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Just watched I.S.S. movie, sorry, if this subject is off-topic of astrophotography. I just wanted to share my opinion and to hear yours as to this new movie. My five-cents: 1. Technically movie is not so bad, the computer simulation looks ok, worse than in the Gravity or the Call (but the Russian movie the Call was made in space (actually), the first and unique movie-just watch it! 2. The panoramic views of nuke blasts and fire storms are realistic, really scary, particularly long lasting fires, for God sake, it should be in the movie only. 3. Labeling in the Russian equipment look ok, at least nothing stupid as many Holliwood’s movie like НЖУЬВБЛЫУЮ (sensless cyrrylic letters), but in the last scene the Russian terminal shows similar abracadabra (probably, radiation poisoned general tried to type by himself). 4. Physological types look realistic, Russian cosmonavts look like human being but not terminators or savages (but still drink vodka in stress situation), even killing their American collegues by military command order is a very hard personal task for them. Remember-as the US as well as Russian cosmonavts are highly trained military officers that have to follow the orders of their military command (no questions asked). 5. Attention-spoiler!!! Fighting of military forces would lead to guaranteed mutual destruction-this idea have to remember all political leaders around the world (particularly in our unsafe time). The only way for the mankind to survive -the cooperation and mutual respect. Let open space for the real science but not for the arm race. 6. American astronauts are also realistic. Of course, standard Hollywood stamp are there: black lesbian scientist (strange that she is not HIV positive and a blind-for more political correstness), a physco space engineer, destroying air supply system, superhuman captain, surviving Space Arm slap and hanging for hours without air in the space etc. In general, I like the movie, good graphics, realistic scenario, good humanistic ideas-make love not war. Contra: 1. The I.S.S., probably, is a priority target in the WWIII as well as the network of military and even civil satellites (there is no real civil space objects, they all double purpose objects), so these poor people would die first nuked by both American and Russian missiles. 2. Emergency landing at the time of WWIII is a guaranteed suicide. Your opinion, friends! |
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Speaking of the I.S.S., and of everything from Earth which went into orbit (around Earth). How large would be the diameter of the compressed ball made of all the artificial satellites, space stations, manned capsules, boosters, geostationary satellites, and also all the large and small particles of space junk since the launch of Sputnik 1 on the fourth of october 1957? 100 meters? 500 meters? 1 kilometer? Many kilometers? By the way, see also the episode Conflict in Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's U.F.O. TV series from the very early seventies. Already the problem of disturbing space junk was mentioned in that episode, because the aliens used spent boosters such as the S-IVB stages from the Apollo program as "hiding places" to avoid the detection of their interplanetary (or interstellar?) saucers by the Space Intruder Detector (S.I.D.; the orbital computer from SHADO with its typical English way of speaking). |
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| Hard to say but there us statistics on the numbers of space objects https://sdup.esoc.esa.int/discosweb/statistics/ |
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Good heavens! It's a rather heavy situation up there! Total mass of all space objects in Earth orbit More than 11500 tonnes |
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| This is why the movie Gravity is realistic, just start chain reaction and space garbage would destroy I.S.S. |
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| 11500 tonnes is nothing. Try sailing across the pacific. I bet you don’t get hit by some of the WAY WAY more than 11500 tons of cargo. |
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| Very true…. But how you would explain ship collisions, plenty space there…🤓 |
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A ball shaped mass of metal and a lot of solar panels from all the artificial satellites, space stations, and spent boosters which went into orbit, 11500 tonnes, what would be the diameter of such a ball? Perhaps large enough to see its globular shape if it (that ball) would hover around us in LEO (Low Earth Orbit). Alas, today there is no such thing as the ECHO 1 balloon satellite. Must have been quite a sight to see the minus (how much?) magnitude of the sun's reflection on the globe shaped mirrorlike mylar film! |
