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		vacri on April 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If the Earth were 100 pixels wide Interesting idea - all the scifi I've ever seen has had ships rotating around the axis of travel, but never orthogonal to it.

millerm on April 3, 2013 [–]

The axis wouldn't matter. You wouldn't notice which direction you were going (well I suppose if you noticed the sun, darn).

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