Talk:Eligius IV/@comment-86.30.191.122-20190620223453/@comment-2A00:23C7:6281:2500:ADBE:128B:36D7:3AFA-20190729002404

They aren't even in one of the spinning sections are they, from the looks of the flyover in 6x01? The ship seems to have two smaller rotating rings inbetween the larger non-rotating hull sections (I'm sure Raven has referred to them as 'hab rings' before), and it looks like the bridge area that the group is standing in is part of one of these non-rotating sections.

The 100 is actually pretty good with its science & tech imo but there are a few things they get wrong. Like the Ring that is the only part of the Ark left orbiting earth, when it's occupied by Bellamy and co after Praimfaya, they have gravity yet the Ring is no longer spinning. Although the show did move past the Ring quickly and got the group back down to the ground, so at least they didn't have to keep that incorrect science up for too long. To be fair, even The Expanse takes some creative liberties with sound in space. The 100 still looks absolutely awesome and has a lot of cool plotlines inspired by science/tech ideas.

Thinking back to the Elgius IV ship, considering it was meant to be a mining vessel it would actually make sense to have most of the ship space non-rotating for stoarge of the stuff they are mining, and all their equipment. Then the rotating sections can just be used as habitat areas for the crew. The habitat rings would be used when the ship is not accelerating any more and travelling at a constant velocity as occupants would be pushed to the outside of the rotating ring as you mention, but the main engines are longitudinal which would intefere with the 'spin gravity' by pushing people into what would be the walls of the rotating rings if they were occupied whilst the ship was accelerating. Curious that they never showed tech like magnetic boots (seen in The Expanse and Dark Matter) which would be really useful for moving between rotating & non-rotating sections of spaceships and stations like the Ark.

It would be interesting if the cryo/stasis pods didn't need to be stored in the rotating areas if the cryo tech prevented any of the damaging effects caused to the human body when being in a low g environment. Even without these detrimental effects of zero g, having the body lying in one position for potentially over a hundred years would result in muscles wasting away so the tech must protect against this somehow. And as mentioned above, with the main engines providing thrust along the length of the ship, it would make sense to have the cryo pods not stored in the rotating rings where the occupants would be pushed both down and to the side of the cryo pod, but in the non rotating sections where the occupants would just be pushed downwards as if the pod was located on Earth (asssuming the non-rotating sections were setup in a tower arrangement like Expanse ships, although going back again to that opening shot from 6x01 it looks like the window of the bridge would actually be the ceiling and the floor would be one of the walls with the engine thrust being longitudinal). The cryo tech seems to keep people alive without them needing many resources - they apparently still need some oxygen though as it's mentioned venting the cryo area will kill the occupants.

If the space travel tech in the 100 allowed for 1g thrust engines like The Expanse rotating ships wouldn't be needed (or possibly even cryo as relativity would make long distance trips, even light years away take only a few years not decades) so I think it would be safe to say that constant 1g travel is not a capability, clearly their society was still working on making more effecient engines for space travel as the Elgius IV ship was intended to mine this 'hydrolidium' that's meant to be a more effecient fuel but even with the Elgius IV ship's engines using it cryo is needed for the long (24 year according to this wiki) trip. It's interesting to think about the setup of space life and travel in this show and I do think they get a lot more right than many other shows.