OoG - Where'd all that gravity come from?

POSTED BY: Xarr
UPDATED: Saturday, July 24, 2004 22:47
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RAWDEAL

Monday, July 19, 2004 9:05 PM

You make a good point

MANWITHPEZ

Monday, July 19, 2004 9:34 PM

In "The Message", doesn't Kaylee mention very slightly the working of gravity aboard Serenity. She only mentions the part and when it kicks in when the got atmospheric. From that, I kinda got the impression that each ship contains its own gravity, but I see where you're coming from. Who knows. Alliance cruisers are so big, that perhaps different parts have different gravity. But, I wouldn't want to have to be he one to go from one section to another.

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

SHINYSEVEN

Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:06 AM

Perhaps Mal's reference to "terrifying Space Monkeys" was to distinguish them from the "benevolent Space Monkeys" whose faithful treadmill performance supplies the ship with gravity.

SHINY

Tuesday, July 20, 2004 2:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by NervousPete:

A form of cavorite, the Wellsian miracle substance, smeared like so much jam over the hull.

Nope. Watch the beginning of Serenity again (after the trailer, when they are finishing the salvage). As soon as they board and tell Wash they are all back, the gravity in the cargo bay re-engages and the "floating" boxes they had been dragging into the ship crash onto the floor.

"I left my heart in Seren-ity Val-ley..." <-- the farthest I've ever gotten in writing filk. ;)

WILDHEAVENFARM

Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:00 PM

Brian: This is the Physics Department.
Chris: That would explain all the gravity.
(a la "Family Guy")

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

FORRESTWOLF

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:48 AM

And here I was thinking the gravity came on when the airlock pressurized...some sort of bendy kinda heavy air :)

Seriously, the only gravity modification schemes I've heard of in fringish scientific literature involve some significant electrical current or fields. So IF Joss was by some chance (and I doubt it) basing grav control off ideas already out there, I don't see how they did it in OoG. Sure, there was battery power - but gravity should be one of those things that goes. Too much power to keep it up.

Ah, well. Clearly it was the gravity of the SITUATION that was keeping Mal on his feet...

YT

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 6:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by NervousPete:

A form of cavorite, the Wellsian miracle substance, smeared like so much jam over the hull.

Anticavorite? Smeared on the inside?

Keep the Shiny Side Up

LTNOWIS

Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:33 AM

When the ship is damaged, the power doesn't go out, except for the engine, and the life support machines that are powered by it. Everything else, like lights, gravity, doors, and shuttle launchers is ok. I would have tried rigging the lights to a radiator, but that's just me.

11THHOUR

Thursday, July 22, 2004 6:44 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Forrestwolf:
Ah, well. Clearly it was the gravity of the SITUATION that was keeping Mal on his feet...

*wince*

Oooooo... that one stung... but it's the best explanation yet!

11thHour

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"Doing the impossible makes us mighty... happy."

WHISPERING

Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:07 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by LtNOWIS:
When the ship is damaged, the power doesn't go out, except for the engine, and the life support machines that are powered by it.

Didnt the life support broke because of the explosion? Mal sayd something like "but we still have life support?", then Kaylee says something like "No, it must have got broke by the blast", and then Mal says "So what are be breathing?".

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