Pinbacker

[moonlight]

Does anyone actually know whats happening when Pinbacker drops Capa over the edge when his arm rips and they end up falling and then standing up on the side of a wall? Please explain. lol. thanks

[originalusername]

Ok, stay with me, 'cause this is kinda complicated and I explain terribly. Also, SPOILERS!
First, the scene.
(yes I suck.)
Zombie Pinbacker has killed Corazon, removed the Icarus Mainframe from cooling, and slashed Capa. Capa is locked in the airlock, in a compression vest to keep from bleeding out. Cassie and zombie Pinbacker are fighting through Icarus II. Mace is putting the mainframe back in the coolant while pleading Capa to manually launch the Stellar Bomb. He gets lodged in the coolant and freezes to death. Capa uses the pressure of the vacuum of space to break open the airlock, then proceeds to launch the bomb. Then, he leaps out to the airlock on the bomb to perform launch operations. Pinbacker and Cassie are fighting on the bomb core, and Capa joins in. Cassie is knocked to the side, and Pinbacker is holding Capa over the edge of the core.
Now, the Stellar Bomb is made of half of the fissile material on earth. A huge cube of extremely dense material, which just happens to have it's own gravity.

The Huge arrow is the gravity of the sun. Now, Cassie recovers, and rips the skin on zombie Pinbacker's arm, throwing Capa and Cassie off the edge of the Core. They are, at first pulled down by the gravity of the side they are on, but are then pulled towards the center of the cube by that side's gravity,and the sun's. So, instead of falling off into nowhere, they are pulled toward the center of the cube.

If I'm not clear,let me know.

TL;DR
The bomb has gravity.

[warduria]

Thanks your information.
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[hongi]

That was amazing.

[vichar]

This is a good explanation. However, the filming was not nearly so coherent. If that's really what happened, there would have been no "falling" involved. In fact, at all points outside the cube you would be pulled towards the center of the cube's mass. Since they are in fact free-falling towards the sun, the effect of the Sun's gravity is negated by their positive acceleration towards the sun (like a plane that is falling towards the earth--like the "vomit comet" plane they use to simulate null gravity for astronaut training), so relative to the cube they would not experience any additional movement due to the sun's gravity (they and the cube are already free-falling / accelerating towards the sun)

In fact, what they probably would have experienced would have resembled walking on the moon, on a smaller scale. Very, very low local gravity, and the ability to "leap" really high off the cube before "falling" back towards its surface.

[sonnenwind]

Perhaps it wasn't the cube's natural gravity but artificial sci fi gravity generators attached on all sides of the cube. They obviously had artificial gravity on the rest of the ship.