In David Weber's Honorverse, artificial gravity is based on the drive system, and was routinely considered both in ship design and battle outcomes.

Well, not free. Acceleration usually requires a bunch of energy.

I guess if you have to do it anyway then it's a really convenient side-effect.

the expanse is the only universe where Epstein actually killed himself

Not magic. The artificial gravity stabilizers are directly enhanced by the production budget stabilizers, which keep them in check.

Wait how is that murphy's law

Edit: AHA - you couldn't remember what it actually is and wanted a nerd to give you the right answer!

I am very very mildly smart!

guys I think it's a soap opera

It always was, but it was our soap opera with spaceships and laser guns.

Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales

A go to for sick days in bed for years.

Yes, and continue on about 30 years after the show, giving an actual conclusion to the story.

To be fair; if you could build a fusion torch and fully direct the flow; aneutronic fusion fits the bill; the thrust numbers they are using are not crazy.

You would use stupid amount of fuel to get that much delta-v; but with advanced reactors using readily available fuel sources....maybe not an issue.

I prefer it that way.

Yeah, it's not even that much of a stretch, like that future could be within humanity's reach. Not sure we'd actually want that particular future, but there's just something about realistic sci fi that makes this reality feel cooler.

The triangles are supposed to be their cybertronian forms before they disguised themselves as earth vehicles.

Strap in and wait for the juice, the show never really leaves our solar system

I never know the number, but I know the whales!

Definitely!

Precisely! A butterfly flaps its wings in Tokyo, and two weeks later in Denver, a black cat walks under a ladder while Myrphy is working on some cables.

Up until the space magic bullshit, anyway.

starships have redundancies most likely, much like the life support systems. its like artificial gravity isnt coming from an actual generator, but the whole ship itself in some unknown mechanism, most scifi genre dont explain how its being created, it looks more like an energy field throughout the whole ship generated from every "system" in the internally.

So disappointing when the hand waving started.

and had her own PERSONAL UNIVERSE she got trapped in.

i think its plating for trek, thats why you can turn it off in some areas and not others. cant say the same for other shows, they likely use a similar mechanism.

But in their robot forms they still looked like jets

Well the show didn't finish the story.

E: though, it didn't get less "magical", just more explained in a soft-scifi sense.

Matter/antimatter would theoretically be a lot better.

You mean Bolognese?

Indeed.

Total energy available is higher, but that reaction produces radiation as the primary product. Radiation is difficulty to properly direct.

Fusion (aneutronic) produces the bulk of the energy as charged particles, which we can direct with magnetic or electric fields.

The movie with Sandra Bullock trapped in space?

Well... Star Trek The Undiscovered Country.

Titan AE

"Just think of it as floaty time!"

It would make sweeping really hard.

I always thought of mini black holes in the floors.

I am a big fan of sci-fi and understand how expensive weightlessness is to film, so combine that with the amount of shows that have been canceled and I completely accept the fact that they try to keep this more fictional than science.

Yep! One of the more rememberable parts... Floating pink Klingon blood droplets everywhere!

Well, now I am

I wouldn't know, it got stupid well before the end

What you’re really saying is there aren’t enough big budget sci fi things to watch.

I assume that the Federation has better space OSHA regulations that mandate more reliable artificial gravity than the Klingons.

They also made amazing computerized wire rigs for the actors they used in conjunction with motion-controlled cameras. The production of the show was super impressive.

Also - everyone should read the books. They're fantastic.

Ty Frank, one of the authors and the Amos actor Wes Chatham had a really fun podcast ("Ty and That Guy") that did lots of fun deep dives on genre stuff.

I like the movie and atmosphere but damn the villains are whack

I wish there were some spinoff or something similar.

Uhm excuse me, it's called a space opera.

Could be an oversight or animation error

It wasn't

There are a few tie in novels iirc. I read one a long time ago that took place during the time skip after earth blows up.