Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / QGSI 2.0; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!qubix!msc From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: 2010 mistakes/non-mistakes Message-ID: <1575@qubix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 14:29:25 EST Article-I.D.: qubix.1575 Posted: Mon Dec 17 14:29:25 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 00:44:01 EST References: <449@aquila.noao.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, San Jose, CA Lines: 23 > 2) Airbraking a perfectly respectable technique: time error - would you > really want to watch it for two hours ? Of course not, but there are many cinematic devices to show the passage of time. In any case it was depicted as much to violent. The deceleration involved in the real thing is much less than depicted. The thrust from Discovery was also shown more like a blast off from earth than a deep space craft leaving planetary orbit. > 3) Engine noise in space: sigh. Of course, inside they'd certainly hear > something, but where was the camera ? This was a constant annoyance to me. > 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. What you see on the shuttle tapes in NOT zero gravity. It is free-fall. There is a considerable difference. But that does not excuse Hyams for his inaccuracies. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, qubix!msc@decwrl.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!qubix!msc