A rotating cylinder about 17 km long and 8.4 km in diameter is designed to be used as a Space Colony. Its rotations imitate the gravitational acceleration due to gravity as experienced on the Earth's surface. What is the tangential velocity of the sensor attached to the external wall of the cylinder? Round the answer to the nearest integer.

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