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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. I've always said it by Rogerborg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flash Gordon is indeed far superior to A New Hope [ducks, covers]

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  2. Re:Star Wars Gets "More Later"? Really? by dissy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    the more mass the ship has, the bigger the engines and the more fuel it needs

    In space? Really?

    Yes really.

    Mass != Weight

    In fact, current understanding states that mass is what causes gravity. The more mass, the more gravity.

    The sun is massive, and has a lot of gravitational pull, for example.

    Just because you move yourself far enough away from another massive object to influence you via gravity (or to NOT influence you in this case), does not mean you magically lose mass all over the place.