Pat Flannery wrote:

Babylon 5 had a scene in one episode where Sheridan ended up floating in
the weightless middle of the station after the central monorail car he
was riding in was blown up, and as was correctly pointed out in the
episode the danger he was in was what would happen when he floated into
the rotating inside hull of the station, which from his point of view
would be going sideways at high speed.

Actually, from Sheridan's point of view, he would remain "weightless"
all the way to the ground were it not for the wind.

It would be the atmosphere, rotating with the structure, which would
gradually accelerate sheridan tangentially to the ground and that would
cause him to drop in altitude, at which point the wind would get
stronger and his acceleration be greater towards the ground.


What I have not seen mentioned in any such movies is the effect of
humans routinely changing from g to 0g environments and back to some
level of g.

If, after having had dinner at the restaurant, you take the elevator to
the centre of the vehicle where it is 0g so you can catch the train to
the other side of the station, how will your stomach react ? And how
will it recat when you then take the elevator back to "ground" level
where the gravity will increase once again ?