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  Re: XKCD is amusing for once...  
From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 21 Nov 2008 12:04:32
Message: <4926ea20$1@news.povray.org>
Chambers wrote:
> The corollary to this is that rotating a space station for gravity only
> works when you're standing on the floor; anytime you're floating in the
> air, you can watch the whole station rotate past you as you just sit
> there :)

An interesting related aside: If you're in a rotating space station, it 
seems like the "gravity" would appear stronger or weaker depending on 
weather you were moving with or against the direction of rotation, so 
you should be able to, for example, jump further in one direction than 
another.

Assuming the radius is small enough for the effect to be obvious, that's 
got to feel really odd.


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