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Just wondering if anybody had a clue as to candidate stars for the ship, Homestead II, in this movie.
The fuzzy part would be how quickly they got to .5 C?Ryan_m_b said:I saw the movie and loved it but can't remember if they ever specifically name the star system they're going to. I'm pretty sure they didn't bother. However I did a quick calculation in my head when Chris Pratt sends a message back to Earth (and is informed by the console that at the speed of light it will take a few decades to get a reply) and IIRC they were traveling at 0.5C. It was a 120 year journey so where ever they were going was ~60 light years away from Earth.
Ryan_m_b said:I saw the movie and loved it
Well, the thing is that if the roles had been gender-swapped, then it wouldn't have come across as the creepy male stalker thing.UsableThought said:I missed this when it came out (short half life?). I just read some reviews & apparently a lot of critics were turned off by the man waking up the woman just for company, saying it was a grossly selfish act, akin to violation or stalking. One critic seemed to think it was at least believable. I'm a huge fan of spaceship movies; would you recommend renting this when it becomes available?
sanman said:Lawrence Fishburne's character put it in perspective,
We saw it yesterday in the theaters.UsableThought said:I missed this when it came out (short half life?). I just read some reviews & apparently a lot of critics were turned off by the man waking up the woman just for company, saying it was a grossly selfish act, akin to violation or stalking. One critic seemed to think it was at least believable, given the guy was going crazy with loneliness on board a huge ship on a very long voyage. I'm a huge fan of spaceship movies; would you recommend renting this when it becomes available? I should add that personally I don't like misogynistic characters as such.
Noisy Rhysling said:We saw it yesterday in the theaters.
UsableThought said:I missed this when it came out (short half life?). I just read some reviews & apparently a lot of critics were turned off by the man waking up the woman just for company, saying it was a grossly selfish act, akin to violation or stalking. One critic seemed to think it was at least believable, given the guy was going crazy with loneliness on board a huge ship on a very long voyage. I'm a huge fan of spaceship movies; would you recommend renting this when it becomes available? I should add that personally I don't like misogynistic characters as such.
Lonely person becomes obsessed with not being alone. Not so very strange.UsableThought said:I missed this when it came out (short half life?). I just read some reviews & apparently a lot of critics were turned off by the man waking up the woman just for company, saying it was a grossly selfish act, akin to violation or stalking. One critic seemed to think it was at least believable, given the guy was going crazy with loneliness on board a huge ship on a very long voyage. I'm a huge fan of spaceship movies; would you recommend renting this when it becomes available? I should add that personally I don't like misogynistic characters as such.
Well, not quite. if it is a 120 year long trip by ship time at 0.5c, then relativistic effects become significant and the distance to the star as measured from the Earth would be ~69.3 light years.Ryan_m_b said:I saw the movie and loved it but can't remember if they ever specifically name the star system they're going to. I'm pretty sure they didn't bother. However I did a quick calculation in my head when Chris Pratt sends a message back to Earth (and is informed by the console that at the speed of light it will take a few decades to get a reply) and IIRC they were traveling at 0.5C. It was a 120 year journey so where ever they were going was ~60 light years away from Earth.
sanman said:This movie definitely reminded me of Starlost by Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova
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