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Never mind that in many circumstances, objects move faster in zero gravity since, obviously, there's no gravity to slow them down. If you kick off from a wall, you'll travel as fast your legs propel you. This trope presumably originates from footage of astronauts deliberately moving very slowly, because they know it's easy to let momentum get the better of you and hurt yourself bashing into something. It may also be a weird side-effect of [[Space Friction]], or of writers' only personal experience of "weightlessness" being a dip in the swimming pool. |
Never mind that in many circumstances, objects move faster in zero gravity since, obviously, there's no gravity to slow them down. If you kick off from a wall, you'll travel as fast your legs propel you. This trope presumably originates from footage of astronauts deliberately moving very slowly, because they know it's easy to let momentum get the better of you and hurt yourself bashing into something. It may also be a weird side-effect of [[Space Friction]], or of writers' only personal experience of "weightlessness" being a dip in the swimming pool. |
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* This trope gets its origins in popular media from ''<nowiki>~2001: A Space Odyssey~</nowiki>''. Sure, everything was beautiful, but everything also moved at a ''crawl.'' |
* This trope gets its origins in popular media from ''<nowiki>~2001: A Space Odyssey~</nowiki>''. Sure, everything was beautiful, but everything also moved at a ''crawl.'' |
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