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Re: Alien and gravity
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Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:50:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> I'm watching the movie "Alien". Why is there gravity on board the ship?
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).
> 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.
If they aren't in a gravitational orbit, it'll depend on how close.
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> 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.
The people who named it aren't blue collar?
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> Oh, and I like the green text terminals and the computer room with
> randomly flashing lights. It's so futuristic!
They were stuck having to avoid the murderous talking computer, which would
have been better, but HAL 9000 is just too much of an icon to duplicate.
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> It's a great movie, though.
I saw the first showing in a mostly empty theatre with really high-backed
seats. Just me and the Alien, and no one else except a big screen and
thunderous speakers. Scariest movie I ever saw. :-)
Bruce
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| In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:>I saw the first showing in a mostly empty theatre with really high-backed (...) Back in '92 a local theater showed the Alien triple-header to a mostly empty theater. It was wild to see the three (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| 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 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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