DISQUS

Pimpnickel · 7 months ago

Also something that does not happen in space: hyperdrive or warp speed. Impossible.the amount of fuel we need to burn and the time it takes to reach other planets is frigging humongus. To even contemplate moving at warp speed.....no way hose!

RobertFure · 7 months ago

Strangely enough, inventing faster than light travel is more likely than some of the other things. Scientists even think that the warp drive in Star Trek would theoretically work. The problem, as you noted, is fuel consumption. Nearly everyone agrees that all the fuels we know of now (nuclear, rocket, etc) are incapable of accelerating an object even close to lightspeed.

Aleric · 6 months ago

Also how many devices that they used in the original series has already been invented and expanded upon. Black berrys, cell phones, lap tops, flat screen montiors, MRI, etc. All it takes is someone to find a way around the energy consumption to make faster than light travel possible.

Icarus · 7 months ago

This article is pretty kick ass. I feel like I dun lernt stuff. The "stuff freezing in space" reminded me a lot of that scene from "Sunshine" which I remember causing much debate over whether or not that guy from Fantastic 4 would've survived.

HGMIV · 7 months ago

Congratulations, you've just ruined every sci-fi for me. ever.

GuiltyTrace · 7 months ago

They got it right with Discovery One is A Space Odyssey. Aerodynamics and wings and spoilers don't mean shit if your car is a piece of shit - I mean, if you're in space. Also, about the whole humanoid thing, quit shitting on my dreams, okay? Albeit she was green (and a red head) she was still hot.

And probably had more than one vagina.

GuiltyTrace · 7 months ago

They got it right with Discovery One in A Space Odyssey. Aerodynamics and wings and spoilers don't mean shit if your car is a piece of shit - I mean, if you're in space. Also, about the whole humanoid thing, quit shitting on my dreams, okay? Albeit she was green (and a red head) she was still hot.

And probably had more than one vagina.

RobertFure · 7 months ago

I'm 100% with you about wanting to bone some alien tail - possibly even literally. But on the hand of realism, imagine the kind of flesh eating microbial monsters that would live in a green womans vagina. Goodbye, peter.

For now, we shall both have to settle for finding kinky girls at Comic Con who don't mind body paint.

GuiltyTrace · 7 months ago

Comic Con? I don't have the money to make a trip out there. Maybe you have the luxury of hooking up with die-hard Trekkies or engage in a multi-Princess Leia orgy, but I have to settle for girls at the public library. I pray at least one of them will let me spray-paint them green... or something.

Seaghan · 7 months ago

You must be real fun to go see movies with.

Bethany P · 7 months ago

:) good calls.

Braedee · 6 months ago

They were saying that to travel faster than light, instead of moving the ship itself, its possible to move space and the flow of time, by going through a warp hole or something rather. There's massive articles about it around. Event Horizon style.

And secondly, you don't "explode" in space, but our bodies are held together mainly by the constant pressure the atmosphere holds on us. Therefore if you were in space without a suit, without atmosphere, you don't have that pressure. So your body "falls apart". So yes, in essence your eyes would indeed come out of your head.

karman · 6 months ago

okay, and now my edits:

sound- okay, no sound in space. But if were talking about movies, well.....it just doesn't seem appropriate to have no sound for extended sequences of film. You might as well argue that life doesn't have a soundtrack. It's there to ensure readability, besides, whose to say that the sounds aren't being recorded from inside said ship?

Hovering- well, besides the fact that you what you mean to talk about is GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT not GEOSYNCRONOUS ORBIT, both are currently achievable and physically functional. Pluto has a geostationary moon, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have thrusters.

Falling into the Sun- well YEAH. But falling into the sun is the same damn thing to have an unfueled trajectory heading toward a star. It just so happens that 'falling' is the only word in our vocabulary to describe it. I'd take this one up with oxford, not hollywood.

Boiling Blood/Instantly Freezing/Burning Up/Instant Death- All solid points

Slow lasers- well aside from the fact that 'lasers' aren't in any of the big films (we have turbolasers, phasers, etc.), this logic entirely depends on point-to-point motion. Whos to say that these 'slow lasers' follow such a trajectory? For all we know, turbolasers spin about in an elliptical EM singularity, which happens to travel slowly. Or perhaps with phasers, a narrow confinement field constricts the photons en-route, to ensure the payload is explosive? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic....

Humanoids- Well, for any species to be capable of developing technology, certain biological constants ARE necessary. Bi-opposable thumbs, bipedal, etc. These are biological necessities to manipulating ones environment. So as a geneticist: Can you get these patterns in anything other than a humanoid, carbon-based lifeform? No. It's simply not possible, at least, not by the science supporting your claim.

Gravity Stuff- nonsensical planets aside....there is a known planetary habitation restrictive field. One in which all stars possess: A point in which hydrogen exists in a liquid form, and therefore, any Earth-sized planetoid with sufficient mass can sustain life (given the proper condidtions). And the likelihood of these planets existing en masse, appears to be growing as we discover more and more extrasolar planets. In fact, a good candidate has already been found within 10 million lightyears of our own solar system. but given our limited knowledge of extrasolar planetoids, we really don't have the evidence to even build statistics upon.

Dogfights: Well, wings aside, dogfights in space WILL happen....when space is militarized. Watch BSG. the value of small autonomous vessels in space to accompany capital ships is obvious, especially when one considers the use of kinetic energy weapons to provide flak fire as a basis for shielding against guided missiles (which happen to function perfectly well in space) And another valuable piece of military fact that many people seem to overlook. Streamlined vessels would decrease the size of the the target in head-on-head exchanges... It's much easier to hit a jet from an angle then it is from directly in front or behind behind. An aerodynamic design makes sense.

justadude · 4 months ago

Sorry for getting to this forum so late, but I have one. Fire! Fire does not happen in space, because fire needs oxygen to burn. So for all those ginormous explosions in Star Wars, not gonna happen. Granted, you can make the argument that the fire is burning on the oxygen stores that were released upon ship damage. However, to this I say, Oxygen has to be kept in a pressurized tank. At earth atmosphere, puncturing a pressurized tank scatters the content pretty fast. Now add the pressure difference between space and the ship, that oxygen is spread too far and thin to be any use to fire.