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> Artificial gravity that no one ever talks about. Much the same as how most people today don't talk about how 4G works, or how pressurisation on an airliner p
by dingaling 9y ago
> Artificial gravity that no one ever talks about.
Much the same as how most people today don't talk about how 4G works, or how pressurisation on an airliner prevents them from asphyxiating. Until it stops working, like in Star Trek VI...
- carapace 9y agoYeah, but we mention 4G, pressurized cabins, what-have-you. My point is that of all the futuristic fictional technologies that ST presents and deals with: teleporters, replicators, phasors, warp drive, etc... they never ever even mention the artificial gravity. (Spoiler alert: There is one part in one of the movies where the bad guys turn it off on a ship during an attack. But still no one actually talks about it.) Arguably, gravity control would be a huge thing (Larry Niven has a book where one of the characters has developed g.c. and done spectacular things with it.)