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Because rye wasn't domesticated like other cereals. It was a weed with enough of a passing resemblance to wheat and barley that there was accidental gradual selection for similarity to crops, which meant larger seeds. At which point rye still mostly stayed as a weed, but a arable (useful/edible) one. And then (after thousands of years of arable weediness) it was intentionally cultivated, likely due to its frost resistance and ability to grow in poorer soil than it its ostensibly higher nutrition domesticated competition, becoming a regionally vital crop. The cultivated strain continued to hybridize with its weedier/"earlier" rye relatives in the wild in a way that was hard to control, leading to a high level of genetic diversity (until relatively recently) compared with other grains.

I'm just saying that at some point, maybe a couple years into the road trip, maybe not until linguists dig in post-nutrient crisis, Rocky, who on day two (2) of their collaboration/friendship, was informed the bipedal leaky space blob's name was "Elegant movement" and duly provided the eridian tranlation with the same sense of amusement that new Merry Men got upon meeting Little John, who called him that name in literally every possible emotional register from sarcastic glee (watching sleep-deprived 'elegant motion' trip on its own feet for the 4th time that day) to great and terrible fear (rocky was not actually thinking about dramatic irony while watching Elegant-Motion be thrown to the wall and lay there unmoving while its body weight crushed its lungs, but he did maybe think about it with dark humor later) to unfathomable love, gratitude, shock, relief, thankfulness (at a certain point a funny nickname ceases to mean anything but that person. Grace is here, Grace came back, Grace is here!), Rocky is going to find out that was not in fact the only translation for his name.

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The centrifuge can't be use while accelerating or decelerating, but as long as it's coasting along through space without any change in velocity, the ship could be going any speed and use the centrifuge.

I think it was 'stupid and complicated' to use the centrifuge while moving in the book because the time they did it was when the beetles were attached to the outside of the ship and being used for thrust (plot point that doesn't happen in the movie). It wouldn't have been any more complicated than normal to run the centrifuge if they still had fuel in the regular engines.

You're right! That is it exactly. I was getting the scenes where they had to reinvent the centrifugal force w/the beetles confused with the way it actually works. The trip was made to be mostly acceleration and then the flip and brake w like very little coasting time, right? So altering it would change how long/how much fuel they used, which could be... bad.

Would it be possible to build in 'centrifuge lab time' into their trip without too much of a travel time increase or fuel draw? Through fanfic anything is possible of course but it doesn't hurt to have an actual calculated answer. the only issue is that I am genuinely terrible at math. I'm worse at physics and applied mathematics so this is all just a little out of my grasp but I'll give it my best crack once i'm off work lol

also this calculator is SO helpful! I really appreciate this :D

Stratt was known for using only tested and proven products on the hail mary when able to. And while the longterm coma robot bullshit system was new, and an exception, I don't think NG tube feeding food was something Dr. Lamai was rebuilding from scratch.

obligatory grace almost kills rocky scene. they make me ill

NO he doesn’t look anything like rgos but he does have kind eyes. is that not enough?

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