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iconoclast
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 Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:08 am Asteroids look wrong in Star Trek |
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Even the new BBC satire "hyperdrive" has got it right!
The asteroid field may look dense from the point of view of seeing one on a map of a star system, but when you're plonked right in the middle of one, in your little craft, it would be near impossible to accidentally hit an asteroid; you'd have to specifically aim to hit one, and even then it would require precision. If you near an asteroid, it would appear as a single object in space, not the huddle of rocks we see in Star Trek, and Star Wars.
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Voyager2004
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| Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:00 pm |
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It's all a matter of perspective. If you want to give the audience the illusion of an extremely dense asteroid field, then you're going to huddle them together. I'm sure you're probably right, but who's to say that asteroid fields that we can't observe don't look like that? But it's the illusion that Trek was creating.
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iconoclast
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| Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:59 pm |
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They could depict the ring field around a planet*; why must they make such an obvious error in favour of goodlooking visuals?
(*) The new film "Zathura" depicts -- quite correctly, and beautifully too -- the Ring Field around a planet. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406375/
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Voyager2004
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| Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:40 am |
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As you said..."good looking visuals."
But as I said before, who's to say it's an error? I'm sure there are many many more asteroid fields out in space that we cannot/have not observed that may, or may not, resemble those shown on Star Trek.
But it's just for "good looking visuals."
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Founder
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| Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:44 pm |
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They got it wrong? Prove it. Show me every asteroid field in the universe.
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Captain.Dan V2
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| Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:59 pm |
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| Founder wrote: | | They got it wrong? Prove it. Show me every asteroid field in the universe. |
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Voyager2004
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| Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:39 pm |
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| Founder wrote: | | They got it wrong? Prove it. Show me every asteroid field in the universe. |
Exactly. Thank you.
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Scapegoat Bob
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| Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:04 pm Re: Asteroids look wrong in Star Trek |
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| iconoclast wrote: | Even the new BBC satire "hyperdrive" has got it right!
The asteroid field may look dense from the point of view of seeing one on a map of a star system, but when you're plonked right in the middle of one, in your little craft, it would be near impossible to accidentally hit an asteroid; you'd have to specifically aim to hit one, and even then it would require precision. If you near an asteroid, it would appear as a single object in space, not the huddle of rocks we see in Star Trek, and Star Wars. |
you know it's not real, right? this star trek?
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