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Space is 2D, right? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What’s weirder to me is how ships are oriented to a planet. Especially if they left atmosphere just a while ago. So they left the planet and then decided to orient the ship and align the vertical axis of the ship with the axis of the planet just for looks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's to reduce the profile they expose to the planetary defenses.

Star Trek Production Excuses Intern, probably

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

KSP taught me what orbits are and Star Trek taught me that they are just not that important

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In fairness if you have basically unlimited thrust, maintaining a forced orbital position would be pretty cheap, you could hover as close as you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If KSP had an antimatter based engine, you'd get the same conclusion there too.