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Majin B'lanna
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 Thu Dec 05, 2002 9:23 pm how come every ship they meet is right side up? |
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well why? in space there is no up.
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Hitomi
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| Fri Dec 06, 2002 11:13 am |
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It's puzzling isnt it? You would think that since space allows a ship to easily point and move in any direction that when a ship meets another ship one of them would be pointed in some crazy direction, like upside down and sideways. I guess they do it simply to make it less confusing to the viewers, although in this case it seems to be causing confusion..... 
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syd2002
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| Fri Dec 06, 2002 7:56 pm |
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I agree.
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PrankishSmart
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| Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:02 am |
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well it would be strange if ships meet up side down
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Tremiles
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| Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:20 am |
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Actualy their is a very logical explination, all ships are oriented to the cilectial disk(All planets are on a lane anll universes are on a flat plane. if you look at the galaxy frome above it looks round, but if you look at the galaxy from the side it looks like a straight line. so all the ships align to that flatness.
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alisa_2002000
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| Sat Dec 07, 2002 2:37 am |
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Cool i never knew that
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Majin B'lanna
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| Sat Dec 07, 2002 4:00 am |
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we had to learn that in science
it woulbe interesting though if ships were askewed and upside down
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Hitomi
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| Sun Dec 08, 2002 1:04 am |
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| Tremiles wrote: | | Actualy their is a very logical explination, all ships are oriented to the cilectial disk(All planets are on a lane anll universes are on a flat plane. if you look at the galaxy frome above it looks round, but if you look at the galaxy from the side it looks like a straight line. so all the ships align to that flatness. |
True, but the galaxy is not like a sheet of paper, there is plenty of room to move up and down, and there are a whole mess of planets which dont conform to the rotation effect. Therefore at some point you should have one ship meeting another which is completely askewed.
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PrankishSmart
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| Sun Dec 08, 2002 2:21 am |
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well there has to be a right way up, like a 'universal standard'.
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Captain Michael Pike
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| Sun Dec 08, 2002 12:55 pm |
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There is a very simple explanantion to this...I heard somewhere that all starships interface with subspace beacons before they meet. This correctly orients the ships so that they are "right side up".
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Hitomi
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| Mon Dec 09, 2002 12:00 pm |
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That makes sense, but then how do the beacons tell which way is up? I guess they could determine which way they are pointed based on the stars. But even in the frenzy of battle, like many of the skirmishes on DS9, almost all the ships are facing right way up, and fighting on a horizontal plane. The only ones you see upside down are the ones that have been destroyed or crippled.
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PrankishSmart
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| Tue Dec 10, 2002 12:21 am |
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| Hitomi wrote: | | That makes sense, but then how do the beacons tell which way is up? I guess they could determine which way they are pointed based on the stars. But even in the frenzy of battle, like many of the skirmishes on DS9, almost all the ships are facing right way up, and fighting on a horizontal plane. The only ones you see upside down are the ones that have been destroyed or crippled. |
this tends to agree with Captain Michael Pike's theory, once the ships beacon goes offline, this it does not know 'up'
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Captain Michael Pike
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| Tue Dec 10, 2002 12:34 am |
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Well...it was a better answer than it's cheaper for the FX team to make them all "fly" the same way. LOL!
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Tremiles
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| Tue Dec 10, 2002 1:31 am |
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| Hitomi wrote: | | Tremiles wrote: | | Actualy their is a very logical explination, all ships are oriented to the cilectial disk(All planets are on a lane anll universes are on a flat plane. if you look at the galaxy frome above it looks round, but if you look at the galaxy from the side it looks like a straight line. so all the ships align to that flatness. |
True, but the galaxy is not like a sheet of paper, there is plenty of room to move up and down, and there are a whole mess of planets which dont conform to the rotation effect. Therefore at some point you should have one ship meeting another which is completely askewed. |
They wouldent meet asqued they would only meet with one slightly tilted forword or backword
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Dr. Jetrel
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| Fri Dec 13, 2002 3:53 pm |
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harry_kim
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| Sun Dec 15, 2002 12:14 pm |
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They have ships right side up just so things don't look so weird, I think.
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Aluminum Flower
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| Sun Dec 15, 2002 6:30 pm |
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you can never say any way is up
up is always above your head.....isnt it?
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Hitomi
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| Wed Dec 18, 2002 11:52 am |
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true true.... 
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Zeke Zabertini
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| Fri Dec 20, 2002 10:37 pm |
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There really is no excellent explanation for why ships meet both with the same side up, but in regular space, with only one ship, we can assume that the view is just oriented that way.
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Captain Matt UssVoyager
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| Mon Jan 06, 2003 2:37 pm how come every ship they meet is right side up |
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because there is no up side to side or down and they have stablizers in all starships
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