ATTN GEORGE: Docking question

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From: "John Mulcahy" <jpmulc at westol.com>
Date: 5 Apr 1997 17:10:22 -0500
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Hi George.

This has always puzzled me from the first time that I saw it:

When a ship docks, it moves into the rotating docking section of the 
station. Once it is in the station, the station is rotating, but the 
ship is not. How does the ship get where it has to go if B5 is moving 
in a circular fashion? Does the ship have side thrusters that enables 
it to move in tandem with the station? Sounds pretty tricky to me.

I guess I'm just curious as to how the ship once in the station moves 
at precisely the rotational speed of the station.


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From: denebeim at deepthot.cary.nc.us (Jay Denebeim)
Date: 5 Apr 1997 17:24:39 -0500
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In article <199704052200.RAA02893 at oak.westol.com>,
John Mulcahy <jpmulc at westol.com> wrote:

> I guess I'm just curious as to how the ship once in the station
> moves at precisely the rotational speed of the station.

Go rent a copy of 2001.  The docking sequence in it explains it better
than anyone could with words.  Actually, the whole movie is full of
examples of how all this stuff works visually explaining the details
so just about anyone can get an intuitive feel for these things.

(there's so much of it, in fact, that there's not much room left for
plot, still a wonderful movie though, well... other than the last 20
minutes which I still don't have the foggiest idea what it was
supposed to mean)

Jay
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From: George Johnsen <ndeiprod at earthlink.net>
Date: 6 Apr 1997 17:35:39 -0400
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Docking Procedures are under the control of C and C as soon as they lock
on to their docking beacon.  Whenever a pilot tries an overide, you get
the potential for an accident, like we saw with G'kar's G'Quan Eth
plantin "By Any Means Necessary".

The station's synchronizers lock into the ship's local computers and
that's all that's needed.

George J
CoProducer, B5



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