I Kim Stanley Robinsons Aurora:
During the return trip to Earth, (I assume) after all the passengers are hibernated, the ship increases its spin gravity from 0.8g to 1.1g. Then after the ship blows up, the Humans theorize that it is to make the transition to Earth easier. But earlier the Iris colonists had absolutely no issues with the local stronger gravity. Did I miss the ship ever mentioning (or even implying) a real reason?
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Citatet från romanen verkar erbjuda ett par alternativ, men inget verkligen definitivt . Freya säger att det var att få återvändarna att känna sig lättare. Badim hävdar att det kan bero på att fartygets datorer saknade kalibrering efter omprogrammering under 68-revolten.
They are in 1g, by definition, but the voyagers decide, and the records in the computers they brought down with them confirm, that they were living in something close to 1.1g for most of their voyage home. Why the ship did this, they cannot determine from the records they have.
Freya says to Badim, “It must have done it to make sure we felt light when we got here.”
“Yes, I guess that’s possible. I suppose. But I wonder too if there was some programming done by the people in Year 68, some kind of alteration that left the ship with no frame of reference. We can ask it when it comes around the sun.”
Det verkar inte vara en upplösning varför detta inträffade, förutom kanske den subtila implikationen att det kanske helt enkelt varit ett programmeringstest som aldrig blev omvändt eller att det hade något att göra med "enforced forget" -regimen.
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