There have always been 'poetic' license taken by Hollywood when it comes to space.

Now that said, how many recent movies have you watched in which you said, "WRONG!"

For example, in the movie "Mission to Mars," after the disaster that destroys the Mars Recovery ship, the crew abandons the ship and go after the resupply module in orbit.

Now, I give the writers a break, that could be done, granted it is a one in a million chance, but it is possible.

However, when Woody over shot the capsule, and declared he was irretrievable, that is where I had a bit of a problem.

If Woody's wife would have jetted out so that the line would reach, she would still have enough fuel to get the two of them part of the way back to the capsule, at least close enough to use the tether gun to fire and let someone on the capsule pull the two of them in.

Okay, so Woody wouldn't have died, however, there would still be enough drama in the movie.

Then there is the whole seeding issue. The Martians seed earth, set up a mechanism so that any humans getting to Mars would have a way to find out that fact, leave a ship so ONE person could fly off and meet the parent race.

That is a heck of a lot of trouble to allow one human to take a ship, without leaving something behind for the rest of the human race to learn the technology.

I know that there has to be people involved in SETI@home who have watched science fiction and have thought something similar.

I wont even go into the problems with 'Deep Impact' or 'Armageddon.' Although I am pretty sure that the commander in 'Red Planet,' would have been pretty much toasted by the radiation burst that hit them just before making the mars landing, dont you?

. . . actually "Alien" - the Original was one of the first to depict the 'silence' of space - saw iT @ 3 am in the morn' in the Cineramadome (Los Angeles, CA.)

and iT FELT like the 'real thing' (Space)


safe that chicken that popped out of that astronauts stomach . . .

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I know that the Sandra Bullock flick "The Net" isn't exactly space (or really Science Fiction) but why didn't everyone laugh when the IP addresses were things like "87.43.345.68"?

Okay, maybe I am too much of a nerd.

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. . . actually "Alien" - the Original was one of the first to depict the 'silence' of space - saw iT @ 3 am in the morn' in the Cineramadome (Los Angeles, CA.)

and iT FELT like the 'real thing' (Space)


safe that chicken that popped out of that astronauts stomach . . .

In space no one can hear you scream.

How true! Scary movie.

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I forgot about explosions in space.

I still cant get my head around how you can have a shock wave in a near vacuum. Again refer to Mission to Mars, the frozen fuel was floating a distance away from the engines when it blew.

Besides, NASA and every other country that has sent anything into space solved the meteorite shielding problem years ago. Otherwise, we would be hearing about decompression problems at the ISS daily.

I still cant get my head around how you can have a shock wave in a near vacuum. Again refer to Mission to Mars, the frozen fuel was floating a distance away from the engines when it blew.

Yeah, we've seen that time & time again when in Star Trek, Capt. Kirk is beating butt to get away from the exploding ship. He always does, but most of the time there's alot of damage to the ship. Then Scotty has to fly into action.

Sometimes even to the people who they always have plenty of. LOL! How about that? For an 11 year mission, has anyone ever counted the casualties?

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I still cant get my head around how you can have a shock wave in a near vacuum. Again refer to Mission to Mars, the frozen fuel was floating a distance away from the engines when it blew.

Yeah, we've seen that time & time again when in Star Trek, Capt. Kirk is beating butt to get away from the exploding ship. He always does, but most of the time there's alot of damage to the ship. Then Scotty has to fly into action.

Sometimes even to the people who they always have plenty of. LOL! How about that? For an 11 year mission, has anyone ever counted the casualties?

I thought it was a 5 year mission

I still cant get my head around how you can have a shock wave in a near vacuum. Again refer to Mission to Mars, the frozen fuel was floating a distance away from the engines when it blew.

Yeah, we've seen that time & time again when in Star Trek, Capt. Kirk is beating butt to get away from the exploding ship. He always does, but most of the time there's alot of damage to the ship. Then Scotty has to fly into action.

Sometimes even to the people who they always have plenty of. LOL! How about that? For an 11 year mission, has anyone ever counted the casualties?

Every time when some gets Killed on the show It is always is A crew member with A red shirt!

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I still cant get my head around how you can have a shock wave in a near vacuum. Again refer to Mission to Mars, the frozen fuel was floating a distance away from the engines when it blew.

Yeah, we've seen that time & time again when in Star Trek, Capt. Kirk is beating butt to get away from the exploding ship. He always does, but most of the time there's alot of damage to the ship. Then Scotty has to fly into action.

Sometimes even to the people who they always have plenty of. LOL! How about that? For an 11 year mission, has anyone ever counted the casualties?

Every time when some gets Killed on the show It is always is A crew member with A red shirt!

And it is always someone in the start that you have never seen before.

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I still cant get my head around how you can have a shock wave in a near vacuum. Again refer to Mission to Mars, the frozen fuel was floating a distance away from the engines when it blew.

Yeah, we've seen that time & time again when in Star Trek, Capt. Kirk is beating butt to get away from the exploding ship. He always does, but most of the time there's alot of damage to the ship. Then Scotty has to fly into action.

Sometimes even to the people who they always have plenty of. LOL! How about that? For an 11 year mission, has anyone ever counted the casualties?

Every time when some gets Killed on the show It is always is A crew member with A red shirt!

And it is always someone in the start that you have never seen before.

And to add to that it happens when they visit A Planet.

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I still cant get my head around how you can have a shock wave in a near vacuum. Again refer to Mission to Mars, the frozen fuel was floating a distance away from the engines when it blew.

Yeah, we've seen that time & time again when in Star Trek, Capt. Kirk is beating butt to get away from the exploding ship. He always does, but most of the time there's alot of damage to the ship. Then Scotty has to fly into action.

Sometimes even to the people who they always have plenty of. LOL! How about that? For an 11 year mission, has anyone ever counted the casualties?

I thought it was a 5 year mission

You're right!

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Do we collectively think that there may be a reason for all this????

:-))))))

. . . iT's a Microsoft thingy - SOMEBODY turned back the clocks ;))

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