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Old 01-13-2012, 04:45 PM   #70
GlennD
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan View Post
I would've loved a moment on the original Star Trek episode The Doomsday Machine, when Kirk and co beam over to the "dead" USS Constellation: If the gravity had been dead, the guys could've beamed over, immediately gone adrift, and someone (McCoy, probably) could've said, "Oh, crap."
It could also be interesting to deal with the consequences of losing artificial gravity during battle manuevering - presumably artificial gravity is what allows the contents of a vessel to ignore intertia.
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