http://clipmarks.com/clipper/kelvin273/date/2008/5/9/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/kelvin273/date/2008/5/9/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F5DFFADE-9A54-4517-B54D-0BFCBCE61C9F/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/nohobot/">nohobot</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> "2001: A Space Odyssey" is my all-time favorite film, so I included almost all of the information from that section. The others on the list are also interesting, though, of course. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn13864-five-science-fiction-movies-that-get-the-science-right.html?feedId=online-news_rss20" title="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn13864-five-science-fiction-movies-that-get-the-science-right.html?feedId=online-news_rss20">www.newscientist.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><B><A target="ns" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/"><I>2001: A Space Odyssey</I></A> (1968)</B></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>"Open the pod-bay doors, HAL."</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Despite being made before the first moon landing, Stanley Kubrick and <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19626321.800-arthur-c-clarke-still-looking-at-the-stars.html">Arthur C Clarke</A>'s masterpiece is a strikingly realistic depiction of space travel.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Among the film's neater details:</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI>All scenes in outer space are silent – sound does not travel in a vacuum</LI></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI>The stars do not move past the ship – for there to be a visible motion of the star field, the ship would have to be travelling at close to the speed of light</LI></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI>The crew eat <XREF _moz-userdefined="" refid="mg17323352.800">paste-like food</XREF> and only drink liquids through straws.</LI></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Additionally, crew members are shown coping with the <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13818693.700-stop-the-rocket-i-want-to-get-off-it-sounded-glamorousthe-ultimate-high-but-the-stark-reality-of-life-as-an-astronaut-is-becomingincreasingly-evident-to-psychologists-in-the-runup-to-a-mission-to-mars.html">boredom and routine</A> of a long, straightforward trek across empty space.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Newtonian physics is strictly obeyed in the behaviour of the ship and little "pods" that the astronauts use to travel outside it. Trouble only starts when a carefully-aligned radio transmitter, the crew's lifeline to Earth, begins to drift out of position.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn13864-five-science-fiction-movies-that-get-the-science-right.html?feedId=online-news_rss20Fri, 09 May 2008 22:24:50 GMT