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Communications goof....

posted 19 years ago by MountainMan
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The distance from Earth to Mars varies, but given an average of 80 million miles, it takes radio waves 7 minutes in each direction (they travel at 186,000 mi/sec). Thus it would be a 14 minute delay to hear a reply to a transmission in either direction. Did you notice that afterr the crash the crew communicated two-way with Earth with no delays? By comparision, a radio wave can circle earth 8 times in one second.
Mountain Man

[–] occ4msr4z0r 19 years ago

it was the guy on the spaceship still orbiting mars i think

[–] jussimikael 18 years ago

Yeah thats right. I was thinking the same thing that mountainman referred but then I realized that they were actually talking to the guy on the orbit.

[–] roy-ford 18 years ago

You are correct, the obvious communications flaw is when the newscaster speaks directly with the captain of the expedition in the beginning of the movie.

[–] tuttt 18 years ago

The newscast could have been pre-recorded with the time delay edited out. (as in 2001)

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