03-18-2011, 07:39 AM | #21 | |
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Re: O'Neill Cylinders
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03-18-2011, 08:14 AM | #22 |
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Re: O'Neill Cylinders
I'm foreign. You can't expect me to recognise such oblique references to Disney World.
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03-18-2011, 08:15 AM | #23 |
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Because I was writing a two-page introduction.
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03-18-2011, 08:51 AM | #24 | |
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03-18-2011, 11:47 AM | #25 |
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Good point.
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03-18-2011, 10:29 PM | #27 |
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Re: O'Neill Cylinders
What about high-speed flywheels at the caps of the tube to provide stability?
Also, when I was doing similar thought experiments and web investigations, I found that you need a very large radius to approach proper "radial" gravitation, otherwise you can still feel rotating frame effects. These include differing ballistic trajectories depending on the direction you're firing, vertical drops being slanted, and weight varying with your direction of travel. There was a nifty flash animation I found somewhere for simulating dropping or throwing a ball in a rotating frame.
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I don't think it will affect anyone's Rugby skills.
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