Ever find yourself in the middle of research suddenly realizing that a show from years ago got things a lot more right than they should have? That happened to me with Space 1999, a show that somehow managed to design a moonbase that could have come from a current NASA design study...
Read all about it here:
https://robert-b-marks.medium.com/the-remarkable-accuracy-of-space-1999s-moonbase-alpha-6f57460f1049
#space #sciencefiction #television #tv #scifi #space1999 #science #moon #artemis #NASA
@robertbmarks I think Sternbach and Okuda figured out a rationalisation for #artificialgravity for the purposes of #startrek published in their Next Generation Technical Manual back in the actual 1990's. Whether the Andersons' team thought of something similar, I don't know.
As for the life support limits...I have come to believe that it came down to budgets and politics of Alpha's financial backers. Sure, they could grow their own food. Money decided the staffing levels anyway.
@DEWLine I've actually got that book - bought it back in the 1990s. My favourite part was the structural integrity field...apparently, they put that in when they did the calculations and discovered that the Enterprise-D was so big that the hull would collapse as soon as it started accelerating.
Don't remember what they said about the gravity, though.
Robert B. Marks
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