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Skywalker's Lightsaber to Actually Fly To Space
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:41 pm
by Mike DiCenso
More on that in the Space.com article here:
http://www.space.com/entertainment/cs_0 ... saber.html
I think this would be the first ever movie (regardless of genere) prop to fly into space.
-Mike
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:01 pm
by Cpl Kendall
I wonder what this costs.
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:25 pm
by Mr. Oragahn
Oh dear.
I guess the next step is to turn Mir station into a replica shop.
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:29 pm
by Mike DiCenso
Mir? You ment ISS, didn't you? Mir's now just burnt pieces of metal and plastic on the bottom of the Pacific ocean. ;-)
-Mike
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:57 pm
by Mr. Oragahn
Mike DiCenso wrote:Mir? You ment ISS, didn't you? Mir's now just burnt pieces of metal and plastic on the bottom of the Pacific ocean. ;-)
-Mike
I'm not up to date at all about what happens in orbit. I just don't give a damn. I probably heard about Mir one day and just thought, oh, well, more russian junk back on Earth, and forgot about it a few days later.
Space exploration must probably be one of the most acclaimed wastes of money and ressources on this planet.
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:36 am
by GStone
At least there's another reason to send the shuttle up, so it isn't for the prop only.
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:26 am
by Jedi Master Spock
Frankly, I think it's pretty cool... there may not be much of a point to it, but it's neat.
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:24 pm
by 2046
Mr. Oragahn wrote:Space exploration must probably be one of the most acclaimed wastes of money and ressources on this planet.
I find that statement somewhat confusing given the topic of the board. I mean I realize Star Trek and Star Wars are hardly realistic, but isn't a lot of the interest in space-based sci-fi the basic idea of man (et cetera) in space?
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:30 pm
by Mr. Oragahn
2046 wrote:Mr. Oragahn wrote:Space exploration must probably be one of the most acclaimed wastes of money and ressources on this planet.
I find that statement somewhat confusing given the topic of the board. I mean I realize Star Trek and Star Wars are hardly realistic, but isn't a lot of the interest in space-based sci-fi the basic idea of man (et cetera) in space?
Interesting, yes.
Useful, no.
We just need satellites and cams to monitor things on Earth and nearby space, and spread information, that's all.
Sending puppies in space and rovers on Mars... pointless. A mere distraction, off the real problems we actually know.