If you like Space Settlement, go see Elysium! Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: If you like Space Settlement, go see Elysium!
# 13170 byalglobus@... on Aug. 12, 2013, 5:16 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
On Aug 12, 2013, at 7:22 AM, Combs, Mike wrote:
> Also recommend seeing the movie. It will be good that from now on, when were trying to explain space habitats to people, we can make reference to something they saw in at the movies, and they can have a mental image. I know Ive had conversations with people where they worried about claustrophobia, which let me know that the mental image they had was closer to Deep Space Nine than to what I was actually trying to convey. This movie should at least be a counter to that.
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> But that shot where the space ship just slipped over the edge of the torus and then entered the atmosphere and settled down to a landing took me by surprise. No glass roof!
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The roof was left off so people could sneak in -- an important part of the plot.
It's a movie, not engineering.