Just a thought and theory about artificial gravity in #scifi, in shows like #StarTrek.
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@lydiaconwell convertibles in space. Brilliant.
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@lydiaconwell convertibles in space. Brilliant.
@seb321 The danger would be if your artificial gravity fails.
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@seb321 The danger would be if your artificial gravity fails.
@lydiaconwell it’s the one thing which is completely reliable, even when all other ship’s systems are failing. I’m thinking it’s got to be an actual ‘thing’ rather than a process. Maybe a trapped black hole somewhere in the bowels of the ship. Some kind of lensing to line up the field to work with flat floors?
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@lydiaconwell I think the roof is to stop the photon torpedoes
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@lydiaconwell You'd need really tall walls to keep the pressure in, though.
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@lydiaconwell not sure about that. my planet has gravity, and the air still goes up for *miles*
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@lydiaconwell it’s the one thing which is completely reliable, even when all other ship’s systems are failing. I’m thinking it’s got to be an actual ‘thing’ rather than a process. Maybe a trapped black hole somewhere in the bowels of the ship. Some kind of lensing to line up the field to work with flat floors?
@seb321 @lydiaconwell There's a lovely bit in one of Becky Chambers' novels where kids are playing in a park on a colony ship which has a structure with no artificial gravity.
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@lydiaconwell Both the cold and the radiation would be unbearable, though.
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@lydiaconwell it’s the one thing which is completely reliable, even when all other ship’s systems are failing. I’m thinking it’s got to be an actual ‘thing’ rather than a process. Maybe a trapped black hole somewhere in the bowels of the ship. Some kind of lensing to line up the field to work with flat floors?
@seb321 @lydiaconwell It failed on the Klingon ship in Star Trek VI. Its reliability is entirely dependent on the production budget.
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@lydiaconwell Would be nice to see an Enterprise convertible.
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@lydiaconwell I don't do a lot of writing in sci-fi, but when I do, I have a dark "shielded" observation deck for stargazing. The "shield" is just a gravity field dome a few feet think that pushes inward hard enough to make the air density drop to 0 over a few feet.
The quality of the stargazing on spaceships is maybe something I think about too much 🤔
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@lydiaconwell Maybe an open top space station, or something with constant speed. Inertia of the gas patch would cause problems when accelerating/decelerating/changing direction...
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@lydiaconwell You'd need really tall walls to keep the pressure in, though.
@StarkRG
See Ringworld by Larry Niven
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@lydiaconwell you could, but imagine the occasional solar wind whistling across the top like breath over a bottle, or maybe a warp-speed version of having one window of your car rolled down. Maybe they just don't do it because the noise is too annoying. Picard (at the top of his voice): "I SAID MAKE IT SO! WILL SOMEBODY CLOSE THE ROOF!"
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@lydiaconwell you could, but imagine the occasional solar wind whistling across the top like breath over a bottle, or maybe a warp-speed version of having one window of your car rolled down. Maybe they just don't do it because the noise is too annoying. Picard (at the top of his voice): "I SAID MAKE IT SO! WILL SOMEBODY CLOSE THE ROOF!"
@lydiaconwell I nearly had Picard swearing in that last post, but actually he'd still keep his cool, wouldn't he...
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@seb321 @lydiaconwell It failed on the Klingon ship in Star Trek VI. Its reliability is entirely dependent on the production budget.
@davidbcohen @lydiaconwell yes, I remember that because it was a first (I think). Even now, SFX struggle to do convincing zero g interior scenes. Expanse had some of the best space FX, but they had difficulty with real actors doing real things in zero g inside spaceships.
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@lydiaconwell Both the cold and the radiation would be unbearable, though.
@tkarcher @lydiaconwell That was my first thought - cold, radiation and the danger of being obliterated by some unexpected microscopic lump of galactic/interstellar dust or debris while travelling at Ludicrous Speed(tm).
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@lydiaconwell it’s the one thing which is completely reliable, even when all other ship’s systems are failing. I’m thinking it’s got to be an actual ‘thing’ rather than a process. Maybe a trapped black hole somewhere in the bowels of the ship. Some kind of lensing to line up the field to work with flat floors?
@seb321 @lydiaconwell, if it were to do with singularities, it'd have to be something like Romulan warbirds' power systems (in which case why not just use it as a general power source?) else… well, you wouldn't want it to escape containment.
Also, a quick bit of searching led to https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/2b7poz/why_artificial_gravity_never_goes_offline/ where there's some interesting discussion of this. Some failures are mentioned.
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Sorry to be "well actually", but atmosphere is also moved aways from planet by solar winds.
So you would have to have some sort of shield (which would probably be there either way) to stop electrons hitting your athmosphere.Also - you would probably get ton of radiation without any shield / shielding.
https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/what-are-the-effects-of-solar-wind-on-earths-atmosphere
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@informapirata @gnulinuxitalia d'altronde è come su windo... ah no?!
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Cyber Index PMI 2025: i 4 livelli di maturità del tessuto imprenditoriale italiano
@informatica
Pmi italiane meno immature, ma strada ancora lunga da percorrere per asdottare le misure di protezione adeguate ai rischi cyber. Ecco cosa fotografa il Cyber Index PMI 2025 che misura l'indice di maturità delle Pmi
L'articolo Cyber Index PMI
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@cagliari @superenea
La battuta deriva dall'infelice titolo dell'Unione Sarda. Titoli del tipo "sorpresa nel cantiere..." di solito si riferiscono a casi di ladruncoli che si introducono nei cantieri per fregare rame, ferro o materiale edile :-D
