You can become weightless in a ring station by running really fast against the spin of the ring.
More practically, by climbing down and out into a despinner on the side of the ring. After being “launched” from the despinner, you would find yourself hovering stationary next to the ring. The torque exerted on the ring by the despinner will be recovered when you enter a respinner on whichever part of the ring you want to reenter.
Relatedly, iirc, this effect would be more noticeable in smaller spinners than in larger ones? Which is one reason people might disprefer smaller ones. Would it be a significant difference? I’m not sure, but if so, jogging would be a bit difficult, either it would quickly become too easy (and then dangerous, once the levitation kicks in) when you’re running down-spin, or it would become exhausting when you’re running up-spin.
A space where people can’t (or wont) jog isn’t ideal for human health.
I guess since it sounds like they’re going to be about a km long and 20 stories deep there’ll be enough room for a nice running track with minimal upspin/downspin sections.
If this was the setup I would bet on “hard man” fitness people swearing that running with the spin to run in a little more than earth normal gravity was great for building strength and endurance and some doctor somewhere would be warning people that the fad may not be good for your long term health.
You can become weightless in a ring station by running really fast against the spin of the ring.
More practically, by climbing down and out into a despinner on the side of the ring. After being “launched” from the despinner, you would find yourself hovering stationary next to the ring. The torque exerted on the ring by the despinner will be recovered when you enter a respinner on whichever part of the ring you want to reenter.
Relatedly, iirc, this effect would be more noticeable in smaller spinners than in larger ones? Which is one reason people might disprefer smaller ones. Would it be a significant difference? I’m not sure, but if so, jogging would be a bit difficult, either it would quickly become too easy (and then dangerous, once the levitation kicks in) when you’re running down-spin, or it would become exhausting when you’re running up-spin.
A space where people can’t (or wont) jog isn’t ideal for human health.
Running parallel to the spin axis would be fine, though.
I guess since it sounds like they’re going to be about a km long and 20 stories deep there’ll be enough room for a nice running track with minimal upspin/downspin sections.
If this was the setup I would bet on “hard man” fitness people swearing that running with the spin to run in a little more than earth normal gravity was great for building strength and endurance and some doctor somewhere would be warning people that the fad may not be good for your long term health.
Air resistance.
That is, however, basically the system I proposed near the end, for use near the center of a cylinder where speeds would be low.
Intended for use in vacuum. I guess if it’s more of a cylinder than a ring this wouldn’t always be faster than an elevator system though.