"somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote in message news:4ada66c5@news.povray.org...
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
> news:4ada43b1@news.povray.org...
>
> >   It's based on theoretical science, not handwaving:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ball
>
> In that case, I'm surprised you exclude FTL travel, which is typically
based
> on as just as solid (or shaky) theorizing.

Reading up a little bit more about the movie, manking will apparently have
artificial gravity (!?) in a couple of decades, on top of the other
nonsense. Even if we can ignore all the bad physics, it makes absolutely
zero sense to me to be sending a *manned* craft for such a mission. What do
you need astronauts for, to steer the ship in the right direction so it
doesn't miss (!) the sun? Maybe it's explained somewhere in ironclad logic,
but I highly doubt it. All in all, it sounds like a really bad rehash of
last-minute-space-heroics-to-save-the-world genre. I don't understand the
relatively high IMDB score - maybe there's some terrific acting and
supremely zany dialogue to make up for plot deficiencies and bad science.

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