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Edited by Mat2596: 2/6/2016 12:14:05 AM
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Have you ever noticed how that station in the Moon's sky is in a geo-stationary orbit? WHERT BERNGIE, DO YOU EVEN SCIENCE.
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  • Someone did a write up about the space station. It would likely have to be at the L4 or L5 Lagrange points. Those points are part of an equilateral triangle with the mass of the Earth, Moon and station. Therefore the station would need to be about as far from the Moon as the Moon is from the Earth. The station would be massive to look that large and probably wouldn't show up in the Moon's sky as it does in the game. It would always be in the Moon's orbit either following the Moon or ahead of it. Of course, there's always the space magic angle. Whatever the Traveler did to the Moon to give it an Earth-like gravity without impacting tidal forces on the Earth might allow for a lunar-stationary orbit closer to the Moon's surface. Gravity observes the same inverse square law as many other sources like light and sound. What if the Traveler can change the way that mass impacts the curvature of space-time on a short scale? If you had the technology, gravity might weaken with distance at a greater rate then natural phenomena. You'd have Earth like gravity closer to the Moon but the tidal force at the surface of the Earth would be normal.

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  • I've seen a few things about it, but I haven't really paid attention myself. Lol.

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