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Re: Alien and gravity
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Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:13:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Steve Lane writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
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> > I just saw Aliens again this weekend, and I have another question. Why
> > does a ship the size of New Jersey (or whatever its size--it's really big,
> > though) only hold a staff of a dozen marines?
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> That's down sizing for you.
"We're looking for a few good men and women, and we *do* mean a few."
> > Much of the motivation for
> > putting people in hypersleep is to save life support (and boredom, of
> > course), so what's the rest of the ship for?
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> Perhaps gravity genarators are very large pieces of equipment?
Not bad, and not inconsistent with most of what we see. Would there have
been sufficient gravity, then, for the alien and Ripley to fall into the
airlock? That would imply that the generator (or projector) is very thin
(as thin as the outer hatch) or that the projector need not be directly
beneath the area in which gravity is to be simulated. Hmm...
> > It's a battleship, I imagine, so it could house massive weapons and
> > propulsion systems, but these weren't needed
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> I'd say the propulsion systems WE'RE needed.
Oops! My error. The movie would have been a lot shorter if the ship
couldn't go anywhere! 8^) I meant the massive and presumably ship-to-ship
weapons systems.
> > (and, I would suggest, there was no clear reason to think they
> > *might* have been needed, since there was no indication of an invading,
> > largescale alien force, or they would have sent more than a dozen grunts!)
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> Perhaps the ship is multipurpose and designed to fight it's way into a
> heavily defended area in order to drop in a small group of commadoes.
Interesting. I wouldn't be too confident in leaving my ship undefended
except for the two stay-behind grunts aboard, though. I'd still like a full
complement of at least artificial people.
Dave!
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| (...) Ha Ha :-) (...) Your assuming that space ship gravity is a pulling force, it would work just as well as a pushing force. A central gravity core could send out 'reverse gravity' pushing everything outwards toward the hull. (...) Ha Ha again, (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) That's down sizing for you. (...) Perhaps gravity genarators are very large pieces of equipment? (...) I'd say the propulsion systems WE'RE needed. (...) Perhaps the ship is multipurpose and designed to fight it's way into a heavily defended (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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