Question about people and objects inside the stations
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Veritasium or Vsauce (not sure which one, now) made a video about it. If the radius is large enough and rotation slow enough, you don't notice the coriolis effect. IIRC it was something like 5km in diameter.
So people in Orbis rings would be okay. The docking area wouldn't be good for prolonged stay, I guess. That's why people in Elite live in the outside structure of stations and work inside.
So people in Orbis rings would be okay. The docking area wouldn't be good for prolonged stay, I guess. That's why people in Elite live in the outside structure of stations and work inside.
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How come the buildings on the Coriolis stations are aligned to the flat faces and not perpendicular to the axis of spin? As it stands now everyone in them will be leaning over to one side. 
How come the buildings on the Coriolis stations are aligned to the flat faces and not perpendicular to the axis of spin? As it stands now everyone in them will be leaning over to one side.
I always thought that, but I thought that I wasn't scientifically literate and must have misunderstood physics, glad you asked.
The weirdest observation I've made is seeing stairs at outpost hangars. Why in the Maker's name would you need stairs in zero-g?
Magnetized boots.
Magnetic boots?
All stations have their own micro gravity (it even says low-gravity near your ship pod). So it's not zero-g.
Wait - *outpost* (non-spinning) stations have micro-gravity? How?
Or no ramps. Because you can just walk straight up the wall or detach the magboots and float over there.
Oh yes, outposts... I thought stations. But still, I thought they all generate their gravity regardless of the spinning? You know, some 34th century tech.
Yeah, same here, I'll never go near them with free camera again, if I'd modeled them, it would have been without wheels rather than static ones, made them hover vehicles instead.
Microgravity is the term used for the tiny bit of gravity felt in orbit of a body (or anywhere in space, really). There's effectively never *zero* gravity. The sign on outposts is a warning that there is no appreciable gravity.
No artificial gravity in Elite, just centripedal force in starports and on Majestics.
No artificial gravity in Elite, just centripedal force in starports and on Majestics.
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I have a little question generally referred to the life of the inhabitants and pilots of the world of dangerous elite: but on ED ships we have gravity generators or similar technologies that simulate gravity artificially? I mean while we are traveling away from the stations ... do our ships create a minor gravity range or do we use all (including passengers) magnetic boots?
From all the lore, just boots. It's possible to accelerate a ship at a constant rate (~10m/s/s for 1G) and fake it for a while IRL, but otherwise its just boots (and socks, mentioned in MB's ED: Legacy).
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Err. Hover vehicles would be buzzing all over the place. Some form of roller coaster rails, would be better. Do FD know how to make that kind of animated transport system?
thanks for the infos... another question: for socks you mean??? socks? you mean the socks for human like that:
sorry for the strange question but I am surprised of the magnetic socks ^_^"
Yep, socks. Iirc the electromagnetic side of things is in the floor, so the boots/socks just need to have conductive elements. Not sure if this means everywhere or just in long term (non-rotational) habitation.
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WAO! the technological wonders of 3300... XD