# Another bad science fiction trope

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**Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bad-science-fiction-trope/931532/27 "2021-01-26T20:26:00Z")

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> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> 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?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physics-people-answers/778496/21):
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> 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.

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