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two thousand and ten mistakes [message #112818] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:55
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 16:14:31 EST
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  So many people have already posted articles pointing out glaring mistakes
and inconsistancies that I hesitate to add to the list.  But what the heck.

Let's see.  Someone mentioned the burning shield during the 'air braking'
maneuver.  Did you notice that the shield seemed to be four gas-filled bags?
Did you wonder how they stood all of that pressure, ablation, heat, etc.
without being destroyed during the first 2 seconds of atmospheric entry?

When they were told to leave, did you wonder why nobody asked how far away
they had to be in 2 days?  It seems as though minimal fuel expenditure
would have gotten them much further away in two days than ALL of the fuel
in one ship did in ten minutes.

Did you notice that HAL's speech synthesizer seemed to require almost his full 
memory?  Current technology would allow speech synthesis systems which would
work much easier.

And the piggyback ride with the two ships!  The center of mass was obviously
out of the line of thrust.  How could it thrust in a straight line?

And if the new sun REALLY looked that bright from Earth,  I'm sure the 
inhabitants of all coastal cities wouldn't be very pleased with the long
term effects of the 'gift'.

And the guys who were smart enough to make the monoliths and everything were
stupid enough to think that the addition of a sun to our system would ensure
that 'it would never again be dark on Earth'.  Wrong!  During one part of
the year, it would never be dark.  

But, I did kind of like the idea of turning a gas giant into a sun.  I guess
this could be done if the monoliths were compressing the gases into neutronium
or something, effectively shrinking Jupiter until it's gravitational field
was strong enough to compress and heat and ignite the atmosphere.  You'd
have to be able to generate awfully strong force fields to do the trick,
though.

All in all, though, it was entertaining enough to be worth my $2.50.

Jeff Sonntag
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