Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 19, 2013

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    margueritem  over 11 years ago

    What a conundrum.

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    Veridian  over 11 years ago

    More like a Miscalibration of the respective AstroNavComps involved….Either that, or a severe Gravitational Gradient cause by an imminent Black Hole, A teaspoonful of Dwarf Star Alloy, or Olaf the Giant sitting down to Dinner in the Galley….. readers Choice!

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    Kali39  over 11 years ago

    Shouldn’t Brewster be standing on his head?

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    WillardMBaker  over 11 years ago

    Or the Space Station. A hodge pod of odd parts connected randomly. But a pure sphere like the Death Star is the best form for a ship, IMHO. Also, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_Sphere for the heck of it.

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    Ray_C  over 11 years ago

    It’s simple, really. The Galactic North Pole (points toward Coma Berenices) defines “up”. All star ships to this day drive with their up-side pointing toward galactic north, as long as their pilots stay sober. Now as to intergalactic space travel, there we have a problem we won’t have to worry about in our lifetimes.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_coordinate_system

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    frumdebang  over 11 years ago

    Gene Roddenberry made the decision at the very beginning of Star Trek nearly 50 years ago that all space ships would be shown “up,” and multiple ships would always be shown in the same orientation.

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    tsandl  over 11 years ago

    KHAAAAAAN!

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    GoodQuestion Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Alas, Babylon, 5 . . . ☻

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    frumdebang  over 11 years ago

    My Jeep’s GPS has “spinward” and “counter spinward” on it. Now I understand.

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    William Pellegrini Premium Member over 11 years ago

    This sounds like Congress……..

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    Lewis.F.LaHaise  over 11 years ago

    This demonstrates why flying cars would be a bad idea. More directions means more collisions.

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    Coyoty Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Interstellar etiquette suggests that the local station is oriented correctly, and visitors adopt their host’s orientation. Insisting the host is upside-down is rude.

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    SFpagan  over 11 years ago

    @ SeaFox10 It was done in Star Trek:Wrath of Khan. Kirk went to that maneuver after Spock had commented that Khan was thinking in two dimensional tactics.

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    SFpagan  over 11 years ago

    Human ships should be built with up down perspectives to make it easier for motor function brain cells to handle and in relation to gravitational force within ships. If you construct ships for micro/zero gravity then the human body has to deal with all the zero G problems that scientists are just finding out about, such as bone loss and eyeball warpage.

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