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In response to "twug, there's no artificial gravity in any hard scifi? -- nm" by mud

Depends on how far into the future you go with it. The Martian isn't far future and the book

Posted by TWuG Jun 7 '15, 12:56

IIRC only had gravity imparted by spin.

So the Hermes, as shown in that clip would only have gravity in the spinning section.

The scene showing the starfield had gravity so should have had moving stars.

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but I'm sure that I've come across what I (poorly) described on B2 in fiction somewhere .. - mud Jun 7, 13:01 2
- Possibly. I'm not sure I've encountered it. - TWuG Jun 7, 13:10 1
  - I think 2010 addressed this. We need to summon notnub. "notnub! notnub! notnub!" -- nm - mud Jun 7, 13:11

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Depends on how far into the future you go with it. The Martian isn't far future and the book

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