Posted on 05/11/2017 5:07:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
...pedantic nit picks...
Covenant gets hit with a “neutrino burst” dramatically disabling the deployed solar array and killing a portion of the hibernating crew. Through neutrinos are real, they, for the most part, pass right through solid matter, with nary a hit. Millions are passing through you and me, right now.
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The crew also decides to detour while moving at presumably relativistic speeds to investigate the strange signal. This actually happens lots in sci-fi, as it seems as easy as running errands around town to simply hop from one world to the next. In reality, mass and change of momentum are costly affairs in terms of energy. In space, you want to get there quickly, but any interstellar mission would involve long stretches of slow acceleration followed by deceleration to enter orbit at your destination… changing this flight plan would be out of the question, even for the futuristic crew of the Covenant.
...Covenant’s computer pinpoints the source of the mysterious signal, and gives its coordinates in right ascension and declination. OK, this is good: RA and declination are part of a real coordinate system astronomers use to find things in the sky… here on Earth. It’s an equatorial system, though, hardly handy when you get out into space. Maybe a reference system using the plane of the Milky Way galaxy would be more useful.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
Should have been titled Beneath the Planet of the Aliens: The Next Generation.
Alien franchise is ruined, reduced to “don’t go in there” B-horror movie action.
I don’t receommend.
Spoiler alert:
My son saw it and described it as an exercise in nihilism. No clear distinction between good and evil and then the bad guy wins.
Have you seen the Alien 3 Assembly Cut?
Completely different movie.
I like Alien 3 and 1 over all of them.
I have not seen that, and I have not ever heard of it either.
3, over a period of time, became one of my favorite Alien movies.
I saw Covenant last night too, and I also enjoyed that. Not sure what all the hate for it is about, it was pretty good.
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