Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!rayssd!m1b From: m1b@rayssd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: 2010 review's review's review Message-ID: <618@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 13:18:26 EST Article-I.D.: rayssd.618 Posted: Wed Dec 19 13:18:26 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 03:41:30 EST Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 27 > >> Much of the science of "2010" is questionable in the face of what we >> knew, know and are learning. A new star appears in the solar system and >> the earth escapes without a tremor. The Leonov embarks without enough >> fuel to either return or slow down. They do "air braking" (without air) >> to slow Leonov as she whips around the planet and into a new orbit. >> How's that for science friction. > > Questionable? To who? Yes a new star does appear and if it popped up out > of nowhere there would be problems - but it didn't, the mass of a currently > exsisting object (one which many scientists believe is a failed star due to > insufficient mass) was increased until it collapses inwards and the pressure > ignites nuclear fusion and bingo! Besides, it stands to reason that the ones > creating the new star would have checked things out to insure there would be > no catalysmic consequences. > -- > Kevin Thompson {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin > I thought the monoliths merely increased the *density* of Jupiter, not the mass. The observation from the Leonov that Jupiter is shrinking would support either idea, though. Joe Barone, {allegra, decvax!brunix, ccieng5}!rayssd!m1b Raytheon Co, Submarine Signal Div., Portsmouth, RI "What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?!!" :-)