jsoc@lasspvax.UUCP (John Socha) (12/14/84)
In article <> jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty) writes: > >...I've decided that Hyames reputation for >playing fast and loose with scientific credibility is intact. > Hyames seems to have gotten some things right in the film that I wouldn't have thought of, like the ring around Jupiter. Yet some of the more "obvious" things he seems to have missed. Like the following: The Leonov reversed it's direction when they got to Juptier while the center section was still spinning. If you've ever tried to rotate a gryoscope, you've discovered that you can't simply rotate an object that's spinning. I think they should have stopped the spin of the central module before turing the Leonov around. But then again, the fighters in Star Wars flew around like airplanes instead of space-craft, and that was quite fun anyway. So perhaps we'll just have to wait until the screen writers can figure out how to make realistic scenes fun. John Socha {cornell}!lasspvax!jsoc