O'Neill Cylinders

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Originally Posted by Daigoro

What about high-speed flywheels at the caps of the tube to provide stability?

Good thought.

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.

I have 10 km radius here, and period 200 seconds. My reading suggests that that is ample to avoid dizziness, disorientation, and sickness. But there will be some noticeable Coriolis effects. A person running fast (10 ms^1) to the east will feel a 6% increase in "gravity", and a person running fast to the west a 6% decrease. The difference in long-jump distances will be the same. Rising in a high-speed lift (1 storey per second) you will feel a force of a 0.9% of a gee pushing you east.

I don't think it will affect anyone's Rugby skills.