Comment Re:Whoops (Score 1) 343
Yeah, you got me there. I wasn't quite thinking clearly, apparently... It's a good thing that I haven't gotten my physics Ph.D. yet. =)
*But*, after some calculations, I can still partially salvage what the movie showed. If the Oberon was sufficiently long and pains were take with thrusters to keep it so it was perpendicular to the surface of Saturn, then the distance between the part of the station that we saw and the center of mass of the station would result in an acceleration that might function as an apparent gravitational field.
However, of course, from the relative scale of the pods and the size of the ruins, the Oberon was probably not of sufficient length (not to mention that IIRC the setup they showed, the apparent gravitational field would have been in the opposite direction).
*But*, after some calculations, I can still partially salvage what the movie showed. If the Oberon was sufficiently long and pains were take with thrusters to keep it so it was perpendicular to the surface of Saturn, then the distance between the part of the station that we saw and the center of mass of the station would result in an acceleration that might function as an apparent gravitational field.
However, of course, from the relative scale of the pods and the size of the ruins, the Oberon was probably not of sufficient length (not to mention that IIRC the setup they showed, the apparent gravitational field would have been in the opposite direction).
