| Re: How to detect if you are in orbit?
Yes I am rather daunted by that Delaney's explanation (I started glazing at the same point RJM and seem to remember doing so first time I read it as well) and any attempt to simplify it without fully understanding it would probably be... unwise. However I do quite like the idea that they would need to make their way to the habitat axis (zero centrifugal force) to test that one out. Problem would be setting the marbles (or whatever) up without any intial motion. Delaney's 'iron cores' struck me as a bit of a deus ex machina; I don't think I've ever come across marbles with iron cores. Ball bearings might be a bit more plausible and surely something that would be knocking around somewhere in the machine shop of a spaceship.
Bowler once they have figured out they are in orbit I thought a little pilfering of an 'adult's' logon details followed by hacking of the system to get the real sensor data...
I'm sure you could still get marbles somewhere... |