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Post by brittany on Aug 5, 2007 15:50:13 GMT -5
Yea pink you rock. There is something unbelievably cool about a chick that is into stuff like this. Why can't you be in Canada?  lol, and I don't know what an LY is, but I'm sure you deserve one from me as well! LY = Lightyear Members can give other members lightyears which are like karma points.  |
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Post by colin on Aug 5, 2007 20:26:50 GMT -5
Thank you brittany, although it won't let me give you a LY!  |
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Post by brittany on Aug 6, 2007 8:19:33 GMT -5
Thank you brittany, although it won't let me give you a LY! If you have already given someone a LY, then you must wait a while before you can give more. It might take up to 30 minutes, but I'm not sure. There should be a thread about it in the first couple of boards... ;D |
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Post by Starshine on Aug 14, 2007 13:17:34 GMT -5
The physical mistakes in the movie like "they havent zero-g in the spaceship" and "thre arent any sounds in space" doesnt matter - it is a movie but although a very realistic one.
What me really interest is how exactly the sun could die early caused by "Q-Balls" and what this things are.
I thought they have on the Icarus spaceshp only a normal nulear payload with 1000 tons of uran, but i read it is a "dark-matter-bomb". However, i I want to know how it works!
If you know it, plz explain it in a easy language thx.
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Post by bunkergate7 on Aug 14, 2007 13:54:16 GMT -5
The physical mistakes in the movie like "they havent zero-g in the spaceship" and "thre arent any sounds in space" doesnt matter - it is a movie but although a very realistic one. Those two issues bother me in any movie that is Hard Sci-Fi, and I consider Sunshine to be "Hard Sci-Fi". "Hollywood" or not -- Kubrick pulled BOTH off in 2001 and that was YEARS ago. Why every other sci-fi movie in existence has to have "sound in space" and "unexplained microgravity without a rotating torus, ship in rotation (either "Tumbling Pigeon" or O'Neill cylinder models), or straight-line ONLY thrust gravity" is beyond me! Probably because of Star Wars... However, Sunshine had such a strong plot, great characters, and sound physics in other ways that I can overlook the issues you pointed out. My favorite SF film is Alien and in it both of those "laws of space" are broken...so, again, I can overlook things of that nature when the plot is great. As to dark matter, I think the jury's still pretty much out as to what it IS to begin with. But I'm not a scientist so I don't know. Check out the Wikipedia article below for some rudimentary information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter |
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Post by Starshine on Aug 16, 2007 8:53:38 GMT -5
Thanks.
I think movies should not be too realistc, its in the most cases bad for them. Imagine a space combat without any sounds... Action must be combined with sound everytime.
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Post by bunkergate7 on Aug 16, 2007 9:44:58 GMT -5
Thanks. I think movies should not be too realistc, its in the most cases bad for them. Imagine a space combat without any sounds... Action must be combined with sound everytime. I am on the other end of the spectrum here. I think that the more realistic a movie is (or at least tries to be), the more I admire it. Case in point: There is no sound in space in Kubrick's 2001. However, the director got around 20-30 minute periods of silence with soundtrack cues and some clever "perspective" noise. For example, when Frank Poole went EVA and HAL "offed" him with the pod, you could hear Frank's breathing patterns from inside the suit. For me, this heightened the tension a great deal more than if Kubrick had decided to have engine noise and crap clanging around in the vaccuum of space. The severity of what was happening became intensely personal and frighteningly claustrophobic. As for space battles, Hollywood's version of combat in space is so different from what it really might be like that it isn't worth commenting on. Let's just say that space combat wouldn't even be close to aerial dogfights or WWII naval battles -- what most SF films and TV shows seem to use as models for combat in space. The best place on the net that I have found to read about how to portray "war in space" in SF is here: www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3t.htmlMy attitude with science fiction is that there should be some "science" added into the "fiction". But I'll always make exceptions if the plot/story/characters are good. Just my two cents... |
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Post by cococi on Sept 1, 2007 16:36:03 GMT -5
chill guys it's a movie havent u noticed already that movies arent that realistic ... imagine us in 2-3 bilion years from now we would be balld freaky alliens whit super technologies we wouldnt even need the sun  if we would want to repair it we would send stronger smarter robots cheap to manufacture or... even go to another solar system why not they say it's theoretical possibly just take a stick make a hole in space and time or... fold the univers and just leap from here to there  simple |
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lol, and I don't know what an LY is, but I'm sure you deserve one from me as well!
if we would want to repair it we would send stronger smarter robots cheap to manufacture or... even go to another solar system why not they say it's theoretical possibly just take a stick make a hole in space and time or... fold the univers and just leap from here to there 
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