If you watched the movie, you will probably understand what I meant since it’s part of the ending scenes where they need to grab some oxygen from the tanks.
If you didn’t, let me “try” to explain: their ship is composite by two endings connected by long poles with a solar panel in the middle. Something goes wrong and they need to move from and ending to another ( let’s call it Point A to Point B). To do that, they start to “climb” outside Point A these poles until they reach the “middle” mark, and then they start to descent, like the gravity was inverted, until they reach point B.Is that a real physical contempt? If so, what’s it’s called and how it works?
PS: the spaceship is spinning during their whole voyage to Mars.
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> their ship is composite by two endings connected by long poles with a solar panel in the middle
Their ship is connected by *cables* and the two ends are spinning around that center point to provide tension in the cables and artificial spin gravity in the pods at the end
The ship functions like a weird [Round up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Up_(ride)) where everything is rotating around that central pod with solar panels. Since both point A and point B are spinning, both are trying to be flung away from the central point but are held in by their cables, but if you were to try to climb those cables, you would feel the centrifugal force pushing you down the cable and away from the central pod regardless of if you’re going to Point A or Point B, you’re always flung *away* from the center
[Scott Manley apparently got to weigh in on their ship design and has a good video explaining how it works](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCwXJMVVdck)
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