Hills?

Xenophile wrote:
>
> --- In spacesettlers, Steve Long wrote:
>
> > 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?
>

I believe it would twist, a gentle curve antispinward. This might be
corrected by making the waterfall more of a tumbling stream, and making the
antispin side of the watercourse higher, to "channel" the water into a more
appropriate-to-a-planetary-surface path.

Of course, you could really freak out flatlanders on vacation by leaving
the waterfall alone and letting it curve. A cylinder spinning rapidly
might even end up with a spiral waterfall. What a photograph to email back home!!!

Steve