Iain Coleman ijc@bas.ac.uk wrote:

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Alison Page wrote:

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The Liberator appears to have artificial gravity, but that could be Alta technology. The pursuit ships seem to have it too, and they are Federation. The scientific research station (forget name) in 'Breakdown' doesn't spin does it? I'm blanking out on Space Command. Are we sure it spins?

It either spins, or is consistently filmed from a rotating camera.

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I think that if you have artificial gravity you can get by with much lower tech in respect of everything else that you do.

I don't understand what you mean by that.

Iain

Perhaps the reason why Avon can shove the bit of neutron star in Shuttle the last foot or so is that the artificial gravity 'fades out' near the door - the fragment of star then just moves under momentum (and how was the bit of neutron star obtained in the first place - slightly difficult to 'mine' I would imagine)

Jacqui

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