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Wow! So many Hollywood cliches and formulas and scientific nonsense!

posted 15 years ago by martytamu27
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wow its so bad its almost watchable as one of those moives you laugh at them all, not actually watch teh plot and can buy into it.

the old school guys who doesnt play by the book or "not a team player"
but yet they have to call on him 30 years later cause no one can figure out his archaic computer code or something?

a test pilot taking it to the edge and his partner punching h im for it??
it was hokey, but that is the definition of a test pilot..especially in that age...to test the limits of aircraft...and especially something highly experimental and ground breaking and in those days of lax safety regulations, compared to today.

and the countless unbelievable leaps of logic made...i know its a movie, but to be engaging and watchable it cant be so distracting...when u make that big of jump its just hollywood nonsense...like armageddon or pearl harbor or indy day or 2012 or........eh..snore

[–] ChakatBlackstar 15 years ago

the old school guys who doesnt play by the book or "not a team player"
but yet they have to call on him 30 years later cause no one can figure out his archaic computer code or something?

Well...the computer part can easily be true. There's currently no complete blueprint of the Apollo rockets, or rather none that's accessible. The only complete copy is so old there's no program in resistance that can read the data. You'd have to reinvent the wheel so to speak to access them. Depending on the time table you might not have time to do that so you'd need to call up someone who actually worked on it.

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[–] chris3-4 14 years ago

they used pascal and machine language back then... ever hear of hollerith cards? that's why they needed the ripe stuff. hell i think i saw vacuum tubes, discreet transistors, mag-tape drives, etc. what kids even know what that is today?