• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Why would they even need seat belts? The ship clearly has some form of artificial gravity technology, which they could just use to keep people in their seats despite random accelerations caused by impacts and explosions.

    For that matter, why do do they even need seats? The artificial gravity could just keep people in a sitting position.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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      3 months ago

      They have “intertial dampeners” which are supposed to stop it from ever happening, but apparently they never work.

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        3 months ago

        Also leaning … leaning increases the ability of the ship to make tight turns in flight.