Aery sighs too. "Okay, here: Define friction. Friction is the rubbing together of atoms. There's still atoms of air bouncing around, so thus there's still friction. Gravity has no bearing on friction whatsoever. Also..." She used her circuit-memory to bring up several documents on flight in space and brought them up on her holo-tablet. [url=http://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/birds-in-space.htm]Articles ike this one[/url] and passed it to Charlie to let him scroll through it.
Kiki floats over to the control panel, chasing the wiring around inside. She can't believe what she finds on the gravity unit. It is horribly corroded, rusted entirely through in spots.
She follows the wires out and pokes her head back up out of the opening in the circuit board. "The gravity drive is pretty much useless. It's rusted through and corroded in so many spots that it's a wonder it ever worked at all."