chabot@amber.DEC (l s chabot) (12/13/84)
Look, gravity on ships, okay, I'll put up with that. But gravity on ships for people and not for pencils? It seems to me that they took the neat pencil floating stuff from the shuttle to the moon and just had to do it too and combined it with the gravity on Discovery. Well, after all, the weight of a pencil ~= 0 compared to the weight of a human. Bye, bye, Newton. (Of course, what direct experience did he have with pencils in outer space, anyway.) I've got something to get off my chest: I liked 2001. Lots. I like Kubrick films (yes, especially "Barry Lyndon"). I didn't like 2010 because I didn't find it a particularly mature film, and it had what I consider to be some major flaws in physics, characterization, continuity, and plot. Frankly, I've always thought god is on Io, instead. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA shadow: [ISSN 0018-9162 v17 #10 p7, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]
okie@ihuxi.UUCP (B.K. Cobb) (12/17/84)
Hey, *think* a little, folks! The pencil trick was done on the bridge of the Leonov, *not* on the Discovery. The bridge is in the zero-gee section of the ship (I hope you noticed the rotating part of the Leonov? Good...that's where the medical bay, the wardroom, etc. were located. The bridge and the pod bay were in the non-rotating areas). As to how people can walk around in zero-gee, remember that they did it in 2001 (the pod bay, the accessways, etc.) -- and if you looked a bit closer, you'd notice that everyone on the Leonov wore what looked like strap-on booties over their shoes, probably used to provide attraction to the deck plates in the zero-gee areas. *Sheesh!* It's not that I *loved* 2010 (I also felt it lacked in plot and characterization) -- but I'm so tired of people attacking the continuity without paying attention. (I'm normally not this antagonistic, really. Blame it on my sinuses...) B.K.Cobb ihnp4!ihuxi!okie "My God, it's full of critics!"