09-22-2015, 07:16 AM
Spin is not gravity, but it's darned close to it. When an object leaves the surface it will continue to travel in a straight line with its last velocity. That line intersects the ground. Objects that roll off a table will drop to the floor; things tossed up into the air will come back down. Strapping on wings (on a 1G habitat) wouldn't enable you to fly unless you could flap yourself up to something approaching the linear speed of the ground, which is over 100 mph for even a 250-m habitat. (Or, of course, if you start and stay near the spin axis, where the apparent force is much lower.)
So, even if you were living there, it would be easy to forget that it's not gravity.
I think the people affected most by the difference will be players of sports involving flying balls: baseball, American football, etc. Such balls will appear to follow a curved path that depends on which way they're going relative to the spin. I suspect that serious players will quickly adapt to this and be less troubled by it than the wind, which also affects a ball's path but is far less predictable.
So, even if you were living there, it would be easy to forget that it's not gravity.
I think the people affected most by the difference will be players of sports involving flying balls: baseball, American football, etc. Such balls will appear to follow a curved path that depends on which way they're going relative to the spin. I suspect that serious players will quickly adapt to this and be less troubled by it than the wind, which also affects a ball's path but is far less predictable.
Joe Strout
Lead Developer, High Frontier