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Post by daxter717 on Aug 11, 2007 9:37:34 GMT -5
How exactly would a ship the size of either Icarus be launched? It's been bugging me ever since I saw the movie...
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Post by nimue on Aug 11, 2007 11:54:03 GMT -5
Maybe the same way rockets do? Lol. Not sure because the movie was set in the future and they probably know stuff then in which we still have no clue about now. They probably figured something out (obviously).  |
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Post by IIC on Aug 11, 2007 14:43:43 GMT -5
Most likely they built it in space around Earth's orbit. And by most likely I mean 100%. There's no way something of that size can leave Earth's gravity without an enormous amount of energy.
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Post by brittany on Aug 11, 2007 15:24:24 GMT -5
Most likely they built it in space around Earth's orbit. And by most likely I mean 100%. There's no way something of that size can leave Earth's gravity without an enormous amount of energy. I was just gonna say that. That was how the international space station was built, right? |
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Post by spc on Aug 11, 2007 17:22:10 GMT -5
Yeah, both Icarus ships had to be assembled in space.
I think the film confirms this in an off-handed way when Cassie tells Capa as he's suiting up that he has no reason to be nervous since "we did this a thousand times in Earth-orbit training" (or something like that).
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Post by colin on Aug 11, 2007 21:18:50 GMT -5
The Manhattan size mass that was launched up would've been expensive. Like really expensive heh.
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Post by daxter717 on Aug 12, 2007 14:03:37 GMT -5
I was gonna say... cause if u tried to launch something like that it would be about 700,000,000 lbs too topheavy lmao, not to mention there would not be nearly enuff power to force that massive shield thru the atmosphere w/out it breakin up
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Post by colin on Aug 12, 2007 21:17:18 GMT -5
$6,000 USD/lb for space flight, how heavy is Manhattan island?
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Post by chero on Aug 12, 2007 21:35:48 GMT -5
From Wikipedia: "Manhattan Island is 22.7 square miles (58.8 km²) in area, 13.4 miles (21.6 km) long and 2.3 miles (3.7 km) wide, at its widest (near 14th Street).[36] New York County as a whole covers a total area of 33.77 square miles (87.46 km²), of which 22.96 square miles (59.47 km²) are land and 10.81 square miles (28.00 km²) are water." That's all I can find. |
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Post by Starshine on Aug 17, 2007 7:48:01 GMT -5
They needed worldwide space missions to do that. It seems unbelivable for me that sunshine plays in near future. I think we could build such a big spaceship first in more than hundred years.
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Post by cococi on Sept 1, 2007 16:27:17 GMT -5
near future how could that be  sun will die in thousands of years maibe hundred thousand years even then it would be expensive only if they havent found the rocket fuel milk cow  |
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sun will die in thousands of years maibe hundred thousand years even then it would be expensive only if they havent found the rocket fuel milk cow 
