At 15:16 3-7-01 -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
>Now, my gripe is that if NASA can track fist-sized objects in orbit around
>space, why can't a space shuttle/space freighter/Survey ship/ not see a
>debris field using simple radar? Also, they depict such impacts drill
>straight through the hull, and air starts to leak out. In two occasions,
>persons were actually hit. Why is there no massive gunshot sound?
Maybe the producers remembered the phrase "In space, no one can hear you
scream", and reasoned that it is then also impossible to hear that gunshot
sound. Or maybe including a realistic gunshot sound (in this case, one hell
of a "BANG") would shatter the eardrums of the audience...
>Why does it not explode from friction?
That's simple. Those spacecrafts that get hit usually have the movie's
heroes on board. If the ship would explode, the heroes would die and the
movie would end after only 30 minutes. :)
Jeroen
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