From: imachrismoose@gmail.com   
      
   I've been writing a short story, and was wondering if one of the maneuvers I   
   was writing about was possible. In my story, one of the astronauts is ejected   
   from her ship in a violent fashion, putting her in a state where she is   
   rotating on more than one    
   axis. What I want to know is twofold: assuming she were ejected from the   
   center of a 4 meter by 10 meter cylindrical room in the direction of the short   
   axis, pressurized to standard atmospheric pressure, what would her final   
   velocity be? Would it be    
   different if she were ejected in the direction of the long axis? And second,    
   would it be possible for her to reduce or eliminate her overall rotational   
   momentum by strategically spinning her arms about her head? I checked on   
   Project Rho: Atomic Rockets    
   to see if I could find anything, but there was nothing there, and that's   
   really the only space SF resource site that I know of, other than here. Any   
   help would be great. Thanks ahead of time!   
      
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