Edit: Ninja'ed by jmucchiello. But if B5 has a radius of only 400 m, then we need something like 1.6 RPM to get 1 g.
Me and my spreadsheet make it 1.48 RPM based on internet sources giving 840m as the external diameter with a 12m thick hull.
Me and my spreadsheet make it 1.48 RPM based on internet sources giving 840m as the external diameter with a 12m thick hull.
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So is 1.48 generating 1g on the floor of the 420m radius station or on the inside "surface" of the 432m radius of the station's hull?
Calculations? The irony of this is I pulled the 400m out my rear based on just mentally eyeballing the ratio of the station's length to its width/diameter. Using my mind's eye again, the rotation speed of B5 is probably around 40 seconds per rotation. Which is about 1.5 RPM, which matches. I impress myself for only being off by 32m on the diameter of 5 mile long CG object.
Of course the flaw with B5 is there should have been low gravity habitats. But they never showed them. Also, getting exactly 1g at 420m "depth" is silly, the habitat ring should have accommodated gravities over 1g for some people who are use to heavily homeworlds.