But he could have scooped up some and put them in the rover to keep warm.
From: Josh Luthman
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 11:29 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
SPOILERS
Mars is -55c, one would think those potatoes would be useless in minutes. Even
if they took an hour, it was hours before he sealed the lab.
Untethered was driving me nuts. So dumb. Bad for science and the movie.
Josh Luthman
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On Oct 10, 2015 1:19 AM, "CBB - Jay Fuller" <par...@cyberbroadband.net> wrote:
the "convertible" didn't throw you? It did me....i mean, really? Now you
just KNEW halfway through that launch the tent tarp would come off....i mean,
you just knew it.
then again they pointed out the very thin atmosphere....and stuff usually
burns up on re-entry, not taking off.
but still - are you kidding me?
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck McCown
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
Minor spoiler alert.......
The few complaints are:
Hermes EVA untethered. Not gonna happen.
Standing in a docking port untethered waiting for a cargo shipment. Not
gonna happen.
Hermes crew being able to calculate dynamic intercept and explosive
decompression thrust issues in seemingly minutes. Perhaps computers are that
good in that year but the guy on earth had to go physically plug into a
supercomputer to do the same thing and it seemingly took him several days...
(that would not happen either, the physically plugging into the supercomputer)
Old lander having a data bus that could interconnect with new stuff.
Perhaps. Maybe there is some kind of old NASA standard data bus like RS-232.
Might could have happened.
Antenna on old lander looked too small to do the trick. I am thinking if
that was a true replica, it was probably talking to an orbiting relay
spacecraft back when it was still working.
Video links on Hermes and on Mars seemed to be interlaced analog video....
Come on! Analog video artifacts too when the power was blinking. We all
understand pixilation, that is what you would truly be seeing.
Hydrazine on iridium makes steam, not hydrogen. But even better for making
water. Does not require a flame.
Ironman thrust vectors would probably not look like what we saw.
Potatoes would not instantly freeze so hard they would die. Takes time for
the heat to leave them. I think he could have quickly saved a few viable
specimens.
I positively loved the hexadecimal / ASCII pointer system... That stroked
some dormant but very favorite gray cells in my noggin.
I wished he had scavenged some of those larger parabolic antennas and
rigged up a high bandwidth link with earth. They could have use the dishes at
Goldstone, Canberra and Madrid to talk to him half of each day. (Of course
with the delay). I imagine he would have had to track the earth so that may
have been pretty difficult to do for any length of time.
From: Patrick Leary
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 6:12 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
My wife, two teen daughters and I saw Martian this weekend. It was one of
the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time and I’m a movie freak. Perfect
casting and even better script. Matt Damon had a tough job carrying the film in
his scenes, but his use of the station video-based report filing enables us to
get more entertaining dialogue from him (as opposed to the slightly more
I’m-going-crazy-talking-to-myself lines from Tom Hanks in Castaway talking to
“Wilber”).
Throughout the movie Damon is friggin’ great (but those of us who like in
the Bourne movies know his ability to nail a role without coming across as a
cartoon character already knew this). The science seemed just plausible enough
for non-scientists.
Not enough credit in the reviews will be given to the Nasa team cast on
earth, but without it, the movie would have dragged and feeling their urgency
and suspense builds our own.
Just go see it. I cannot imagine any WISP not loving this movie, as it
takes one’s inner geek and shows us how to turn it into total badassery.
Patrick Leary, Telrad
727-501-3735
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 12:26 AM
To: Animal Farm <af@afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
Ha
On Oct 4, 2015 9:00 PM, "Glen Waldrop" <gwl...@cngwireless.net> wrote:
From: Jaime Solorza
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 10:56 AM
To: Animal Farm
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
Please no spoilers
On Oct 3, 2015 7:14 PM, "Daniel White" <afmu...@gmail.com> wrote:
I saw it yesterday. It was one of the best movies I have seen in a
long time.
Two thumbs up.
Thank you,
Daniel White
afmu...@gmail.com
Cell: +1 (303) 746-3590
Skype: danieldwhite
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From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2015 6:48 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review
Martian
Loved it.
Much better physics than that silly George Clooney movie.
And funny too.
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