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WCDT: 2131-35 (27 Feb- 2 Mar 2012) QC IN SPAAAAAACE! Week 6
Kugai:
--- Quote from: DSL on 03 Mar 2012, 16:40 ---Wonder how a hovering object would work in a centripetal-gravity environment? The killbots are essentially sitting on frictionless bearings, so would inertia/Coriolis effect make them appear, from the POV of an observer standing on the "floor," to move to antispinward? Would they compensate by propelling themselves spinward? That would give them a straight-line vector which would be countered by the action of their lift fans (for practical purposes the same as the observer's feet pressing against the rim "floor" ... not the same as the action-reaction of the lift fans but the effect would be the same). OK, so this could work ...
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Have a chat with V.I.N.Cent.
DSL:
Nothin' rotating in that movie but the fake black hole ... though the Palomino suffered from selective artificial gravity.
Redball:
--- Quote from: DSL on 03 Mar 2012, 19:03 ---Nothin' rotating in that movie but the fake black hole ... though the Palomino suffered from selective artificial gravity.
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For me, one of the interesting/educational things about falling into the QC-verse are the unfamiliar language and cultural references. I've followed herp and derp and a lot of other words into the Urban Dictionary, and just followed The Black Hole and the Palomino into Wikipedia. What a journey!
Akima:
--- Quote from: DSL on 03 Mar 2012, 19:03 ---Nothin' rotating in that movie but the fake black hole ...
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Rotating knives and drills.
DSL:
--- Quote from: Akima on 04 Mar 2012, 00:37 ---
--- Quote from: DSL on 03 Mar 2012, 19:03 ---Nothin' rotating in that movie but the fake black hole ...
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Rotating knives and drills.
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OK, no rotating environments in that movie but the fake black hole, then ...
Yeeminy Cheesemas.
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