In Dragonball Z, I rarely see a mechanical device, mostly just electronic. And the first fight between Goku and Vegitta should have ended the stability of Earth orbit (and hence everyone Goku trying to save.) So just change Newton's Law of motion assumptions, theorically is still possible to have life. What ya think?
In the series, "Captain Harlock," someone point out that the Japanese's animator have flag flying in space. This is plausible since it is time that affected motion so "rocket-science" is not really rocket-science. Also one must consider language, look, culture, symbol,... It just a message and something to relate to but not sure if it look exactly the way it look. Japanese, Korean, some Chinese (specially ancient Chinese 'yeeeeah!!!!'),... tend to keep theirs words, so the preceptions should be as close as it get.
