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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I havent seen it personally BUT the way you’ve described it there it sounds like the gravity is supposed to be generated by centrifugal force, so it’s the same as when your clothes stick to the side of the washing machine drum when it’s spinning, so if the station is spinning in theory there would be no gravitational pull in any direction, but once you’re slightly off centre youd be pulled to the side yiure closest to. I’m not sure on how it would work in the vacuum of space outside the ship/ station though but I’d also imagine the film makers might have not considered that/ ignored it for artistic licence
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