The Expanse 3x11 Full Length Reaction
Added 2025-08-19 17:00:10 +0000 UTCWell that was some chaos!
*Please note, this is the full length version, and due to copyright restrictions, requires you to sync your own copy of the episode.
Comments
well there's a few reasons they wouldn't exist in the expanse. for one, the assumption is usually going to be that you have thrust, and therefore don't need gravity from any other source. without thrust, ships in this show are stranded, because they typically don't execute low energy transfer/slingshot orbits unless they want to get somewhere undetected, and you can't start one if you've already lost your engine. furthermore a centrifuge behaves like a gyroscope and so we have to consider gyroscopic physics. a space warship must be able to rotate at any time in any given direction, without warning. a space warship also should not be any heavier than it needs to be. gyroscopes spinning along a given axis resist any rotation along the other two axes. what this means is if your med bay has a floor-mounted centrifuge that rotates around an axis that goes from floor to ceiling, and if we have our ships oriented as we understand they are in this show where the floor points towards the engine(s) and the ceiling towards the nose, then any pitch or yaw movements by the spacecraft will face resistance from gyroscopic effects. without an extremely strong and secure frame around this gyroscope it will tear itself free if it's active on a rapidly rotating warship, and if it is secure it will affect the maneuverability of the ship immensely any time it's used. They could, of course, have these anyway and just not use them in any combat situation, but that limits their usefulness even further. There are just so many reasons it's not practical in addition to, again, generally not being necessary in the first place.
Freja Corbinne
2025-08-20 17:49:45 +0000 UTCI think every large warship would have one or more centrifuges in its sick bay. Not little ones like in medical labs nowadays, but larger ones to be able to put patients in fractional g.
Jeff Martens
2025-08-20 05:51:18 +0000 UTCThanks for getting this out. So looking to share the episode with everyone virtually and non synchronously
Scott Clarke
2025-08-19 18:20:17 +0000 UTC
