axis of
> rotation anyway.

Yeah. Those may not be the only hills, but they are the ones I
remember. I've always thought that villages in the vallies should be
on top of hollow hills.

> They probably concealed mechanisms, such as pumps for the waterfall
> I remember in one picture (which, strangely, did not display
> rotational curvature as it fell from partway up the end cap to
> the "floor".)

"rotational curvature," eh? We talking Coriolis again? This is
interesting. So would a waterfall twist on the way down, or fall at
a slant, or what?