Originally Posted by rleete (Post 603482)

You're kidding, right? The city is the damn problem. That and all the holes in Albany. Upstate is good, it's the NY taxes/regulations that suck.

Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 602235)

True this. I guess I'll give him a cookie for that. :D


Along with the first example of Newtonian physics in a dogfight, that was one of the things that I appreciated about Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica. They caved a bit towards the middle of the series (the exodus from New Caprica stands out in particular), but at least the acknowledged the general idea.



The most obvious example is when Chandra has just gotten back into Leonov after the booster firing, he's walking down a corridor with Floyd and Curnow, and he tosses the power-cutoff-thingy (the one controlled by the red calculator) back to Floyd. Leonov is still hard-coupled to Discovery and is not accelerating, so there should be no gravity anywhere on that ship.




I happened to watch 2001 and 2010 back to back. It's only a guess, but based on Poole's movement through the ship, I believe that accessway 2 would put you out into the core, down through the middle of the sphere, and then into the rear of the pod bay in the middle. When Floyd followed was-Bowman into the pod bay, they entered from the side (the left side, as viewed from the perspective of a person sitting in the driver's seat).

EDIT:
Actually, that might work IF the ring is in configuration #2 below. Accessway 1 would be to one side, 2 would be in the middle, and 3 would be on the other side. But still, there should be no gravity in the accessways to hold Curnow's ass to the floor.

Hell, the whole ship is just a piece of fiction anyway...


Yes, I do remember that. The one time they're actually upright, they're standing on the side of the spine that it moving away from them. Good catch, fellow geek. ;)


They never actually say. And granted, Discovery is a bit of a TARDIS (it's larger on the inside than the outside), but I see three possibilities.

We'll give directions from the point of view of a person standing outside Discovery directly in front of it, looking back towards the ship. And we know that the ship is tumbling in pitch (falling forward, if you will) based on the orientation of the engine nozzles, the flight deck window, and the main antenna when they first approach it.

1: Envision that from top to bottom there are three decks. The flight deck is on top, then the ring (on its side, with the "axle" that the ring rotates on running top to bottom) and then the pod bay is at the bottom. I think that this configuration is best supported by 2001, even though the ring probably wouldn't fit into the available space between the pod bay and the flight deck. This configuration would cause Discovery to tumble in yaw around the sphere as the ring coasted down.

2: The ring's axle might run from front to back (coaxial with the spine), such that the ring is behind the flight deck and the pod bay. And in this orientation, the ship would wind up simply rolling around the long axis of the spine- not very visually dramatic.

3: The only configuration that would cause the ship to tumble in pitch would place the ring's center axle running from left to right, and this would cause the ring itself to run right through the middle of both the flight deck and the pod bay. And even at that, the center of rotation would still be the sphere, and not the middle of the spine.


Holy cow... I can't believe I thought that hard about this. I think I've actually just lost respect for myself. I have had far too much to drink tonight, and it is officially time for bed.

Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 603795)

dont hate on america.

Originally Posted by levnubhin (Post 603892)

Doh :facepalm: Do you ever wash that thing?

Originally Posted by WonTon (Post 603927)

BTW! i forgot how good lunchable pizzas are....its been a few years, damn.

Originally Posted by pusha (Post 603879)

i'm not sure where to go from here.

Originally Posted by WonTon (Post 603927)

BTW! i forgot how good lunchable pizzas are....its been a few years, damn.

Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 603984)

haha. stop being such a troll, did you honestly not do anything?

Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 604058)