Gravity?
POSTED BY: Quill
UPDATED: Thursday, October 24, 2002 19:59
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Yes, but wouldn't that mean that everyone would be walking on the hull, instead of the corridors?
Inside every cynic there's an idealist desperately yearning to be let out, and when they are let out they're usually a real pain and cause all sorts of trouble. --Chris Boucher
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You are thinking of a snap roll, not a barrel roll. In a snap roll, you spin the ship on its horizontal axis. Picture tieing a string to the nose and tail of serenity and twirling it in space, while staying in the same place. In a barrel roll, you sideslip a bit, or to modify it to create gravity, you would pull up while banking your left wing over to the right and continue in a complete circle, all while keeping the floor of the ship orinted in the proper direction to keep the gravity straight down. If your roll radius was several hundred miles(quite likely in space) and you only completed one roll every couple of thousand miles, the ship wouldn`t fly through space looking like its twirling.
But I can tell you a better reason why all sci-fi shows have artificial gravity. Cause zero-g would cost millions to film each epesode!
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I agree. sci-fi isn't about the technology. It's a fun side part, and it can make a show better sometimes, but people overdo it. Sci-fi should be about plot, character development and a depiction of the future. Shows like Andromeda have lost that in all the action.
~*Saint of Cheese*~
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Gimme a break!
SF = SciFi = Science Fiction
It's Science with a Fiction bend
or Fiction with a Science bend.
SF without Science is ...
Science Fiction - Science = Fiction...
Just pure Fiction which end you up
in the plain Fantasy dept.
Asimov, Heinlein, and Foster are SF.
Do any of y'alls read at all?
--- Good Grief!
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But the line is fuzzy. Take the short story that started off Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight, for instance; the original story is fantasy in all but the framework. Zenna Henderson and HM Hoover also wrote stories that are not easily defined. And the Martian Chronicles may take place on Mars, but much of what goes on in those stories has little relation to science.
Inside every cynic there's an idealist desperately yearning to be let out, and when they are let out they're usually a real pain and cause all sorts of trouble. --Chris Boucher
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So, Jason ZZZ, you're telling us that, for example, the "positronic brain" qualifies as science in the fiction, because positrons are dealt with only by scientists, despite its inventor admitting that it was named that way because it sounds cool rather than anything that had anything to do with the actual science of positrons? After all, Isaac was "real science fiction" author...
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Quote:Yes, this is true to a certain extent, but don’t overstep yourself. Science fiction came about because it became apparent that science was advancing fast enough that in future human beings could be capable of amazing things. Good science fictions always attempts to hold to the laws of science when necessary or possible, but good science fiction also fictionally expands the science to show what science could be, not what it is. That is, science fiction is not stories about science in a fictional setting, but rather it’s stories about fictional science.
Originally posted by Jasonzzz:
Gimme a break!
SF = SciFi = Science Fiction
It's Science with a Fiction bend
or Fiction with a Science bend.
SF without Science is ...
Science Fiction - Science = Fiction...
Just pure Fiction which end you up
in the plain Fantasy dept.
Asimov, Heinlein, and Foster are SF.
Do any of y'alls read at all?
--- Good Grief!
By your description, a fictional movie about WW2 German rocket would be science fiction, wouldn’t it? It is fictional, and it is about science. That is the only requirements you’ve placed on it. Therefore, such a historical movie becomes sci-fi, but obviously science fiction is not that broad.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clark
Don't you read at all?
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Originally posted by Thegn:
Science fiction came about because it became apparent that science was advancing fast enough that in future human beings could be capable of amazing things. Good science fictions always attempts to hold to the laws of science when necessary or possible, but good science fiction also fictionally expands the science to show what science could be, not what it is.
Frankenstein being a classic example, and referred to as the first science fiction novel.
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I will give you that at least its not complete fantasy or just plain crap. It could be SF; but let's not deconstruct and look at whether or not the actors are holding their communicators correctly or not. We are not at any TrekCon here.
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Originally posted by Delvo:
So, Jason ZZZ, you're telling us that, for example, the "positronic brain" qualifies as science in the fiction, because positrons are dealt with only by scientists, despite its inventor admitting that it was named that way because it sounds cool rather than anything that had anything to do with the actual science of positrons? After all, Isaac was "real science fiction" author...
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True, true about Fictional Science. As long as it suspend disbelief in some legitimate science way - futuristic or some systematic way. Of course, some fans will go way out of their way to make justification... but we are not at a FanCon here.
What I was trying to do is draw a line in the sand in defining what SF is, where Fantasy is, and where the rest of the character fiction, historical fiction, and fiction fiction are.
No, not everything fits into the mold perfectly and I am not going to jam pack it in where they don't belong - but that's the point -> there are things that clearly aren't SF, they so cross over the line that they are clearly not SF, and to me, they are just Fantasies.
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Originally posted by Thegn:Quote:Yes, this is true to a certain extent, but don’t overstep yourself. Science fiction came about because it became apparent that science was advancing fast enough that in future human beings could be capable of amazing things. Good science fictions always attempts to hold to the laws of science when necessary or possible, but good science fiction also fictionally expands the science to show what science could be, not what it is. That is, science fiction is not stories about science in a fictional setting, but rather it’s stories about fictional science.
Originally posted by Jasonzzz:
Gimme a break!
SF = SciFi = Science Fiction
It's Science with a Fiction bend
or Fiction with a Science bend.
SF without Science is ...
Science Fiction - Science = Fiction...
Just pure Fiction which end you up
in the plain Fantasy dept.
Asimov, Heinlein, and Foster are SF.
Do any of y'alls read at all?
--- Good Grief!
By your description, a fictional movie about WW2 German rocket would be science fiction, wouldn’t it? It is fictional, and it is about science. That is the only requirements you’ve placed on it. Therefore, such a historical movie becomes sci-fi, but obviously science fiction is not that broad.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clark
Don't you read at all?
-----------
In the Dark Ages, Romano-Celtic Britannia was over-run by Viking-like cultures collectively called the Anglo-Saxons. They were led by warlords called Drytinns, and the greatest warriors among them were the Thegns.
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