“O’Neill Tennis 1.02” from IBM Math and Physics, shows how sports would work on a rotating space station habitat.
The game designer simulates a tennis serve and game on a
court inside an O’Neill cylinder (space station)
When the ball is in flight, the rotation of the space station
has no effect on it, which is a problem with the way people understand
artificial gravity. It moves in a
straight line but appears to curve because of the motion of the station.
What would be interesting would be baseball batting cages:
pitching and hitting home runs in an O’Neill stadium. Bryce Harper could set up
a lab in his Las Vegas home before a Super Bowl party on Facebook Live. Not sure how well NFL football would work,
either.
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