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ercoerco Posts: 20,256
edited 2013-05-12 02:06 in General Discussion
Movie teaser for "Gravity". Miss Congeniality is a long way (at least 372 miles) from any bomb-rigged bus, but she's around plenty of high-speed action and explosions nonetheless. First time I'm actually glad that NASA never accepted me into their astronaut candidate mission specialist program.

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/gravity-teaser-trailer-bullock-clooney-lost-space-030906889.html

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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-05-10 12:46
    Well, it's hardly "lost in space", now is it?. They are only 372 miles up and have a pretty good idea of where they are. I mean, like give or take a mile in altitude at least. Hardly off the ground compared to the size of space as far as we can tell.
    That's not to say that I might be brave enough to attempt such folly.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2013-05-10 13:07
    erco wrote: »
    Movie teaser for "Gravity". Miss Congeniality is a long way (at least 372 miles) from any bomb-rigged bus, but she's around plenty of high-speed action and explosions nonetheless. First time I'm actually glad that NASA never accepted me into their astronaut candidate mission specialist program.

    http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/gravity-teaser-trailer-bullock-clooney-lost-space-030906889.html

    Have to watch it after all the original Lost in Space episodes:

    http://www.hulu.com/lost-in-space

    I'm on episode 6 tonight.

    Spooky how Dr. Smith looks like an aged Neil Patrick Harris. :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-05-10 13:16
    Publison,

    Damn it, that link says "not available outside the USA".

    I guess I have to live on my memories, I saw most of it back in the 1960's. "The pain, the pain"
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2013-05-10 13:46
    If the ISS suits are anything like the ones they used on Mir then getting separated from the space station would probably be fatal pretty quickly. The Mir suits used a tether back to the station dispel waste heat. If you got pulled off the station and separated from your tether the suit would start to accumulate heat. Radio Lab has a story about a pair of astronauts that couldn't get back into the module their tethers were attached to. So they had to unhook and climb to another airlock. The astronauts said the accumulated heat from even that modest exertion rapidly endangered their lives. Here's a link to the story:

    http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/oct/08/dark-side-earth/

    Of course drifting off with any velocity will make it hard for anything to recover you because there's few ways for anything to rescue you.
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2013-05-10 14:04
    getting separated from the space station would probably be fatal pretty quickly

    Well, being a Hollywood movie, you can pretty much bet they'll ignore most of the laws of physics and engineering realities.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-05-10 14:28
    The laws of physics, or reality as it otherwise known, are a real downer when it comes to spinning a space travel yarn. The sheer impossibility of the entire project prevents you from getting very far into the story. Sometimes I think Dark Star is the movie that has portrayed the ordeal most accurately.

    Of course this has always been true. See The Bible, Greek mythology and myriad other ledgends and folk tales for examples.
  • hover1hover1 Posts: 1,929
    edited 2013-05-10 15:20
    Heater. wrote: »
    Publison,

    Damn it, that link says "not available outside the USA".

    I guess I have to live on my memories, I saw most of it back in the 1960's. "The pain, the pain"

    Let me set up a web site and transfer the episodes to:

    www.6.3VAC.com

    WAIT! Somebody already has it! (According to Go Daddy)
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2013-05-10 16:44
    Dark Star is the only movie where the dead guy gets to be the only survivor. If you think that's a spoiler you still don't know which dead guy.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-05-10 17:26
    I WAS Will Robinson when I was growing up. Loved that show. I have all 3 seasons on DVD.

    Every LIS fan should see the unaired pilot. No robot, no Dr. Smith. Kinda boring. The first season was more serious and the next two years got campier and more colorful to keep up with the likes of Batman.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2013-05-10 17:49
    Many of us learned annoying alliteration from Lost in Space.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2013-05-11 07:54
    Heater. wrote: »
    Publison,

    Damn it, that link says "not available outside the USA".

    I guess I have to live on my memories, I saw most of it back in the 1960's. "The pain, the pain"

    I bought the set on play.com a year or two ago...

    As for Dark Star, that one really is a must-have.
    together with The Last Starfighter, Space Balls, and of course the complete Red Dwarf...
    (First movie where all ships are CGI, biggest mecha EVER, and yeah, most spoofs... Even Captain Baldie from Star Trek is a fan... )
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-05-11 08:29
    And Star Wreck of course http://www.starwreck.com/

    You can watch earlier Star Wreck movies online http://www.starwreck.com/legacy/movies.php
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2013-05-12 02:06
    Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning...
    Gets the 'must have' for the most offensive use of beer...
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