Post by highforthis on Feb 23, 2014 12:49:50 GMT -5
1. If they could detach the crew and living section from Icarus 2 to attach to Icarus 1, why couldn't they have detached in the first act of the film (when they were fixing the heat shield)? They could've avoided burning off their comms array, which set in motion all the events that followed.
2. And when the solar "wind" was approaching Kaneda, it blew away the two inflatable lamps shortly before, sending them past the back of the shield.... couldn't Kaneda have maneuvered his suit to around the same height as where the lamps where, and "rode" the wind to the back of the shield (assuming the suit would have lasted a bit longer than near the approaching wall of fire on the surface of the shield)...
3. And why did Cassie instruct the ship to "slow speed" to allow the guys to fix the shield? In terms of safety, what's the difference between hurtling through space at 50,000mph and 30,000mph? They don't need fuel to maintain speed, but will need a whole lot of it to decelerate a ship with the mass of Manhattan island...
4. How much time did Pinbacker have to kill everyone after he boarded Icarus 2? Earth is 91 million miles from the sun. Mercury is at minimum 28.5 million miles from the sun. Capa's last message home "see you in 2 years", with 1/3 the distance to go before the return trip, means that it'll take 6 more months from the start of the movie to get to the payload delivery point. If they had to change their trajectory by "1.1 degrees" (according to trey) when slingshotting around Mercury to reach Icarus 1, and if they were going to pass by Icarus 1 within only "10-15 thousand miles" (Kaneda said) if they hadn't, it means Icarus I is no more than 750,000 miles closer to the sun than Mercury. Which meant Pinbacker boarded Icarus 2 at ~27.75 million miles from the sun, with at least a quarter of the journey left to reach the payload delivery point... so the majority of the 6-month duration of the plot was supposed to occur in the final act of the movie.... unless the payload delivery point was orders of magnitude further from the sun than the movie depicted.
