Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site noao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!sharp From: sharp@noao.UUCP (Nigel Sharp) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: 2010 mistakes/non-mistakes Message-ID: <449@aquila.noao.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 17:05:42 EST Article-I.D.: aquila.449 Posted: Sat Dec 15 17:05:42 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 03:54:10 EST Distribution: net Organization: Natl. Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ USA Lines: 26 1) Dust on Discovery not a mistake - anyone heard of static electricity ? 2) Airbraking a perfectly respectable technique: time error - would you really want to watch it for two hours ? BUT - surely they were far too high in the atmosphere ? Jupiter's atmosphere is dense, but with a small scale height. (I haven't done the sums, I admit.) 3) Engine noise in space: sigh. Of course, inside they'd certainly hear something, but where was the camera ? 4) Jupiter simulation very good, but speeded up for effect. 5) `Antiquated' appearance: very Soviet. Do you really think they'll be total American clones in 30 years ? 6) Simulated gravity: you just can't get actors to do it right !! I have never seen anything which approximates the real thing (now available on your own TV, courtesy of the Shuttle), either for `fake' gravity or for weightlessness. Just forget it, and `invent' artifical gravity pads. 7) My favourite gripe: when they changed the monolith's 1x4x9 dimensions for 2001, it was for appearance sake (and, I admit, it does look better much slimmer). BUT they never mentioned the ratios. In 2010 they talk about the 1x4x9 quite often, even while looking at a clearly non-1x4x9 monolith. It makes me mad (strike forehead with heel of hand) ! 8) Wasn't British Helen Mirren's Russian good !!? Of course, the rest were everyone's favourite expatriate Russians (cf Moscow on the Hudson). Does anyone think subtitles would have helped ? Some of the remarks were quite amusing (I couldn't catch them all, they talk too quickly !). -- Nigel Sharp [noao!sharp National Optical Astronomy Observatories]