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Time to pull a Fletcher. - Shagohad - 02-02-2011
Alright. So. I was watching Gundam and one thing I admired about the show was its acknowledgment of weightlessness in space. Never on the ships do they have gravity. The massive habitats and stations do because they have a centrifuge with which they generate gravity through an orbit.
After talking to many players and seeing how people RP their ships, it is under a general consensus that only capital ships and transports would have artificial gravity.
My query:
What kind? Why? How?
My theory is that which is reminiscent of Dead Space. They have gravity plating which works like a tractor beam. It exerts a gravitational/force field pull on what ever is above the individual plating. So let's set it to pull at 1G and let's assume that the field extends to what ever is a solid massive object above it (The ceiling). It seems very crude and would be prone to horrific accidents.
What do you guys think?
Time to pull a Fletcher. - Decerebrated.Individual - 02-02-2011
How does a tractor beam work?
Time to pull a Fletcher. - Shagohad - 02-02-2011
' Wrote:How does a tractor beam work?
I really never thought about it.
Time to pull a Fletcher. - Crackpunch - 02-02-2011
' Wrote:How does a tractor beam work?
Magnets.
Time to pull a Fletcher. - Jinx - 02-02-2011
freelancer features artificial gravity and never explains it ( stills of hangars, bars etc. ) - like star trek or star wars - no one really cares how its achieved, its just there.
regarding other technologies, freelancer isn t too advanced ( compared to other sci-fi settings )
one of the few shows that is quite consequent with gravity is babylon 5 ( the destroyers have artificial gravity by rotating their mid section ) - but the cruisers do not have - personell is "strapped" into their stations - fighters also have no gravity.
freelancer makes no use of gravity through rotation, so a logical explanation is indeed the use of maybe a very low powered and permanent tractor if you desperately seek an explanation.
mind you - when it comes to technobabble like tractor beams and beaming - the explanation is often more trivial and less exciting than one might think. - star trek features "beaming" cause it was cheaper to beam people than the creat special effects of docking / landing sequences. - artificial gravity is used, cause you don t need to create weightlessness. - both these things have been established sort of - as a "given" in most sci-fi.
so - even when freelancer wouldn t suffer from additional special effect sequences. - i believe that no one really cares about it. - its the same like we expect to hear "sound" in space - and "see" beams. its done to feel more "at home".
with that in mind - a low power tractor is as good an explanation as a superdense floorplating with its own gravity.
Time to pull a Fletcher. - Crackpunch - 02-02-2011
' Wrote:with that in mind - a low power tractor is as good an explanation as a superdense floorplating with its own gravity.
Problem with that is multiple floors on a battleship. Either the gravity plate is at the bottom of the ship or if the plate is in the centre, half the ship's crew walks around upside down.
Time to pull a Fletcher. - squidofsymphony - 02-02-2011
' Wrote:Problem with that is multiple floors on a battleship. Either the gravity plate is at the bottom of the ship or if the plate is in the centre, half the ship's crew walks around upside down.Ahh, but in space...exactly which way is upside-down?
Time to pull a Fletcher. - Bobthemanofsteel - 02-02-2011
' Wrote:Ahh, but in space...exactly which way is upside-down?
The bottom of the ship, obviously.
And before you ask 'Which side is the bottom', it's the part that was designed to be the bottom when it was being built.
Time to pull a Fletcher. - Decerebrated.Individual - 02-02-2011
If you have any kind of artifitial gravity, it would most likely be shielded off ouside your ship.
If it wasnt, asteroids would fall on your ship very quickly if they passed near them, and so would other ships, no matter their size (even battleships).
Gravity decreases with the second power of distance (well at least in our normal universe where artifitial gravity is actually impossible), and thats a constant.
That means that an object 1 mile above your ship would fall onto your ship at the same rate that the object would fall upon the earth 1 mile above sea level, if your ship's artifitial gravity is also 9.81 m/s^2.
That's pretty painfull if its a medium sized asteroid or other ship.
So, its probably shielded off at the edges.
In Star Trek DS9, there is an episode where captain Ciskko and his son fly to Cardasia in a primitive "solar sail ship". In that episode the artifitial gravity is explained: They use a "gravity rug" on the floor.
Time to pull a Fletcher. - AeternusDoleo - 02-02-2011
There's a "yo mamma" joke somewhere... just waiting for this thread...