04-03-2014, 10:50 PM
I got to see Gravity before it left the "big screen". I caught it at Bluelight Cinemas (né The Oaks Theaters). Can't beat $5.25 for a movie.
In spite of all I'd heard from Neil deGrasse Tyson about mistakes/errors, I enjoyed the film. The one issue that struck me that I hadn't heard was that when Bullock was "undoing" bolts, she kept turning them the wrong way. Now I don't know how "space wrenches" work or if those Ruskies use reverse threads, but it's "Lefty loosey"...
It occurred to me that the span of time covered in the film is probably 6 hours or so. In that time, Bullock goes from Space Shuttle to ISS to Soyeuz to Chinese Space Station to Chinese Soyeuz copy. I think that might be the most space vehicles occupied in a single day in any space movie.
--tg
In spite of all I'd heard from Neil deGrasse Tyson about mistakes/errors, I enjoyed the film. The one issue that struck me that I hadn't heard was that when Bullock was "undoing" bolts, she kept turning them the wrong way. Now I don't know how "space wrenches" work or if those Ruskies use reverse threads, but it's "Lefty loosey"...
It occurred to me that the span of time covered in the film is probably 6 hours or so. In that time, Bullock goes from Space Shuttle to ISS to Soyeuz to Chinese Space Station to Chinese Soyeuz copy. I think that might be the most space vehicles occupied in a single day in any space movie.
--tg