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* [[Space Amish]]: The people of Cypress Corners. Literally. They are a Mennonite or pseudo-Mennonite culture.
* [[Space Is an Ocean]]: Implied by the design of the ARK model. There's no reason why the domes all needed to be only on one plane, "flat" relative to the rest of the ship; it would have been more practical (and realistic!) to have them radiating out from the central hull in all directions. (Like, for instance, the ''Valley Forge'' from ''[[Silent Running]]''.) The final design suggests that the modelmakers were unconsciously assuming gravity would always be "down", and that the domes all need to be pointing upward for a "sun" overhead -- and that the entire ARK would be floating on the surface of "space" like a raft.
* [[Time Dilation]]: Completely and utterly misunderstood by the writer of the episode "The Pisces". See ''No Immortal Inertia'', above.
* [[Tube Travel]]: "Bounce tubes" connected the different sections of the ''ARK'' -- enter one and you are immediately propelled all the way to the far end, as Devon discovers in the first episode.
* [[Universe Bible]]: Written at least in part by SF author [[Ben Bova]], who briefly served as technical adviser to the series, and who later wrote a comic novel about the entire disaster. Available [http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Misc_Bibles/The_Starlost_Bible.pdf here] (in mid-2022).
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