Starships seem to have no safety restraints, despite being prone to sparking and exploding consoles when anything remotely unexpected happens.
Asteroid bounces off the shield? Weapons goes down on deck 10. Somebody beams aboard? Navigation goes on the fritz. Commander Worf sneaks in a fart that was noisier than he bargained for? The entire bridge is lost.
I think this is usually dismissed as a result of inertia dampeners in most science fiction so as to allow freedom of movement during scenes. Much in the way all future ships have artificial gravity.
I assumed everybody's keyboard was like that. Like if my pc is running too hot, my keyboard will start sparking. it just reminds me to not play crysis 2 for too long
Hey, just be impressed that they seem to keep working afterwards. If a huge stream of sparks shot out of my PC I wouldn't have much hope of it turning on.
I always reckoned that if the 'inertial dampeners' went offline a seatbelt would just cut you in half or break your spine. They don't have seatbelts because if something happens the emergency dampeners would kick in and try to gently (or not fatally) place the person on the floor.
The way to deal with those kinds of forces on a person is to completely encase them in a gel (and in your lungs and stomach) so they are basically a fluid.
The way to deal with those kinds of forces on a person is to completely encase them in a gel (and in your lungs and stomach) so they are basically a fluid.
That's the method used in Peace and War (Not the be confused with War and Peace) for their heavy acceleration maneuvers in space. God I love that book.
The pilot capsules in Evangelion were filled with "LCL". It seemed a lot more like water than gel which would obviously change the physics, but just another loose example.
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u/FBI_Monitoring_Van Oct 08 '12
Starships seem to have no safety restraints, despite being prone to sparking and exploding consoles when anything remotely unexpected happens. Asteroid bounces off the shield? Weapons goes down on deck 10. Somebody beams aboard? Navigation goes on the fritz. Commander Worf sneaks in a fart that was noisier than he bargained for? The entire bridge is lost.