THE EXPANSE
GO WATCH IT!
No stupid gimmicky "artificial gravity" horseshit, the "gravity" is caused by acceleration and deceleration.
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Which is fucking cool because it's one of the few space travel things that really does work. Like if we can figure out the fuel/propulsion thing and some kind of equivalent to deflector shields (not for space battles but for all the random shit in space that could destory your ship in a collision, especially if we get up to relativistic speeds), we could have space travel where you can walk around normally on the ship.
Also the gravity increasing ships like Goku used in DBZ, so we could actually have someone doing extreme gravity training while en route to a big fight.
And it works for both acceleration and deceleration, only difference is you're either travelling up or down.
Also loved the special seats they used when doing combat maneuvers. ST didn't just make up artificial gravity (since their ships moved forwards rather than up), they had inertial dampeners, because the evasive maneuvers would have been much more dangerous than the shocks from getting hit.
ST is more rooted in science than SW, but parts of it are just as much fantasy as the force, which was depressing to realize when you're hoping for humanity to eventually go in that direction. The biggest human tech fantasy in the Expanse is an engine upgrade that gives improved thrust and efficiency. Not to light speed, but just by like an order of magnitude. And they've even got a brutally realistic scene about the discovery that was great world building imo.
the expanse is the only universe where Epstein actually killed himself
I mean, gravity is just acceleration anyway.
Weird fucking acceleration due to the curvature of spacetime and how shit moves through time. But still, just acceleration.
To be fair; if you could build a fusion torch and fully direct the flow; aneutronic fusion fits the bill; the thrust numbers they are using are not crazy.
You would use stupid amount of fuel to get that much delta-v; but with advanced reactors using readily available fuel sources....maybe not an issue.
Matter/antimatter would theoretically be a lot better.
Indeed.
Total energy available is higher, but that reaction produces radiation as the primary product. Radiation is difficulty to properly direct.
Fusion (aneutronic) produces the bulk of the energy as charged particles, which we can direct with magnetic or electric fields.
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Up until the space magic bullshit, anyway.
So disappointing when the hand waving started.
Well the show didn't finish the story.
E: though, it didn't get less "magical", just more explained in a soft-scifi sense.
I wouldn't know, it got stupid well before the end
Spin up the drum.
I am a big fan of sci-fi and understand how expensive weightlessness is to film, so combine that with the amount of shows that have been canceled and I completely accept the fact that they try to keep this more fictional than science.
Well... Star Trek The Undiscovered Country.
Yep! One of the more rememberable parts... Floating pink Klingon blood droplets everywhere!
What you’re really saying is there aren’t enough big budget sci fi things to watch.
Simple. All the floors are made from a special exotic material, that is a lot like a magnet, but attracts everything. And just like magnets, they are not powered by any external source and don't need any external systems to control.
It would make sweeping really hard.
Why? It's adjusted (thickness of the material) to exactly match earth's gravity, so everything is exactly the same.
I always thought of mini black holes in the floors.
Titan AE
"Just think of it as floaty time!"
I like the movie and atmosphere but damn the villains are whack
I wish there were some spinoff or something similar.
That's why I prefer hard SciFi like The Expanse books, where science is a main driver to life and motivations to drive the story.
Ive sen some of the show ad liked it a lot. Are the books even better??
Yes, and continue on about 30 years after the show, giving an actual conclusion to the story.
Bet, thank you
Strap in and wait for the juice, the show never really leaves our solar system
starships have redundancies most likely, much like the life support systems. its like artificial gravity isnt coming from an actual generator, but the whole ship itself in some unknown mechanism, most scifi genre dont explain how its being created, it looks more like an energy field throughout the whole ship generated from every "system" in the internally.
Sounds expensive... what if we just chalked it up to magic?
Not magic. The artificial gravity stabilizers are directly enhanced by the production budget stabilizers, which keep them in check.
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