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In Praise of the Sci-fi Corridor

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-there-is-half-the-fun dept.

brumgrunt writes "Technically a corridor in a science-fiction movie should just be a means of getting from one big expensive set to the next, and yet Den Of Geek writes lovingly of the detailed conduits in films such as Alien, Outland, Solaris and even this year's Moon by Duncan Jones."

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  1. Re:Sci-Fi by jbeaupre · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have you seen the ISS? The future is looking pretty organized. http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/177653main_UTBI1.jpg

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  2. Re:How to do a much shorter article next time by hal2814 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know. I thought the Jetsons had a pretty long run.

  3. Re:Star Wars Gets "More Later"? Really? by cpt+kangarooski · · Score: 2, Informative

    In ST:TOS, the Enterprise would often be "three weeks out" from the starbase of the week. It had a crew of about 1,000.

    No, it was usually somewhat more than 400, IIRC.

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  4. Re:How to do a much shorter article next time by Noren · · Score: 2, Informative

    I must quibble- although Heinlein's short story "The Roads Must Roll"(1940) did not specify a setting date in its text, it was set in the same continuity in and occured prior to "The Man who Sold the Moon"(1949), which was set in the then-future of 1978. So, the strike (and associated terrorist activity) was to have been in the then-future 1960s or 1970s, not in 2050.