Another bad science fiction trope

[Darren_Garrison]

@Stranger_On_A_Train

This isn’t the only deviation from physical reality

Not the least being the spin-up of Ceres. (And I just realized that now that we are on Discourse spoiler tags are no longer useful for compacting long posts.)

physics people, answers?

Reposting a relevant post I made on the The Expanse thread over in Cafe Society (which is itself a reworking of a post I made to a different forum more than a year ago.) Spoilered for length.