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>Design inertia likely would take time to overcome
apples & oranges
a breakthrough like true artificial gravity would instantly lead to completely revised and streamlined designs
we're not in the fucking age of sails anymore,
especially with AI already on the immediate horizon for us,
let alone for the B5 future

a mega project like B6 would of course profit from the state of the art,
even if just for budgetary reasons