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millerm
on April 3, 2013
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If the Earth were 100 pixels wide
How about you just imagine the ship is rotating on an axis for artificial gravity generation. Then, if you were looking out the window, you would see the starfield whizzing by. :-)
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vacri
on April 3, 2013
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Interesting idea - all the scifi I've ever seen has had ships rotating around the axis of travel, but never orthogonal to it.
millerm
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The axis wouldn't matter. You wouldn't notice which direction you were going (well I suppose if you noticed the sun, darn).
marshray
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Sure, but then I have no sense at all of the distance traveled.
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