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What is up in space?

POSTED BY: SMUDGE
UPDATED: Thursday, January 13, 2005 19:54
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Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:33 PM

SMUDGE


This has probably been posted before but in Bushwacked and Safe when Sernity "visits" the Alliances crusies they are attached to the bottom of the hull upside down but the walk off rightside up .
What is Up and What is Down

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Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:44 PM

EBONEZER


I saw a thing on the spacestation MIR once, and all the rooms on MIR were fliped all over the place, so rightside up to one was upside down to another and sideways to another so that whenever anybody moved from one room to the other they had to orient themselves differnt to each room. (Remember, they don't have artificail gravity, so its no big deal)

Stay with me here.

Ok, so as far as I can figure, that white tubing stuff they walked through to get from Serenity to the Aliance ship does some crazy gravitational spiny thing and as people walk from one to the other they flip over so as to be oriented correctly for the vessil they're getting onto.

Make any sense?

It can also be argued that there really is no up or down in space because there is no gravity. Its all a matter of what your comparing yourself too.

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Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:54 PM

SGTGUMP


"No, no. Dig up stupid." - Chief Wiggum

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Saturday, January 8, 2005 5:41 PM

DIRTYBROWNCOAT


Way I figure it, the only way you can tell up from down in space is if you're on a ship with artificial gravity. Otherwise, there is no up and down.

Simon: You...you came for us.
Mal: You're on my crew.
Simon: Right. I guess I just didn't...you don't even like me.
Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?

-Safe

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Saturday, January 8, 2005 9:20 PM

PURPLEBELLY


Quote:

Originally posted by ebonezer:
... as people walk from one to the other they flip over so as to be oriented correctly for the vessil they're getting onto.

Only explanation that's made sense to me. I'd love to see the helical walk in the movie.

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Saturday, January 8, 2005 9:30 PM

FARSCAPEPKWARS


Quote:

Originally posted by DirtyBrowncoat:
Way I figure it, the only way you can tell up from down in space is if you're on a ship with artificial gravity. Otherwise, there is no up and down.

Simon: You...you came for us.
Mal: You're on my crew.
Simon: Right. I guess I just didn't...you don't even like me.
Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?

-Safe




Well you could go with the Galactic pull or Solar system gravitation
for example most planets in the solar system will orbit along the same plane or disk

Then most Solar-systems and Clusters will orbit in the same General direction around the core of the Galaxy.



JPL NASA picture
www.jpl.nasa.gov/



uwsp dot edu
www.uwsp.edu

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Saturday, January 8, 2005 10:16 PM

GUNRUNNER


Well with artificial gravity behind the docking tube could be a deck with a 180-degree curve that sets the people right with the rest of the ship.

For those confused (I confused my self and I knew what I was talking about) here is what I said in a primitive graphical format known as MS-Paint.


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Sunday, January 9, 2005 10:18 AM

SGTGUMP


That's kind of like an escalator.

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Sunday, January 9, 2005 11:38 AM

INEVITABLEBETRAYAL


Don't know what up is, but one thing's for sure--the enemy's gate is down.

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Sunday, January 9, 2005 6:38 PM

DIRTYBROWNCOAT


It's a trap!

Simon: You...you came for us.
Mal: You're on my crew.
Simon: Right. I guess I just didn't...you don't even like me.
Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?

-Safe

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:59 PM

NEUTRINOLAD


Quote:

Originally posted by smudge:
What is Up and What is Down



"The concept up has no intrinsic value." - Dr. Manhattan (I think, it's from memory, and a faulty one at that.)

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:24 PM

SOUPCATCHER


Quote:

Originally posted by NeutrinoLad:
"The concept up has no intrinsic value." - Dr. Manhattan (I think, it's from memory, and a faulty one at that.)


Holy Gutenberg, NeutrinoLad! That's a pretty impressive memory! You basically nailed it.

"Up" is a relative concept. It has no intrinsic value.

[Only cause my graphic novel version was sitting at arms length when I read your post and you got me curious]

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Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:54 PM

FARSCAPEPKWARS


Quote:

Originally posted by DirtyBrowncoat:
It's a trap!

Simon: You...you came for us.
Mal: You're on my crew.
Simon: Right. I guess I just didn't...you don't even like me.
Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?

-Safe



oh my gaud ! who's za flying this thing...?

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