Timeline for Zero-g astronaut motion
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| Jan 10, 2017 at 3:16 | comment | added | Roger Wood | You can cope with the unwanted angular momentum by continuously rotating your arms/legs to keep your head and body stationary, though you may get tired after a while. Linear momentum, however, is more of a problem and would require chopping off one or more limbs and throwing them away. | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 14:10 | comment | added | SF. | @uhoh: Not in a spacesuit :) The way to go about it would be to tuck your legs, and as you rotate wrists around the pole, counter-rotate your shoulders so that your body retains the same orientation. Good luck tucking your legs far enough for feet to pass over the pole in a spacesuit though. OTOH tuck your legs and lean onto the pole at your waist level and you might gain rotary momentum without linear. | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 8:14 | comment | added | uhoh | The post-pole rotation about CoM is a little tricky - there might be some "wrist action" or acrobatic maneuver to rotate around the pole without gaining any CoM angular momentum. | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 1:14 | history | answered | Roger Wood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |