... And as far as space movies being unrealistic or inaccurate, remember, the general public isn't as "space proficient" as alot of us are. Plus, you have to keep them entertained for a couple hours. If they could see how boring the day to day work can be, it might not make for good entertainment. (I'm talking things that aren't launch/rollout/rollover related of course)
I think the last space gothic I truly enjoyed was Event Horizon. Gothic by the numbers.
But when they actually stick close to reality, like Apollo 13, the general public loves it. They may not squirm like we did at Armageddon, but they're not turned off by accuracy either.
... But when they actually stick close to reality, like Apollo 13, the general public loves it. They may not squirm like we did at Armageddon, but they're not turned off by accuracy either.NB: As long as the story is interesting and well written. Which it often isn't, so Hollywood prefers to rely on silly gimmicks.
Yet they can't put seat belts on the seats on the Enterprise?
Just from fun speculative angle, would there have been any plausible way to have launched a mission with non- Saturn V rockets with Earth orbit rendezvous?Would Titan rockets (with phony sat payloads) have been able to have carried a CSM, LM, or EDS?Or else, maybe they really launched this mission under the cover of Skylab, and then claimed that Skylab failed in this alternative universe. (Or else they faked all the Skylab footage)
When Jakes pulled the red switch, he set several events into motion. First he disconnected all radio and video feeds from downrange. They could not be reconnected without a complicated rewiring procedure. Second he destroyed both the endless tape loop and the video disc inside the console, wiping out any information that might have been recorded on them before he hit the panic button.Finally, he had activated monstrous jamming transmitters located on Merritt Island in Florida, which blanketed the microwave frequencies from downrange to prevent any unauthorized receivers from picking them up.
I have two paperback copies of Sargasso. Bought them because they have different covers. I haven't read the book, but based upon your brief excerpt, it doesn't look very readable.
The panic button was not a button at all, but a bright red knife switch positioned at the top right corner of the communications console. no one remembered who had originally installed the first panic button in those primitive days of the space program when all communications originated from the first missile control center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Although some gave the credit to Shorty Powers, he denied the honour, and there are no written records to prove or disprove the point....no one has ever uncovered the fact that as the world watched the U.S space shots, everything that happened on screen or over the radio had occurred seven seconds earlier in realtime
Did I spy an USSR LK Lander in that trailer too?
Skylon, I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking the same thing. Give this thing a chance, so far the general 'hate' on this is based of a two and a half minute trailer and a stereotype of bad unrealistic space movies like Armageddon.
The cover of my copy is below, and for a bit of context to what I quoted earlier, here is the opening paragraph and the key line on the first page:
Quote from: Graham2001 on 02/27/2011 03:14 pmThe cover of my copy is below, and for a bit of context to what I quoted earlier, here is the opening paragraph and the key line on the first page:Thanks for posting that, as I was going to scan in my other copy. It's a better cover, with the Bermuda Triangle symbol echoing the Apollo cone.
