Bullgrit
Adventurer
Just saw Gravity. It's definitely a movie to see in the theater to really feel the immensity of the "setting". It was a really good movie. I didn't have a problem with suspension of disbelief during the movie, for the thrill of the story. But stepping out of it and talking about it as "science":
Would a space-walking astronaut really be flying around, (playing around), like that? That seemed very dangerous, not to mention a waste of resources for just playing around.
Would that many satellites be taken out that quickly by the debris of just one satellite? Space is HUUUUUUGE. Even with thousands of satellites in orbit, they are so small and the space between them is vast.
Would the Hubble telescope, the ISS, and the Tiagong really all be that close together in orbit? All that space to work in, and they're within visual range of the unaided eyeball?
Would it even be possible to find and retrieve anyone flung away from a space base like that? Again, space is huge, a person is so small, and the speed is pretty fast.
Bullgrit
Would a space-walking astronaut really be flying around, (playing around), like that? That seemed very dangerous, not to mention a waste of resources for just playing around.
Would that many satellites be taken out that quickly by the debris of just one satellite? Space is HUUUUUUGE. Even with thousands of satellites in orbit, they are so small and the space between them is vast.
Would the Hubble telescope, the ISS, and the Tiagong really all be that close together in orbit? All that space to work in, and they're within visual range of the unaided eyeball?
Would it even be possible to find and retrieve anyone flung away from a space base like that? Again, space is huge, a person is so small, and the speed is pretty fast.
Bullgrit