So..I understand that centrifugal force would push everyone towards the floor, but what if youre not in the floor? Theres any constant force pulling you? I see articles saying its theoretically feasible, just not practical (even nasa proposed stuff like that).

I can see (more or less) inertia allowing you to jump inside it as normally(I guess it throws you in a tangent, and since its spinning, youd end up being still pushed on a realitve downwards direction right? As the floor "follows" you while youre in the air) (Im imagining a city sized station, bare with me)

...But could you fly an helicopter inside it? If you keep too much time in the air theres no centrifugal force anymore right? The helicopter would take flight at the same speed due inertia, but it would start to unsync with the rotation of the torus? No wait..the air inside the torus is also rotating, otherwise it would be really windy..Hmmmmm..But..that means the helicopter would keep a stable position relative to the floor if it keeps in the air? solely due air push?

@.@

What if you throw a baseball..it behaves the same(relative to the floor) regardless if you throw against or in favor of the rotation?

I feel stupid.

Its real early in the morning here, but the answer is probably no. Centrifugal force only works when you're attached to the thing rotating so you coudn't fly a helicopter in the air inside a rotating spacestation because there is no pull on the hellicopter. Well, you could fly it but not in the traditional sense. there would be nothing to counteract the thrust provided by the blades.

Without gravity you don't really have the requirement for traditional flight.

maybe they could use this

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36855705

Someone in the middle of the space station will have no artificial gravity, as the wheel isn't pushing them around. Actually, anyone not moving with the wheel with have no artificial gravity.

so what really would have happened to John Sheridan?

Jumping out of the tram car like that would mean that most of your momentum is still in the direction you were traveling, just angled out a bit.

...and if you look closely, that is exactly what is depicted. He jumps out, but continue to travel with the tram, but away from it.

Then there is a bit of time passing not shown, until the bomb explodes, because he has time to get a bit of distance. (so he is less likely to get shrapneled)

The momentum from jumping out will eventually get him to hit the ground, but as noted by Delenn, he will not be accelerated enough by the wind/air-resistance and the relative speed between him and the rotating ground will kill him.

But Kosh intervenes, sends his angel avatar to accelerate him to match the speed of the ground before hitting it, and thus saving him.

I'd say, for a sci-fi tv-series, they get it pretty accurate :)

And since there is no acceleration due to gravity you only have the air pushing on you as the only active force that is going to matter.

There is no acceleration due to gravity shown or mentioned. All his speed towards the ground is from jumping out of the tram. (pretty slow as shown when they land)

But it is not that speed which will kill him, but the perpendicular (to his movement towards the ground) speed of the ground when he reaches it that will kill him.

I'm too lazy to double check the actual numbers they mention though, I don't doubt there might be some weirdness there.

Also, they might skimp a bit on the air-resistance actually being able to accelerate him more...

But still a lot more accurate then what most sci-fi even tries for :)

Given the speed that tram appeared to be going compared to how fast a human can push off in a jump... Well hitting the end wall is not an unreasonable expectation, and the critical point becomes the air dynamics on the inner 3/4th of the diameter of the structure.

True.