I just started watching this today. the shot of the ark during the opening scene shows one of the spheres tilted/bent. how do they live in there?
shareThey each have artificial gravity of course, so it wouldn't matter how any of the domes were oriented.
shareThat said, I can't think of any REASON for having one at some angle like that.
shareWell the calamity that is ultimately causing the ship to head towards a star probably DAMAGED the ship, the tilted dome which I did see is likely the result of damage, and I wonder if that killed the environment.
shareThat might be possible, but it looks more like it was that way originally from the start.
On the other hand, events in the episode Farthing's Comet suggest that at least one dome lost atmosphere due to Farthing's actions. Any people in THAT dome would certainly have died.
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Yes, that's how I figured it too. Because of it being "symmetrical" like that.
From a strictly practical viewpoint, and considering they obviously had some form of artificial gravity anyway, they could have had more space - fit more domes into the overall design - if they were all turned 90 degrees from the main ship body. And then maybe had the main ship body's "floor" orientation be the same, so that they had maybe several hundred or even thousand "stories" from "top" (front) to "bottom" (rear).
But the added complication of some kind of elevators to deal with that - or I suppose they could have used vertical "bounce tubes" but the system of getting on/off would have been more difficult - might have been too offputting in portraying a situation where the ship has supposedly been adrift for hundreds of years with no regular maintenance crews etc. (If the show had gone on longer, they probably should have found at least one dome and maybe some kind of section of the main ship body where that resulted in catastrophic failure.)
And at least so far, people - i.e., the viewers - might have an instinctive need to view a "ship" as having a "flat" orientation like we're given.
With two layers of domes shown, the main ship body probably still was at least a couple miles or so tall. But that wouldn't necessarily all be divided into floors or stories of 12 feet in height or whatever. Most of that volume might have been taken up with cavernous areas for storage, fuel, power generation, propulsion, etc.
The original main bridge was apparently at the very top surface of the main body, and perhaps all of the regularly occupied decks were immediately below that. Maybe even a hundred or more. But still leaving the vast majority of total volume as largely open spaces for equipment, with access corridors, catwalks, etc.
"Bounce tubes" connecting the lower layer of domes could have led to vertical shafts immediately inside the main ship body, going up to the occupied areas near the top. Since the domes were isolated specifically to preserve characteristics of each culture they contained, it's not like a lot of traffic would need to be passing back and forth on a regular basis.
And especially considering how quickly they got to the bridge, Cypress Corners was apparently one of the upper-level domes.
Anyway they're domes, not spheres.
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