fearandloathing writes:
BTW if you havent seen the movie "Sunshine', 2007 british movie, check it out, I liked it.
i see "sunshine" as a movie about human stupidity.
pretty much everything that happens in the movie is the result of someone doing something really, really dumb.
for starters, they need a crew of seven to hit a target like
the sun. i think i could program a 386 to hit the sun. i'm not even sure i'd need a computer to do it. the sun is the larget, most massive target in the solar system
by far. all you'd have to do to hit it is make sure you don't fall into orbit with it or anything else. and that's pretty easy: fire your rocket so it goes outside the ecliptic plane, and then have it turn toward the sun. why they need
people on this mission in the first place, i don't know.
but the one that really gets me, every time i watch this movie, is when they get trapped on the icarus 1, and have to get back to the icarus 2 with only one spacesuit. so they fire capa in the suit, and two other guys, out of the airlock, and leave one behind to die. why not fire the other three out of the airlock, and then slowly depressurize the ship, and the guy with the suit can take his sweet time getting back?
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