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Originally posted by amnesiack:
I don't know if this has been discussed here before (probably), but I thought I'd bring it up anyway. How do ships in the 'verse maintain gravity on board, especially ships as small as Serenity? The acceptable pseudo-answer is that if they have the technology to terraform uninhabitable planets, then they could have the technology to produce artificial gravity without any sort of spin. That's fine. The question, then, becomes why in "Out of Gas" did the gravity not fail when they lost power? Surely an anti-gravity field would take at least as much power (and likely much more) to function as the life support system would. Any thoughts?

I do, of course realize that (a) Joss and co. are about story-telling, not science and (b) it's expensive and time-consuming to do the wire-work necessary to simulate zero-g in a television show. However, I still think it's a worthy question to ponder.

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Originally posted by est120:

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Originally posted by amnesiack:
I don't know if this has been discussed here before (probably), but I thought I'd bring it up anyway. How do ships in the 'verse maintain gravity on board, especially ships as small as Serenity? The acceptable pseudo-answer is that if they have the technology to terraform uninhabitable planets, then they could have the technology to produce artificial gravity without any sort of spin. That's fine. The question, then, becomes why in "Out of Gas" did the gravity not fail when they lost power? Surely an anti-gravity field would take at least as much power (and likely much more) to function as the life support system would. Any thoughts?

I do, of course realize that (a) Joss and co. are about story-telling, not science and (b) it's expensive and time-consuming to do the wire-work necessary to simulate zero-g in a television show. However, I still think it's a worthy question to ponder.

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well, as for the gravity on the ship under normal working conditions, i always just assumed that the rotating thing with the lights was part of that.

as for the episode out of gas, i think you just have to look at the storytelling rather than continuity and remember than wire work for that long would be incredibly time consuming and probably expensive.

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