the "convertible" didn't throw you? It did me....i mean, really? Now you just KNEW halfway through that launch the tent tarp would come off....i mean, you just knew it.
then again they pointed out the very thin atmosphere....and stuff usually burns up on re-entry, not taking off. but still - are you kidding me? ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck McCown To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review Minor spoiler alert....... The few complaints are: Hermes EVA untethered. Not gonna happen. Standing in a docking port untethered waiting for a cargo shipment. Not gonna happen. Hermes crew being able to calculate dynamic intercept and explosive decompression thrust issues in seemingly minutes. Perhaps computers are that good in that year but the guy on earth had to go physically plug into a supercomputer to do the same thing and it seemingly took him several days... (that would not happen either, the physically plugging into the supercomputer) Old lander having a data bus that could interconnect with new stuff. Perhaps. Maybe there is some kind of old NASA standard data bus like RS-232. Might could have happened. Antenna on old lander looked too small to do the trick. I am thinking if that was a true replica, it was probably talking to an orbiting relay spacecraft back when it was still working. Video links on Hermes and on Mars seemed to be interlaced analog video.... Come on! Analog video artifacts too when the power was blinking. We all understand pixilation, that is what you would truly be seeing. Hydrazine on iridium makes steam, not hydrogen. But even better for making water. Does not require a flame. Ironman thrust vectors would probably not look like what we saw. Potatoes would not instantly freeze so hard they would die. Takes time for the heat to leave them. I think he could have quickly saved a few viable specimens. I positively loved the hexadecimal / ASCII pointer system... That stroked some dormant but very favorite gray cells in my noggin. I wished he had scavenged some of those larger parabolic antennas and rigged up a high bandwidth link with earth. They could have use the dishes at Goldstone, Canberra and Madrid to talk to him half of each day. (Of course with the delay). I imagine he would have had to track the earth so that may have been pretty difficult to do for any length of time. From: Patrick Leary Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 6:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review My wife, two teen daughters and I saw Martian this weekend. It was one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time and I’m a movie freak. Perfect casting and even better script. Matt Damon had a tough job carrying the film in his scenes, but his use of the station video-based report filing enables us to get more entertaining dialogue from him (as opposed to the slightly more I’m-going-crazy-talking-to-myself lines from Tom Hanks in Castaway talking to “Wilber”). Throughout the movie Damon is friggin’ great (but those of us who like in the Bourne movies know his ability to nail a role without coming across as a cartoon character already knew this). The science seemed just plausible enough for non-scientists. Not enough credit in the reviews will be given to the Nasa team cast on earth, but without it, the movie would have dragged and feeling their urgency and suspense builds our own. Just go see it. I cannot imagine any WISP not loving this movie, as it takes one’s inner geek and shows us how to turn it into total badassery. Patrick Leary, Telrad 727-501-3735 From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 12:26 AM To: Animal Farm <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review Ha On Oct 4, 2015 9:00 PM, "Glen Waldrop" <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 10:56 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review Please no spoilers On Oct 3, 2015 7:14 PM, "Daniel White" <[email protected]> wrote: I saw it yesterday. It was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Two thumbs up. Thank you, Daniel White [email protected] Cell: +1 (303) 746-3590 Skype: danieldwhite Social: LinkedIn: Twitter From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2015 6:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review Martian Loved it. Much better physics than that silly George Clooney movie. 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