The ship may be in ‘observation mode’, with the forward thruster turned off. The rotary thrust produces centripetal force toward the outside, so that the way the occupants’ heads are positioned they wouldn’t have the blood pulled away from their brains, and they can look through separate observation windows.
It never fails to amaze me how confident some people are of their ability to see into other people’s souls, and how what they see in those souls is always the worst possibility of all those that could be thought of as explaining some bit of behavior. In the present instance, for example, they would never think of the possibility that Bets has terribly low self-esteem, and is trying futilely to substitute the attention and approval of her Snapchat subscribers for an authentic sense of her own value as a person.
More generally, if it wasn’t unpleasant it didn’t do you any good. Bactine was developed originally as a painless antiseptic, but no one would buy it until they added some alcohol to make it sting.
…a very long time later, in my case.