nearer to the end

* Centrifugal force BTW is always away from the axis of rotation - centripetal is towards the axis of rotation. The dubious mnemonic that we were taught back in grade school science was centriFugal, F, Flee, like an object is trying to flee from the axis of rotation / centriPetal, P, Partners, an object that wants to partner up with the axis of rotation. I mean I guess it’s not so dubious after all if I remember it twenty plus years later 🙄

Anyways looks like an O’Neill cylinder which has lost an end cap, suffering catastrophic depressurization. In that event there’s not much you really can do - small leaks from micrometeoroids aren’t such a big deal actually since the enclosed volume of air is so large that weather patterns will form in the center of the tube - a few little leaks is no biggie. But an end cap rupturing, well, that’s just a bad day to be a spaceman/woman cos it’s gonna be so quick you couldn’t grab something to hold even if you had some idea massive depressurization was at risk. And even if you did somehow halt your unplanned departure from the station you inhabit, there’s no air anymore so best hope you have a pressure shot on with a whole bunch of cans of breathable gas nearby…

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