Re It seems to me that the pseudo gravity is caused by the relationship of the
edge of the space station to the centre.: And what is that relationship? Is a
rotating space station in motion or not? You are at liberty to regard it as
stationary (as there is no Absolute Space as a reference
It's six O'clock in the morning and I'm all bleary eyed but it seems to me that
the pseudo gravity is caused by the relationship of the edge of the space
station to the centre. As long as the edge stays in a fixed position to the
middle you will be pushed away regardless of your position or
Talking about 2001: a Space Odyssey reminds me of a puzzle I've ruminated over
for decades. This query is for physicists on FFL. If you're not a physicist
stop reading now - unless maybe you live in Fairfield and are a friend of John
Hagelin. In which case can you tap him on the shoulder, ask
You really enjoy living in your head, huh? You express the zero-sum game
mentality very well, indicating that for every winner, there must be a loser.
Also, instead of gaining your deepest insights from the silver screen, have you
ever tried to establish and understand a truth of your own, by
You really enjoy living in your head, huh? : Yes, and I keep it well fed with
juicy morsels.
Pure entertainment is all sci-fi is, except for the small minded, or desperate:
Jesus! What do have against fiction?
“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest
S3,
I liked the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey too. What do you think is the meaning
of the scene in the end where Dave, the astronaut, ends in a museum-like room
only to see himself get old and die?
Yes, that last scene was chilling. Kubrick mentioned in an interview that in
that final scene the character played by Keir Dullea is supposed to be in a
zoo. The soundtrack was intended to suggest alien lifeforms shuffling by and
watching their rare specimen in the same idle way we humans
Forgot to mention in my reply (above) to your query about Dave seeing himself
age and die: this was presumably an effective Kubrick touch to suggest to we
viewers that our astronaut is learning to die to his old self - he won't need
that where he's going. Kubrick himself never liked having to
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote :
You really enjoy living in your head, huh? : Yes, and I keep it well fed with
juicy morsels.
Pure entertainment is all sci-fi is, except for the small minded, or desperate:
Jesus! What do have against fiction?
Nothing.
