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Observations

posted 4 years ago by chris109 (3)
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He shoots himself off the Lima and into the ring of Neptune. Now him being hit with all of those rocks would certainly have thrown his trajectory off course. But, noooooo. There is his ship right there, all lined up for his landing. And being pummeled with those rocks would have slowed him down enough where he could have used his 'brakes' so as not to go flying past the ship. And how fortunate is he that he manages to grab the part of the ship that he needs to get back in. He is one lucky guy.

And how is it, he has the same beard stubble for 3 months?

Also, never knew, that when one is in zero gravity for a while, that you start to see little tinkerbells or whatever.

And, what was the gas in the container that killed the commander?

I assume there are no g-forces when one blasts off from Mars.

Was the Cepheus's original mission to get kill daddy McBride?

And what happened to Donald Sutherland's character? Last thing I heard, he was in surgery.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I feel for you having to watch this. There is far too much stupid in this film to bother explaining. It had some decent looking "spacey stuff" but APPARENTLY, wasnt a science fiction film at all. Just a Hallmark drama that HAPPENED (for no real reason) to take place in space. Try to forget it and move on. :)

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I think the reason they were supposed to have died from the exposure to the gas was that it was supposed to be a Halon fire suppression system and the writers thought that it worked by sucking the oxygen out of the air. That was a myth when Halon system were installed in computer rooms back in the days of mainframes... It was a myth as the system didn't actually eliminate the oxygen but because you were told to evacuate the area when a system was triggered people thought it was because you would suffocate the true was more boring in that you were supposed to evacuate because of the toxic chemicals released by the fire, not the Halon... But that was the only explanation I could come up with... I do know that Halon systems are still recommended on some aircraft, but because of green weenies and the clean air act the gas is no longer manufactured so current system have to rely on recycled halon from older units.

[–] chris109 (3) 4 years ago

IIRC, know way back when, a recommendation was for boats to have Halon releasers in the engine compartment. But, in this case, what was an astronaut supposed to do in case of fire? Go thru the hassle of putting on a spacesuit if there was a fire and then using the extinguisher?

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I have to think in space the only real option would be for the crew to put on a mask, lock the compartment with the fire and vent the air... Not a nice solution but in space it would probably be the most efficient at saving the ship from complete destruction.