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Are they f$%^ing retarded?


This bunch of morons is supposed to be "the brightest ones"? Seriously? Scientists, engineers, technicians, doctors and so on, can't f-ing figure out that this ship is fake?

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They had a movie screen of stars out the front window - fooled 'em, fooled 'em good!

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Haha yeah. It's strange how you need a lot of EVA for a small space station around the Earth's orbit but for a star traveling journey they never do EVA. :D

It's something we could swallow. After all they left in the 60s.

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Dumb comment. The small space station's purpose implies the need for an occasional EVA. The purpose of interstellar generation ship does not rely on any EVAs.

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DUh where dey gettin' all da gravity from eh?

Why is there no wear and tear on a 50 year old ship?

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There were lots of wear and tear and they fixed it, hence the believe that they were in an actualspace ship.

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yeah well all these " scientist" and crap are only americans... you can't expect much from them ;)

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lel :D

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No, they're Canadians pretending they were Americans. So, why didn't they use the Canadian space progam as the basis for the show? Oh, yeah, you don't have one. A second rate production from a second class country. But at least every single woman was attractive and they had alcohol. rme

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It's called the Canadian Space Agency, and yes, it does exist. NASA and CSA work together all the time. The CSA, as well as space programs from Russia and Japan and Europe were all partners in building the International Space Station. Canada has been responsible for a lot of amazing tech and personnel used by NASA.

Space doesn't belong to anyone; we're all in this together.



Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.

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Aleays wondered what CSA stood for in the movie credits, thanks. :)

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very true

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It was the 60's though, it's not like people had seen many spaceships.

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Regardless, they weren't just passengers, they run and drive this ship, they were doing preventive maintenance, checks and services, they would sooner or later (rather sooner than later) discovered 60's-era surveillance cameras and systems that don't belong to the ship.

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Please use a spoiler tag.

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Seeing as how they were born & raised in that ship, since the 60's, of course they didn't realize it's fake.

Heck, for all we know a few hundred million miles from earth is just a giant screen and we're bottled up in here. We think we're smart and know everything and have a high horse, but we're not. We can't even properly predict tomorrow's weather or what's at the bottom of our own oceans, yet we've been here for thousands of years recording history.

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A few hundred million or even billion miles out from Earth, you couldn't get the kind of observed parallax differences. Which of course is another way those people could have figured things out. I guess they never actually looked at the "stars" they saw, or measured things.

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Thanks for the spoiler

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