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Re: [OM] IMG: Soyuz spacecraft

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Soyuz spacecraft
From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:02:25 -0500
Ah, but it was Sandra Bollox.
On Apr 20, 2014 11:57 AM, "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I couldn't.  If I'm watching a film and the basis of it is bollox I will
> watch no longer.
>
> It was bad enough to watch Tom Cruise in Top Gun talking on the radio with
> his mask hanging away from his face, or to listen to the delectable lady
> wondering at the fantastic "negative g dive", but I couldn't watch that
> film in which some supposed pilot is doing impossible things with a B747.
>
> Mind you, my students used to watch Top Gun or Reach for the Sky any time
> the weather was bad, so I started to get used to the bollox in the former.
>  And my daughter-in-law knows every bit of the dialogue of the former, so
> it's normally counter-productive (and churlish) to whinge about the
> impossibility of this or that manoeuvre.
>
> Chris
>
> On 20 Apr 14, at 17:45, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>     I saw the movie "Gravity" last week and got to see the inards of
> the Soyuz capsule for the first time.  Interesting, especially the final
> moment of landing , and it has withstood the test of time.
> >
> > We watched it Friday night.
> >
> > Nice scenery. :)
> >
> > As long as you park your brain cells that govern knowledge of orbits
> > it's an enjoyable movie.
>
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