Em Aurora, por que a gravidade da bordo aumentou para 1.1g?

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Na Aurora de Kim Stanley Robinson:

During the return trip to Earth, (I assume) after all the passengers are hibernated, the ship increases its spin gravity from 0.8g to 1.1g. Then after the ship blows up, the Humans theorize that it is to make the transition to Earth easier. But earlier the Iris colonists had absolutely no issues with the local stronger gravity. Did I miss the ship ever mentioning (or even implying) a real reason?

(spoiler book ending)

    
por Matěj Zábský 26.12.2015 / 12:19

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A citação do romance parece oferecer algumas alternativas, mas nada genuinamente definitivo . Freya postula que isso faria com que os retornadores se sentissem mais leves. Badim argumenta que pode ser porque os computadores do navio não tinham calibração depois de terem sido reprogramados durante a revolta de 1968.

They are in 1g, by definition, but the voyagers decide, and the records in the computers they brought down with them confirm, that they were living in something close to 1.1g for most of their voyage home. Why the ship did this, they cannot determine from the records they have.

Freya says to Badim, “It must have done it to make sure we felt light when we got here.”

“Yes, I guess that’s possible. I suppose. But I wonder too if there was some programming done by the people in Year 68, some kind of alteration that left the ship with no frame of reference. We can ask it when it comes around the sun.”

Não parece haver uma solução para isso, exceto, talvez, a implicação sutil de que pode ter sido simplesmente um teste de programação que nunca foi revertido ou que tinha alguma coisa relacionada à regime de "esquecimento forçado".

    
20.02.2016 / 01:51