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  Re: Another Consequence of Military Service  
From: Warp
Date: 25 Jun 2012 07:28:08
Message: <4fe84b48@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 25/06/2012 11:07 AM, Warp wrote:
> > Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
> >> - Why are these ships so damned loud in the high vacuum of outer space?
> >
> > It's a filming convention.

> Still doesn't really explain why all ships have to make that low 
> rumbling "I'm moving through space" noise, but hey...

Why do all cars make the same noise? Lack of imagination?

> I literally can't find the image I'm looking for, but near the end of 
> Star Wars Episode I, when the "driod control ship" blows up from the 
> inside, the pieces all dramatically sink downwards... despite the planet 
> clearly being BEHIND the ship, not BELOW it.

Perhaps the gravity generator malfunctioned?

> (While we're on the subject, why do ships always park perpendicular to 
> the surface of a planet's equator rather than parallel to it anyway?)

Why not?

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                                                          - Warp


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