"Wrinkles on the outside of the spacecraft and the ablative fabric. "
thermal blankets are a real thing, they are wrinkly. see for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=thermal+blanket+satellite&num=100&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMIpqfE1Za5yAIVgYwNCh0QwAEc&biw=1339&bih=913 now you certainly don't see them on things intended for atmospheric flight. in their current use thermal blankets on satellites are only exposed after an aeroshell has been jettisoned and atmospheric drag is negligible (>150km altitude). On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Chuck McCown via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > Interstellar > > meh > > Cheap ass sets. Old HP test gear (circa 1975) in the wall of a space > station, also primary flight instruments from an airplane. Wrinkles on the > outside of the spacecraft and the ablative fabric. Cheap weightless > effects. Robots with CLI screens scrolling text. Robots that interface > with spacecraft that was built 100 years apart. Setting green corn fields > ablaze. Having lots of new tires and gasoline in a dire survival of > mankind situation. Farmer just happening to have a laptop, RF gear, > antenna etc to take control of a random drone that appears in the sky. > Then he guts the drone for a controller for his tractor... Landing only > type craft having enough fuel to take off again and get back to a space > station. Two astronauts walk a mile or so but it takes a spacecraft > several minutes to get there. Something the size of a Saturn V taking off > inside a missile silo with lots of people in it. Ceramic tile on the > hibernation tanks on a space station and space craft. All of the > spacecraft bobs and weaves like it is in turbulence or a rough sea. The > relative motion between spacecraft is ridiculous. Flags surviving the wind > for 20 years. > > Other than that it was great. My wife loved it. >
