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Space Is Slow Motion

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Space Is Slow Motion	label	Space Is Slow Motion
Space Is Slow Motion	page	SpaceIsSlowMotion
Space Is Slow Motion	comment	Stuff happening in zero gravity requires a whole new outlook on the laws of physics as we're aware of them, but most writers ignore that and just make things move slower and floatier. 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. Examples
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_27b0262b	comment	Quite definitely disproved in MythBusters: flailing around and then slowing down the clip looks a lot different than actual zero-gravity movement.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_39f6a46c	comment	A bizarre version is shown in Diamonds Are Forever when men in spacesuits are training to use a Moon Rover on a stage set outside Las Vegas. They move slowly according to this trope, which might be justified if they were making a publicity film, but when James Bond comes racing past pursued by guards, the astronauts slowly try to block his path, while Bond nimbly dodges their inept efforts.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_54a7dc07	comment	Played so straight in Space: 1999 that they filmed moonwalking scenes in slow motion.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_61c6b600	comment	Played straight during the spacewalk sequence in Star Trek: First Contact.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_6bbde1c8	comment	In the "Horizon Lunar Colony" map in Overwatch, there's an airlock you can use to leave the colony and explore the surface. Doing so doesn't cause any actual damage, but it does gradually slow your movement speed to a crawl.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_6eb4ca5c	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Space Is Slow Motion / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Jackie Chan Adventures: Jackie and Hak Foo end up fighting in space during the Moon Demon episode, and Hak Foo is forced to rethink his attack names. "Tiger prowls... through pudding? Turtle... fist! Sloth... kick!"
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash (2014): Apparently, space is such slow motion that the Reverse-Flash is powerless in zero-gravity. They don't provide the plausible explanation of careful movement; they act like he's truly powerless.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_8ac4e993	comment	Averted by Gundam. Many of the series characters are born and raised in Space Colonies and are very comfortable in zero-gravity, and will jump and bounce off of walls/ceilings/floors with practiced ease to move around — and, of course, the zero-g space battles are generally fought at very high speeds. The only time slow-motion is going on is during docking operations, when precision is of the utmost concern.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_9232889	comment	Moon Zero Two: This is the effect of turning off the moonbase's artificial gravity, leading to a rather underwhelming Bar Brawl for a Space Western.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_97160d12	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Space Is Slow Motion / int_97160d12	comment	Averted in Planetes when the crew barely manage to move a piece of debris out of the way of an oncoming spacecraft in time — said spacecraft flashes by very fast.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_b9a0d78d	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Space Is Slow Motion / int_b9a0d78d	comment	Alien averts this trope when Kane's body gets a Burial in Space. Rather than a stately drift into space, the body is shot rapidly from the airlock.
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Space Is Slow Motion / int_e7e37776	comment	In the Firefly pilot episode "Serenity", there is a scene in which Serenity is passing a Reaver ship in open space. They are both in transit between planets or moons, moving in opposite directions, but pass each other at roughly jogging speed. At that rate, it would take them (hold on, let's do the math, let's see, nuthin', and nuthin', carry the nuthin') roughly forever to get there.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Space Is Slow Motion	processingCategory2	Speculative Fiction Tropes
Space Is Slow Motion	processingCategory2	Tropes in Space
Space Is Slow Motion	processingCategory2	Velocity Index
Diamonds Are Forever / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Moon Zero Two / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Moonraker / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
2001: A Space Odyssey / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Alex Rider / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
Dead Space 2 (Video Game) / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
The Fedora Chronicles (Web Animation) / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion
The Garfield Show / int_4f5fcec2	type	Space Is Slow Motion

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