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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by B.J.: [QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [qb](Yes, B-5 tried to explain theirs away with rotating sections of the ship but this falls a little flat upon closer inspection)[/qb][/QUOTE]I'm curious as to why you say this? I don't remember seeing any problems with the way they showed it. B.J.[/QUOTE]It was made clear in the series that the Earth Alliance didn't have advanced artifical gravity and relied on spin and centrifugal force to create artifical gravity. Only after the alliance with the Minbara and the fusion of Minbari and Vorlon tech to create the White Stars did humans gain access to other forms of artifical gravity. As an object spins it creates gravity. The amount of gravity lessens toward the center (with 0 gravity at the center) and increases toward the rim. Cylindrical objects work best for this type of gravidty because of the even distribution of gravity all around. B-5 the station worked pretty good. I don't know how many decks exist away from the center toward the outer rim. However, these decks should have reflected changes in gravity. Maybe the station was big enough that the difference in gravity was negligable. I'm sure the stats for the staion are out there somewhere and someone could do the math to find out. My impression of ops, however, is one of the flaws. Ops seemed to be right above the entrance to the landing bay. Ops didn't rotate with the rest of the station. Where did the gravity come from? The same holds for the Earth Alliance ships. There were rotating portions of the ships, but it didn't look like the entire crew and all the ship systems were in that rotating portion. Where was the bridge located? If not in the rotating section, where did the gravity come from? The Hyperion Class ships don't appear to have a rotating section at all. Where did the gravity come from? It's little things like that. On the surface I never thought about it. Earth Alliance ships were shown with rotating portions and B-5 obviously rotated to create artifical gravity. But when I started to try to match up the inside with the outside I got a little confused... It's no big deal for me though. Would cost way to much to have the ships be 0g, therefore science fiction ships have artifical gravity. People don't watch TV to read subtitles all day, so most everyone speaks English all the time. These factors don't ruin my suspension of disbelief. But they do provide fodder to dwell on. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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