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From: sharp@noao.UUCP (Nigel Sharp)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: 2010 mistakes/non-mistakes
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Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 17:05:42 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 15 17:05:42 1984
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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]