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To: NicknamedBob
your sense of down rotates a hundred and twenty degrees.

Right angles are 153.627 degrees as well...

797 posted on 01/04/2007 7:11:20 PM PST by Professional Engineer (Why bifocals? Font inflation. Today's 14 point is the same as 2 point was in 1957.)
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To: Professional Engineer
"Right angles are 153.627 degrees as well..."

An interesting place to work is the Thrust Ring. When we were on-planet, the floor was the washer-shaped flat wall of the cylindrical tube.

After we got into space and began rotating, the curved outer wall became the floor. The stairs and doorways tend to look odd, and I guess they always will.

801 posted on 01/04/2007 7:17:08 PM PST by NicknamedBob (My tuner doesn't have good taste the way it used to!)
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