How the HELL could they run out of oxygen within 16 hours, at one point ?
The bomb section of the ship alone is the size of 5 shopping malls. And has oxygen.
And in my uneducated opinion, that tiny greenhouse could never produce enough oxygen to facilitate all crew.
Dont get me wrong I LOOOOVE the movie.
I'm not sure, but I think there was quite a lot of "time compression" (a story telling technique) in the movie. Because it appeared that within merely those same 24 hours (or whatever it was), the ship/bomb covered the remaining 36 million miles to the Sun, after they had spent more than 16 months to complete the first 55 million miles.
(Near the beginning of the movie it is mentioned that they're 55 million miles away from Earth, and a bit later it's mentioned that they're at a distance of 36 million miles from the Sun; which sounds factually accurate, because during a year's Earth orbit the distance between Earth's surface and the Sun's surface varies between 91 million miles and 93 million miles, roughly speaking.)
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They could, of course, had saved the garden by opening a window, so that the fire went out.
shareGuess you missed the point when the vacuum of space ripped a huge solid steel door off its hinges. Chances are opening a "Window" that room would of just sucked every single plant in it out into space.
Thats also IF they had a door connected to that room that could open into space. Generally on a space shuttle only one door opens to outside the ship.
The better argument would be why the hell a water sprinkler system was on a space station. I doubt they would do something as stupid as that. Really think they would of had a system setup to release a gas into the room that would cancel out the oxygen inside, which in tern would kill the fire. Or just a system setup that could filter out the oxygen to that room itself, in case such a situation would happen. But the plot said they needed the plants killed so they just did whatever.
Guess you missed the point when the vacuum of space ripped a huge solid steel door off its hinges. Chances are opening a "Window" that room would of just sucked every single plant in it out into space.
Couldn't they just have drained the O2? Surely the engineers must have taken such an event into account when constructing the ship, so that one could control the oxygen flow in separate chambers.
This sentence has nothing to do with what I just have written above.
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There's a lot of time between the docking to Icarus 1 when Pinbacker gets on board, and them finding out he is on board - months or at least weeks of an extra breather on board. All that time, they did not know that.
It's nonsense. They have water, and power. All they had to do was electrolyze it. Of course the real problem in space missions is not the "lack of oxygen" but excess of carbon dioxide which is toxic to humans in higher quantities.
shareIf i remember correctly, in the Apollo 13 mission, the crew came up with an idea to minimize the CO2 content in their spaceship. I cant rememeber exactly how but they did it. Icarus is a much more advanced ship too, so there would be no way they could run out of O2. If one fails and they would surely have an alternative.
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