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 | Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAH | |
| Posted By: SiliconDream =PN= | Date: 12/14/01 12:27 a.m. |
| In Response To: Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAH (Steve Levinson) : Really? I would have gathered just the opposite. Keep in mind that
Well, it seemed to me that saying "The Pfhor ship has a weak artificial gravity field" and "The gravity's weaker than on the Marathon" would be unnecessarily redundant unless the mere fact of artificial gravity was itself worthy of note. However, I've more or less given up on this idea for other reasons. Centrifugal gravity is artificial, but not in the same sense...Coriolis forces aside, it still "feels" like ordinary gravity. : Not only that, but the gravity would be strongest at the equator and would be
Marathon was actually converted from Deimos, which is 11 km across in its smallest dimension (its "width"). Assuming not too much of it was shaved off to make the Marathon, if we want a 1-g force at the ship's hull, you'd need to rotate once every two minutes or so. That's slow enough that you don't have any real effects of discomfort--as an example of how "noticeable" the rotation is, a person sprinting spinwards or antispinwards at 20 mph experiences a less-than-10% weight difference from a person standing still--but you'd definitely see the stars move. Of course, the Marathon engine didn't allow for animating landscape textures. But, as you guys talk about elsewhere in the thread, you've got windows in the walls instead of in the floor as they'd need to be for centrifugal gravity--and in fact in G4 Sunbathing you've got the sky directly overhead. So no centrifugal gravity. :-( Still seems strange to me that the shuttles don't have artificial gravity, and that you can drift toward the Marathon in zero-G in the manual even though you're being held to the hull by 1-G in G4 sunbathing, and that Leela and Durandal can't incapacitate most of the Pfhor (especially on the hull) by messing with the gravity...but that's the way it is. : That's actually an excellent idea. Marathon certainly doesn't look like it
For some reason Loren Petrich never thought to add the accelerational G-force to his Marathon page. :-) Assuming constant acceleration and deceleration for Sol to Tau Ceti in 300 years, the Marathon would only experience 1/2000th of a gee. So I guess artificial gravity swamped the acceleration component at any time...although low-G childhoods might explain why the Bobs are such wusses. --SiliconDream | |
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