Im trying to watch Gravity. DISASTROUSLY poor version of orbital mechanics (i.e. space navigation), causing a ridiculous chain of impossible events. None of the major events in this film have even the remotest chance of actually happening. Gravitys worse than the cringe-inducing Armageddon. I could go on and on. This is typically lazy Hollywood, they do this anytime something involving outer space happens in a movie. Rather than taking a very small part of the films $100 million budget to hire a space science consultant, maybe someone from NASA, they just did the usual and figured, Hey, its space. Anything can happen. No, it cant. Dont ask me for specifics, if you didnt catch this stuff on you own, my explanation may sound like gibberish. Much of orbital mechanics is counter-intuitive. Lets start with procedural stuff on a space mission thats pure Hollywood BS. 1. All 3 crew members would NEVER be EVA (spacewalking) at the same time, for obvious safety reasons. 2. A crewman, ESPECIALLY the Mission Commander, would never be joyriding in circles around a spacecraft, wasting precious and impossible to replace reaction fuel. 3. The Idiot-in-Chief would never be chattering like a nervous schoolgirl while a Mission Specialist was trying to perform a complex scientific task. All this is just in the first 10 minutes, and I wont even get into the scientific errors, which are even worse...well...chain reaction. Satellites are in VASTLY different altitudes and trajectories and a single debris cloud couldnt strike them all, nor with anywhere near a relative velocity of 20,000 mph.The expansion of that same debris cloud would soon be halted by (wait for it)...gravity. Im done, at that point. It only gets worse.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 05:52:51 +0000
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