Artificial Gravity Wheel - O'Neill Wheel

Please Read Before Operating

This is an experiment to create artificial gravity through centrifugal force. Named after Gerard K. O'Neill and his O'Neill Cylinder space settlement design.

The O'Neill Wheel is entirely vanilla. No tinkering or mods.

Instructions

Change your location to anywhere in outer space. Doesn't matter what kind of orbit you're in, as long as you're in free fall and not in an atmosphere, the O'Neill Wheel will work. If you don't have a location saved in outer space, get into outer space using a different craft and save your location with F6.

• Activator 1 activates the engines. Use gimbal to rotate the wheel. You should rotate the wheel at a reasonable speed if you want the best results. The wheel is meant to emulate livable gravity, after all. The dummies will go flying off into oblivion if you just gun it.

• Activator 2 releases the two dummies attached to the inside of the wheel. They will react differently based on the detach force of their interstages.

One dummy's detach force is 0%, while the other's is 40%. If you keep the rotation speed of the O'Neill Wheel constant when you activate the interstages (this just involves turning the engines off and keeping them off), the 0% dummy will remain grounded while the 40% dummy will fly upward momentarily before "falling" back down to the inside of the wheel because of the centrifugal force, or artificial gravity.

You can also make some pretty interesting engine exhaust patterns if you fly the O'Neill Wheel in an atmosphere.