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12 Nov 2024 18:48:28 EST (-0500)
  Re: Bad science fiction  
From: Warp
Date: 18 Oct 2009 15:14:29
Message: <4adb6915@news.povray.org>
somebody <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
> 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.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlexxpmjrh25rbg?from=Main.ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch

  So now that you have "proven" that the movie I mentioned sucks, what next?
What was your point and goal?

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                                                          - Warp


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