NOT PYNCHON: the estimable Michael Wood on COVENANT

[jesse gooch]

HaHaHa!
Yeah, hard to get around the silly science, but I don’t really go see science fiction movies expecting them to adhere to logic. Also, since Alien has always been a bit of a “slasher in space” thing, you’re always going to get the people making really idiotic decisions that no rational person would make. 


> On Jun 15, 2017, at 1:31 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
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> This is about that really stupid film that R. Scott foisted upon us recently? It was that or the Mummy last night, and I suspect I made the poorer choice. I can’t imagine being desperate enough to actually see the Mummy, so I can only speculate about the choice. After watching the numerous stupidities of the humans on board, I came to the conclusion that the group being sent to colonize some far off planet must have been selected in some future eugenics project to raise the level of intelligence of the species left behind.
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> Interstellar densities are around 10^6 molecules per cm^3. Try figuring out the pressure per square cm on that huge sail deployed at the speed the ship was going. Talk about drag!
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> <sigh>
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>> On Jun 15, 2017, at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> https://twitter.com/LRB/status/875295382401691649 <https://twitter.com/LRB/status/875295382401691649>
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