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To: Larry Lucido

MISSION TO MARS had all kinds of lulus. For example, they abandon their space ship as it hurtles toward Mars and float over to another craft in Mars orbit, magically shedding tens of thousands of mph. This is the same thing as Bugs Bunny jumping out of an airplane as it’s about to crash, except it’s about 100 times as ridiculous in quantitative terms.

In DEEP IMPACT there’s an amazing shot of a rendezvous with the comet, showing the comet’s tail waving like a flag and glistening like hand soap. A real comet’s tail is millions or tens of millions of kilometers long, and would be invisible as you approach the nucleus. This image was just outrageously ridiculous, and it says a lot that the movie was considered to be “scientific”.


32 posted on 08/18/2007 3:08:08 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew; Larry Lucido
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/mpmain.html
34 posted on 08/18/2007 3:33:11 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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