• Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, good point. And fuel density and accessibility.

    I guess I just really like space physics without fake gravity, but instead being generated by thrust. And the realism of the time everything takes to travel.

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      18 hours ago

      Fuel’s easy, they have fusion reactors.

      Now, how the fusion reactors work is a little more hand-wavy…but they are definitely proton-proton chain, not deuterium-tritium, so any old water will do, and the solar system has a lot of water.

      In fact, the main cast were crew on a water hauler before shit kicked off

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Yeah they really nailed the space combat. It’s exhilarating to watch. In Star Trek they don’t have any of those things going on because the ships are big and slow during combat, and because they have inertial dampers that cancel the inertial forces experienced by the crew using hand-wavey magic. Heh.