Re: B5 and Sir Isaac
From: M Hodgson <mkh100@y...>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 12:51:17 -0500
Subject: Re: B5 and Sir Isaac
> >
> Any large mass has a gravitational pull ; since this is observable
when a
> small pleasure boat comes within a few metres of a super tanker at
bearth
> and is pulled towards the hull (both ships stationary)
> It is totally fesible that the 1/3 g of C&C is due to the MASS of B5
as a
> whole on the outlying section that does not rotate.
>
C&C does rotate !!! It sits just above/below the docking bay which also
rotates. The reason you sometimes don't see the stars outside turning
is
cost (see JMS post archive), but it does rotate. The 1/3 is due to it
being closer to the cental axis of spin that the majority of the
station...
-Michael h