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  1. J

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    Yeah, I call those "scare the animals moments" (Happens a lot during baseball season). 'Ya didn't think ya maybe shoulda hadda wad of chewing gum handy? Idiot." I'd hate to go camping with these dudes, much less to Mars. BTW, didn't see the static electricity angle coming, but I was...
  2. J

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    SOMEbody's gotta be! Despite the tropes, physicist friends often commented how other scientists considered them dummies, glorified mechanics and chemists.
  3. J

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    I guess they wanted to add a bit of excitement when they drilled through the hull in search of water, but come on. First, I believe that all space vehicles have patches to slap over a hole, with the outrush of air providing sufficient suction to plug it. All they had to do to limit the depth...
  4. J

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    Huh. I got if off Wikipedia, which went so far as to give other, discarded, names. I checked cuz I remembered having heard that the IBM thing was bogus.
  5. J

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    OK. That settles it: no extended space flight for me. I pretty much decided that when, in "2001" they showed the page long instructions for the zero-G toilet. BTW, HAL's voice was done by Stephanie Powers in rehearsal, English actor Nigel Davenport on set, and Kubrick first considered Martin...
  6. J

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    Forgot to say that I'd never even heard of space blindness, either.
  7. J

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    While I'm here, a word of praise for the first quality sci-fi space movie: Forbidden Planet. Over 60 yrs ago, and it put the science in sci-fi by having a stasis field for deceleration (eerily similar to Star Trek's transporter) so that the crew didn't end up as pink paste on the bulkheads...
  8. J

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    Yeah, I've given up nit-picking about the "sound" of explosions in space, etc. But in that case I can see how it adds to the excitement of the action, and so serves an entertainment purpose. But I was complaining about the apparent lack of scientific intelligence of highly competent folks, and...
  9. J

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    Yeah, I noted that they waffled on that. Not as bad as Ad Astra, where within mere minutes of having radioed to Saturn (?), he asks if he's had a response yet. It'd take minimum over an hour each way. What gets me is that there are cinematic and story-driven ways to accurately portray such...
  10. J

    Netflix Away (Netflix)

    Enjoying "Away", especially the grounding of the show in science. But, in this episode they kind of insult the viewer's intelligence. Within 20 seconds of the revelation that the supply ship will not reach them in time, this science schlub immediately envisioned a slingshot maneuver to close...
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