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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 1774891" data-attributes="member: 6957">Back to Sky Captain, since it did not try to be hard SF I did not have a problem with the movie, as I said, it hit a lot of nostalgia buttons - many of them the same ones that Rocketeer, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Star Wars hit for me. (Rocketeer being closest.)It would be no work at all to adapt OGL Steampunk to run Sky Captain as a setting, simply borrowing the weapons from D20 Modern would suffice.The soft focus was interesting, fitting well with the retro future look of the movie. Like I said, I enjoyed it, giving it a 7 or 8, in spite of some rather uninspired acting.The Auld Grump - And in regards to Mr. Dyall's comments...Okay from the top - it was a chemical not a nuclear reaction - not fission. (Nuclear reactions pertain to the nucleus of the atom, chemical do not, only the valances.) Did they teach you anything in school? Guess not. There is a slight difference between the two. Plants turn CO2 into oxygen and carbon with the input of energy in the form of sunlight, requiring that input of energy to sustain the reaction. Animals alllow a controlled cumbustion of carbon to take place - releasing energy. Both require fuel, the carbon/oxygen reaction relaeasing a greater amount than the slower displacement of carbon from the CO2. The photosynthesis of plants is a more complicated and multi stage process compared to the relatively simple one of basically 'burning' the carbon in animals.The little hoppy things were called <a href="http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/nematode" target="_blank">Nematodes</a> in the movie - guess what - they aren't nematodes, therefor 'little hoppy things', which is at least something they were. What mass? The 'nematodes' were breeding faster than they were consuming, Out massing what they ate. (something actually commented on by the characters in the movie.)They were obviously highly energetic creatures despite supposedly turning CO2 into oxygen and carbon (as I said a reaction that requires an input of energy to sustain.) Look up the word 'nematode' by the way, then watch the movie again, nematodes are round worms.And guess what - guns can fire in a vacuum. Goddard (you remember him, the guy who also demonstrated liquid fueled rockets?) demonstrated that back in the 1920s, the whole point of gunpowder and its replacements is that they contain the oxygenating agent in the mix. in the case of blackpowder this is suplied by the saltpeter, which also acts as the 'kindling'..And you admit not seeing the movie Contact, yep, 'nuf said. Your one cogent comment was in regards to 2010, the assumption made was that the monoliths were transporting matter, not made clear in the movie, but made so in the book. 2010 was at least closer than either Red Planet or Mission To Mars, though matter transmission steps too close to magic for my tase.Done. (with Apologies to Piratecat.)*EDIT* Moved the portion pertaining to the subject to the top.</blockquote>

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