passengers (the movie)

[flykiller]

just came from it, recommend it.

it's clear the writers did some research that involved traveller tropes. their depiction of the autodoc is pretty good.

 

[mike wightman]

What did you like about it?

The trailers and clips I have seen look interesting.

 

[Condottiere]

Interesting question would be since water is denser than air, can you actually swim in zero gee?

 

[nobby-w]

Interesting question would be since water is denser than air, can you actually swim in zero gee?

Youtube has quite a few video clips of folks playing with blobs of water in Zero-G on the ISS. It might be worth perusing them. I think surface tension might be quite a big deal in Zero-G.

 

[Garyius2003]

Why do I believe I read a scifi novel that matched the storyline presented in the trailers, and the second half of the book featured aliens and wasn't very good?

I can't remember anything else about it

 

[flykiller]

What did you like about it?

the ship and its operations were beautifully envisioned, I thought it could really exist. the machinery was never portrayed as intelligent but only as highly interactive, and the human interactions with it were realistic, as were the human interactions with each other.

I think surface tension might be quite a big deal in Zero-G.

in 0g surface tension is the primary force determining water behavior. starting from underwater and transitioning to 0g it may not be possible to get it out of one's face.

the movie "antz" has a scene involving this - it correctly depicts surface tension being a greater factor than gravity in water behavior at insect-sized volumes.

 

[mike wightman]

One question.

Gravity - hull spin or magic?

On a side note I was truly inspired by the starbase in the last Star Trek film as an example of building in a magic gravity paradigm.

 

[ShapeShifter]

Is this like The Starlost -- but with a bigger budget?
:rofl:

I may wait to see it as the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are not all that hot.

 

[flykiller]

Gravity - hull spin or magic?

sufficiently high technology.

spin, actually. very nice scene where they are running through the mall, g fails, and they fly up into the air and then are slammed back to the deck.

 

[flykiller]

Is this like The Starlost

not quite. less disco. also, there are only two actors, with a third who makes only a brief appearance, and a fourth who plays a droid.