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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9730184" data-attributes="member: 907">Babylon 5 actually had consultants from JPL working on establishing stuff on the show, and humans had a tech level that didn't include things like gravity fields. The Centauri and Minbari did, as the two highest-tech non-Elder Races, but humans and Narns did not. Due to budget issues this isn't as clear as it is in the Expanse, but when we see Earth ships they either have rotating ship sections for habitat gravity or they deal with it by being strapped into chairs.You also had JPL consultants help with designing the Starfuries. The story I've heard is that JMS asked them "How would a space fighter restricted to Newtonian physics work and look?" and they said "OK, you'd have a central capsule, and then put the engines on struts to get some distance from that in order to get leverage. And to maximize mobility, you'd want to have thrusters pointed in all sorts of directions, so put three thrusters at right angles to one another on each of the 8 struts, that'll get you six degrees of freedom." "Damn. Can we make it look less like an X-Wing?"They also make pretty good use of the Newtonian physics on the show. I can't find any good clips, but there are several scenes where we see the Starfuries do things like flip over, keep coasting in one direction, and fire in another.</blockquote>