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Is this the same concept as the running scene in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey?

• jiri 2y ago
  Actually no. In the movie, there is already gravity present in the hub - generated by rotating this large cylindrical hub. Running in such hub would increase gravity slightly but no running is needed at all! Just being in such hub is comparable to running in cylinder mentioned in the paper. Running in small (10m) diameter cylinder increase gravity significantly without need to spin the cylinder. Anyway to minimize effects of Coriolis force in spinning cylinder, I think that the size of the cylinder would be significantly larger than the size in the movie.
  • abecedarius 2y ago
    Are you thinking of the space station? The running scene was in the interplanetary ship, with a 12m diameter cylinder spinning just enough for moon-level gravity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_One