RE: What do your ships look like? (was: Minatures)

In message <Pine.BSD.3.91.960725161456.26333A-100000@ugly.cute.fi> Niko
Mikkanen writes:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Adam Delafield wrote:
> 
> > Date sent:	25-JUL-1996 08:42:19 
> > 
> > I've never seen the sense in this. Why not simply rotate the whole
damn ship?
> > No pivots to worry about then.
> 
> Ever tried shooting out to the side form a rotating ship? Gunners
might 
> start getting a bit giddy after a few minutes...
> Also, the further away from the hull you can take the rotating part,
the 
> slower it will have to rotate. Using this sort of artificial gravity 
> during a battle, however, is stupid. 

My physics being awfully rusty... wouldn't a rotating (fully- or
partially-) ship be this great big gyroscope? Wouldn't that make
it behave in really strange ways? 

Somebody with a clue please tell me how right/wrong I am.

-- 
David Brewer