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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by simonh on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:50PM (#14454948)
Maybe, but I've got hundreds of hours of KSP under my belt and thought Gravity was fantastic. I'm a proud science and gamer geek, but feel that the urge to nit pick is the scourge of the geek community. I'll happily engage in a conversation about the compromises made in Gravity, it none of them spoiled the movie for me and I'm very glad it exists. If it makes movie goers more interested in Space and feel positively about space research and exploration, that's a wonderful thing.
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by milcron on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:57PM (#14454994)
I think they were saying that Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian and The Expanse are all good examples.
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by ucarion on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:07PM (#14455068)
I'm confused about this too. The Martian (at least the book) has good science throughout. But in Gravity, the space shrapnel is moving much faster than the ISS, yet has the same orbit as it. I don't think that's possible, from what KSP has taught me.
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by simonh on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @07:25PM (#14456710)
I don't think it has the same orbit, I think it has a crossing orbit inclined relative to that of the space station. Imagine a belt of debris, much like the rings of Saturn, with the ISS on an orbit that passes through the ring twice on each orbit, on opposite sides of the planet.
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by skybrian on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:30PM (#14455245)
It's all a matter of degree. The Martian also has creative decisions that the author semi-apologizes for because they made the plot work. (Such the idea that a windstorm on Mars could blow anything over.)
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by logfromblammo on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @06:07PM (#14456312)
...relative to the usual "not even wrong" depictions that Hollywood screenwriters can crank out after barely passing high school physics.
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Re:Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @06:45PM (#14456515)
Yes, that's exactly what I meant.
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