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Timeline for O'Neill/McKendree Looping River

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Sep 29, 2017 at 2:47 comment added Braydon @rek Yes and the spinning cannot cause a river to flow, unless it is uneven. The goal is to have an even spin that provides constant gravity so people don't bounce around the inside. If you have uniform gravity, then the river will not flow anywhere but down hill, and getting it to go back uphill will not work with just the spin.
Sep 28, 2017 at 20:53 comment added rek As an O'Neill-style habitat there is energy in the form of spin, which produces spinward and outward (down, from the perspective of the inner surface) motion from anything not held to the surface. There's also heating in the form of a simulated day/night cycle, but I don't expect that to factor.
Sep 28, 2017 at 19:10 comment added Joe Bloggs @Brythan: that's just a matter of definition. Define your frame of reference as constantly rotating and there most certainly are centrifugal and Coriolis forces.
Sep 28, 2017 at 18:21 comment added Brythan There is no such thing as centrifugal force in these systems; there is only angular momentum and centripetal force. Combined, the two give the illusion of centrifugal force and what is called the Coriolis effect. The question here is if the angular momentum can cause a river to flow. Note that if this works, the water would almost certainly flow the opposite direction from the spin. The water would be attempting to stay stationary while the ground revolved underneath it.
Sep 28, 2017 at 17:45 history edited L.Dutch CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 28, 2017 at 17:29 comment added Mołot This is true, but OP never said that there is no source of energy. His habitat is spinning and he asks if that can make river flow. Energy of the spinning is an energy. How habitat is kept spinning is another matter.
Sep 28, 2017 at 17:11 history answered L.Dutch CC BY-SA 3.0