Subject:
|
Alien and gravity
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.geek
|
Date:
|
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:01:20 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
59 times
|
| |
|
|
I'm watching the movie "Alien". Why is there gravity on board the ship?
It does not rotate to generate "artificial gravity", and there are no
large planets around. Ok, so they do operate in a solar system, but
they're not that close to a planet.
And why does the ship have a cool name like "Nostromo"? I mean, come
on, this is a commercial towing vehicle, right? So it should have a
"blunt" name like "Bertha" or "Big Boy" or something like that.
Oh, and I like the green text terminals and the computer room with
randomly flashing lights. It's so futuristic!
It's a great movie, though.
Fredrik
|
|
Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Alien and gravity
|
| (...) Wouldn't you want to enjoy gravity if you were traveling in space for months at a time? (...) Perhaps Nostromo is sufficiently blunt 400 years in the future. Even wrecker drivers take pride in their rigs - and no wonder! Drivers have to pay (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Alien and gravity
|
| (...) Because it's too darn hard to show zero grav over a whole movie. Either that or they have a gravity field generator of some kind. Or constant acceleration or deceleration (not that the crew are positioned correctly to show this). (...) If they (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Alien and gravity
|
| (...) The ship and crew are full of gravity throughout the movie; it's a grave situation. (I apologize.) (...) I just saw Aliens again this weekend, and I have another question. Why does a ship the size of New Jersey (or whatever its size--it's (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
53 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
