Posted on 10/07/2015 9:25:26 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Winner3000 admits he’s never seen one. Therefore he’s an expert.
I never noticed that, but I’m no expert on the martial arts. Damon seems to be in decent shape, but there’s a big difference between gym work and what Bourne can do. I think that I read all of the books, but that was a long time ago.
No scientist but I was a production tech. I’ve seen both sublimely stupid and ingenious responses meet the uncompromising sciences- perhaps that makes me expect too much from a movie that says it’s about “sciencing” solutions.
The Bourne Legacy was incredible. I love Jeremy Renner.
Why the hell was Matt Damon cast in that movie? Leading guy should have been Will Smith, Denzel Washington or Wesley Snipes...with Morgan Freeman cast as the brains of the Mission and Mission-leader, of course.
For me it is an agreement of sorts: if story teller does it’s part “well enough”, I’ll do my part and “willingly suspend my disbelief”.
I mean after all, I’m spending my time and/or money to be entertained - so I figure I may as well get my money’s worth...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief
OK. Discounting the action here are some other issues I have...
Wind would never exceed 10 mph on Mars, so all plot devices involving storms were not scientific.
The main spaceship was too large. Only a direct shot out of the atmosphere with a sustained acceleration out of the Earth’s gravity would be capable of the initial trajectory to Mars.
There would not have been enough fuel for a second trip back to Mars if the space ship was of realistic size.
A gravitational slingshot attempt at 180 degrees would not result in the acceleration they claimed possible.
For a crew that maintained their fitness in simulated gravity while they travelled, they sure got exhausted quickly on low gravity Mars.
He did not need to keep burning hydrazine to make water as all water was sealed into the closed environment. He just needed the initial batch. Too bad NASA did not plan ahead and grab the h2o from the humid air or from the permafrost. When he repaired the greenhouse portal with a sheet of plastic, pressure changes pushed the plastic inward while he was inside without his suit on.
NASA would have had other plans for the poo. And probably would not have bagged each movement separately.
The 50 day trip in the solar vehicle would have required more food and fresh water than he took with him. The rover did not recycle water - where did it come from? It did not seem practical that the rover vehicle was designed to be pressurized. Since power needed to remain pressure was drained each night.
The reunion of the Astronauts on the second trip to Mars was ridiculous. Almost as bad as that movie Gravity a couple of years ago with George Clooney.
Space is big and we are microscopic and getting stupider every day. We will all die on Earth someday.
Nope, winds on Mars can hit 60MPH:
http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9301/could-you-feel-the-wind-on-mars
I doubt the main space ship was launched whole. There’s long been discussion in NASA that any manned exploration beyond the moon would require ships we build in space ala the ISS.
They had fuel sent to them.
OK so maybe they needed to go 520. We know the sling shot effect works.
Even with hours of fitness maintenance people lose muscle mass in space. It’s unavoidable, the best you can do is slow it.
Some of that water goes into the plants. And it pushed out with pressure, it was wind that pushed it in.
Actually what they showed was basically how they deal with poo now.
He took everything he had left. And nobody said anything about power being drained all the way to zero every night, or that it was remaining pressurized then. I think the design was like an airlock so it sucked air into chambers before the doors being opened.
Another action sequence.
Complete besides the point. And frankly stupid. Survival of the species means getting off the rock. If you don’t want to even try might as well kill yourself now.
I’m no scientist. Just a skeptic. Take care.
A variety of actors could have played Damon’s role but despite that it was an excellent flick! On a side note, pay the extra few bucks and watch it in 3D.........pretty awesome.
(How is this propaganda? I haven’t heard anything like that. Certainly not about the novel.)
It’s the fact that the same kind of people, including Matt Damon and most liberals, want us to buy into their proposed solutions for “Global Warming”/”Climate Change”, etc, and we should not even discuss it because it’s “settled science”. Which it is not. This type of movie just deepens the narrative.
I'm an old geek, FWIW, and didn't cringe at the science.
There is nothing about global warming in the film. That I recall. I didn’t find it terribly interesting to begin with.
I saw it as the duct tape was already on his person, which makes sense since he was constantly planning for the worst case scenarios...
Maybe I saw it wrong...
As for - 150' outside temp...
For what little I read, that's incorrect, avg is - 55'
That still a pretty awesome trick to put duct tape on a cracked helmet...
The ending of that movie was so ridiculous, even if you dropped acid it would still be unbelievable...
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