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Anyone else find it strange that Earth was the only spacefaring planet in Babylon 5 that had to use centrifuges and rotating spacecraft to generate artificial gravity? You'd think that during the war with Minbar, when Earth was buying weapons and technology from the Narn, they'd have also bought artificial gravity field technology as well. During the cold war, stealth technology, computer technology, and every other type of technology was in high demand. You couldn't have one nation develop something without another trying to steal it, because if you fell behind technologically, you lost. I don't think Earth would've stuck with rotating spacecraft section while every other race had gravity fields on their ships. I know they were trying to go for realism, a la 2001: A Space Odyssey, but when you have all these other alien races who don't need that old tech, it just doesn't make sense.
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