How the hell do these ships manage to fly on Earth?

It's called the Minovsky Craft System. All capital ships have one.

Magnets

>>15769319
They're newtypes

>>15769328
How does that work?

>>15769344
space autism radioactive particles

space magic

>>15769344
They push against the bottom of the ship, pushing it upwards.

>>15769319
It just works!
Minovsky space magic, ain't got to explain more. But then it's kinda like an anti-gravity cushion, you can't use it to simulate gravity in space, but it works well enough to control the ship, kinda like an hovercraft but it flies.

Its science fiction aka your rules of physics dont apply here heathen

>>15769599
>Its science fiction aka your rules of physics dont apply here heathen

So you're saying Gundam is just another super robot show ?

>>15769639
Yes

>>15769639
You must be pretty retarded to think there's a difference. I'm guessing you're one of those idiots that pretend sci-fi and fantasy are separate genres?

>>15769344
Minovsky particles come in positive and negative charges. Mix them together and they spontaneously form into a lattice like ionic bonds do, making the cloud of Minovsky particles have much more cohesion and pressure than if they behaved like an ideal gas. This produces enough pressure that the ship can ride on a cushion of them like a hovercraft. Realistically, they shouldn't be able to go up very high, since the particle lattice would need to get larger with the square of your distance from the ground, consuming exponentially higher amounts of energy as you ascended. But the series mostly ignores that little bit and lets Minovsky Craft-equipped ships go all the way up into orbit.

>>15769319
plot engines

>>15769319
Reality breaking class magic or as fiction loves to call it "sufficiently advanced technology that looks like magic" but really is just magic.

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>>15769715
I don't see swords, dragons and/or magic in Gundam, checkmate.

>>15769319
Minovsky Magic.
How do giant robots manage to stand upright in defiance of God and gravity? If it's fun, science be damned.

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>>15774835
>swords

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>>15774835
>dragons

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>>15774835
>magic

>>15774838
Seconding this.

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>>15775079
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>>15775085
And with their powers combined.

>>15774835
Sci-fi and fantasy are basically the same, you just replace swords with lasers, monsters with aliens and magic with tech/science.

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>>15769319

>>15769715

There's a reason George Lucas and a lot of people around the mid 20th century used the phrases "science fantasy" or "space fantasy" rather than "sci-fi", though those phrases have gone out of vogue over the years. Space opera is still used quite often to describe a lot of the fiction you're probably thinking of though.

That said, science fiction is an actual genre and there are some differences between stories that fall within that bracket and fantasy of any stripe, mostly that genuine science fiction tends to start from a scientific theory or idea, building up the plot and characters to examine that conceit and how it would affect society rather than just making up whatever sounds good to support the plot and characters. The two are almost polar opposites in that way I suppose.

Asimov's robot stories are both a good example and probably the most famous example of sci-fi instead of fantasy, since he took the idea of robots that had been kicking around for a while, set some boundaries and then examined in a myriad of ways how the existence of robots would effect society and what it might mean for people. Corey Doctorow is a more recent author who tends to write science fiction, though he tends to concentrate on more near science fact than Asimov did with stories about 3D printing, copy right and so on. Not that their vision very often pans out to reality, and a lot of older stories seem more fantastic now because the scientific premises in them have been debunked, but they were scientific in their day. Jules Verne is a good example of that.

>>15774835
>no magic
You must have not watched Unicorn.

>>15769724
>But the series mostly ignores that little bit and lets Minovsky Craft-equipped ships go all the way up into orbit.
You only ever see them accelerate up to space with their big main rocket engines, and it makes sense that they would be designed with fuel tanks large enough to supply just enough delta-v to get in to low earth orbit from the ground. White base couldn't return to orbit with what they had, and they never talked about being under any particular threat of running out of fuel, I think it's just that the only way it could go to orbit is with a completely full tank.

>>15775366
pretty sure autistic space magic was around since the very beginning.

>>15769319
The Argama was never on earth

>>15769724
It's always mildly bothered me that there's never any indication of any pressure on things below the ships. You don't need to crush the forests or anything, but any effect at all would've been a nice detail to include.

>>15776552
Someone didn't watch ZZ.