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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: 2010 mistakes/non-mistakes
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Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 14:29:25 EST
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> 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.
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