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u/Jeoshua 1d ago edited 1d ago
This kind of representation of a space station honestly always annoys me. Yes, it's very pretty... but where is "down" in the image? If this is what it appears to be, namely a Stanford Torus, the central hub should be in the center, with centrifugal lines of artificial gravity going outward from the center. But it's not rotating, at all. Down appears to be around the edge, somehow.
It could also be a space elevator counterweight station, but same problem occurs with that. "Up" should toward the planet, with Earth appearing to be above us. So you would need to be on the far end of the station, with "Down" being starward. In no configuration would Earth be laterally outside the window while "Down" is where it appears to be in this image.
Maybe I'm overthinking it, but these kind of errors always pull me out of the image and make m,e cringe.
Also, where's the "punk" here? This is just futuristic space stuff.
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u/imreading 1d ago
I agree. If it was a Stanford Torus of roughly that size the rotation would be very noticeable, as well as the "gravity" being at 90 degrees to how it is shown as you said.
Watch this wonderful animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiPmgW21rwY by Erik Wernquist, it gives you a feeling of how fast a station of this size would have to spin. Frankly it looks quite disorienting.
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u/PhasmaFelis 1d ago
Sci-fi can be more than just pretty pictures. There's a reason it's called science fiction.
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u/Nonterras 1d ago edited 1d ago
No thanks.
I'd rather have religious wars and runaway capitalism.
Edit: /s
christ...
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u/IceZaKYT 1d ago
its so interesting how in the present and near future people dream about going to space, but sometime people in space will dream about going to earth, especially if they lived in other star systems and still knew the origins of humanity