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Look, gravity on ships, okay, I'll put up with that.  But gravity on ships for
people and not for pencils?  It seems to me that they took the neat pencil
floating stuff from the shuttle to the moon and just had to do it too and
combined it with the gravity on Discovery.  Well, after all, the weight of a
pencil ~= 0 compared to the weight of a human.  Bye, bye, Newton.  (Of course,
what direct experience did he have with pencils in outer space, anyway.) 

I've got something to get off my chest: I liked 2001.  Lots.  I like Kubrick
films (yes, especially "Barry Lyndon").  I didn't like 2010 because I didn't
find it a particularly mature film, and it had what I consider to be some major
flaws in physics, characterization, continuity, and plot.

Frankly, I've always thought god is on Io, instead.

L S Chabot
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Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 09:38:56 EST
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Hey, *think* a little, folks!  The pencil trick was done on
the bridge of the Leonov, *not* on the Discovery.  The bridge
is in the zero-gee section of the ship (I hope you noticed
the rotating part of the Leonov?  Good...that's where the
medical bay, the wardroom, etc. were located.  The bridge
and the pod bay were in the non-rotating areas).  As to how
people can walk around in zero-gee, remember that they did it
in 2001 (the pod bay, the accessways, etc.) -- and if you looked
a bit closer, you'd notice that everyone on the Leonov wore what
looked like strap-on booties over their shoes, probably used
to provide attraction to the deck plates in the zero-gee areas.
*Sheesh!*

It's not that I *loved* 2010 (I also felt it lacked in plot
and characterization) -- but I'm so tired of people attacking
the continuity without paying attention.

(I'm normally not this antagonistic, really.  Blame it on my
sinuses...)

B.K.Cobb
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"My God, it's full of critics!"