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.
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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.
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.