True, I wouldn't use this film as a science lesson, but let me address some points.
"Silent Mode" wasn't in regard to the sound but the heat and energy of the ship's running. The term was just a throwback to the old earth term for submaries.
Sound in space? Good point, but it's not the first excellent space opera to overlook that for dramatic reasons.
The source of light in the ice belt and later planet Bob could be a problem. However, you probably can assume that they are somewhere reasonably close to a sun. Then, when the planet gets created they move it a little bit closer so the average temperature is above freezing.
They did postulate that gravity generators had been invented which gave a "down" in space when on or near a ship. Between that and simple use of camera angles nothing seemed too unreasonable to me.
I thought the bat people were great. They looked and fought cool. Plus, the history and mystery of the race was thought proviking. Why were they so willing to give up their lives for the humans? Why did they live on a planet with ruined buildings?
To speculate about the drej: Maybe they needed spaceships because a certain particular grouping (possibly dynamic) of energy made up a conciousness (similar to known life forms and carbon based molecules). Maybe they needed ships so they didn't bleed away when they flew (kinda like chopping off you arm and sticking it in the gas tank to take a trip). Maybe an energy overload upset the pattern if hit in a certain place. (they did regenerate sometimes if the shot wasn't a direct hit) That might be similar to putting a human in a food processor. Then the energy formation becomes unstable and they explode. The idea itself isn't earth shattering, but they did a decent exposition of it.
I thought this movie was great. Here's some reasons.
Actual SCIENCE fiction. Hydrogen plants that were lighter than air, using an ice field to provide water to a new planet.
Varied Alien Life. So many movies have boring humaniod aliens, but AE had pure energy life forms, koosh type things they ate, interesting male-female pairs (the two crew members from the ship), and the cool ass bat people.
Realism. It was refreshing to see a Sci-Fi that didn't glaze over things like breathing in space, and acceleration (well, mostly)
Music. Apparently I'm in the target audience who loves Sci-Fi, Modern Rock, and is 23
Plot. Although somewhat predictable, the plot did have cool twists to keep things interesting.
Fun. Plus, I found it overall fun to watch and visually pleasing.
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- "Silent Mode" wasn't in regard to the sound but the heat and energy of the ship's running. The term was just a throwback to the old earth term for submaries.
- Sound in space? Good point, but it's not the first excellent space opera to overlook that for dramatic reasons.
- The source of light in the ice belt and later planet Bob could be a problem. However, you probably can assume that they are somewhere reasonably close to a sun. Then, when the planet gets created they move it a little bit closer so the average temperature is above freezing.
- They did postulate that gravity generators had been invented which gave a "down" in space when on or near a ship. Between that and simple use of camera angles nothing seemed too unreasonable to me.
- I thought the bat people were great. They looked and fought cool. Plus, the history and mystery of the race was thought proviking. Why were they so willing to give up their lives for the humans? Why did they live on a planet with ruined buildings?
To speculate about the drej:Maybe they needed spaceships because a certain particular grouping (possibly dynamic) of energy made up a conciousness (similar to known life forms and carbon based molecules). Maybe they needed ships so they didn't bleed away when they flew (kinda like chopping off you arm and sticking it in the gas tank to take a trip).
Maybe an energy overload upset the pattern if hit in a certain place. (they did regenerate sometimes if the shot wasn't a direct hit) That might be similar to putting a human in a food processor. Then the energy formation becomes unstable and they explode.
The idea itself isn't earth shattering, but they did a decent exposition of it.
- Actual SCIENCE fiction. Hydrogen plants that were lighter than air, using an ice field to provide water to a new planet.
- Varied Alien Life. So many movies have boring humaniod aliens, but AE had pure energy life forms, koosh type things they ate, interesting male-female pairs (the two crew members from the ship), and the cool ass bat people.
- Realism. It was refreshing to see a Sci-Fi that didn't glaze over things like breathing in space, and acceleration (well, mostly)
- Music. Apparently I'm in the target audience who loves Sci-Fi, Modern Rock, and is 23
- Plot. Although somewhat predictable, the plot did have cool twists to keep things interesting.
- Fun. Plus, I found it overall fun to watch and visually pleasing.
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First off, sound frequency is the frequency of vibration in a medium. Examples are voice in air and sonar in water.
Electromagnetic Frequency is the frequency of the EM wave. Examples are UV (suntan), Infrared (remote control), regular light, AM, and FM.
they are totally different!