Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?  (Read 9886 times)

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Xavier1964

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #25 on: 6 Nov 2013, 02:20:26 »
I have also watched the space suspense movie Gravity in the past week. Also good. I still wonder if tears stick on your face when you cry in space, or if they would float dramatically toward the camera. I did confirm that when it's almost sunrise in the Sinai Peninsula, it's right about 8 pm in Illinois.

I generally cringe when movies come out that have NASA in them.  Only movie I've ever seen that was relatively accurate was Apollo 13.  Mind you, the NASA of today is nothing like the NASA of Apollo days.  At any rate, a coworker of mine said he went to see Gravity.  He thought it was good, but you had to "leave your orbital mechanics hat at the door".  I hate that!  :P

Max

a NASA movie? i went to the JPL today on a field trip. lolz xD

86maxsmart

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #26 on: 6 Nov 2013, 02:54:25 »
Xavier,

Ah, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.  Nearly all of the planetary probes that are built at JPL come to KSC (Kennedy Space Center) where I work.  The are put on top of rockets here at the Cape and launched.  All of the Mars probes and rovers were developed and built at JPL.

Cool stuff they do there.  :D

Max

Xavier1964

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #27 on: 6 Nov 2013, 03:26:28 »
Xavier,

Ah, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.  Nearly all of the planetary probes that are built at JPL come to KSC (Kennedy Space Center) where I work.  The are put on top of rockets here at the Cape and launched.  All of the Mars probes and rovers were developed and built at JPL.

Cool stuff they do there.  :D

Max

yep. I BOUGHT A MUG AT THE GIFT SHOP! xD lolz. a JPL mug that says "i love the smell of rocket fuel in the morning" xD

86maxsmart

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #28 on: 6 Nov 2013, 15:33:28 »
yep. I BOUGHT A MUG AT THE GIFT SHOP! xD lolz. a JPL mug that says "i love the smell of rocket fuel in the morning" xD

Lol.  :D  Love that, although some of the rocket fuels you definitly DO NOT want to smell.  If ur interested rocket propellants that fall into this category look up hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide on the wiki.

Max

Xavier1964

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #29 on: 7 Nov 2013, 00:11:40 »
yep. I BOUGHT A MUG AT THE GIFT SHOP! xD lolz. a JPL mug that says "i love the smell of rocket fuel in the morning" xD

Lol.  :D  Love that, although some of the rocket fuels you definitly DO NOT want to smell.  If ur interested rocket propellants that fall into this category look up hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide on the wiki.

Max

wow...just..LOLZ! xD

Olah0001

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #30 on: 8 Dec 2013, 02:27:02 »
I watched Thor

craftymatt13

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #31 on: 10 Dec 2013, 16:49:54 »
I have also watched the space suspense movie Gravity in the past week. Also good. I still wonder if tears stick on your face when you cry in space, or if they would float dramatically toward the camera. I did confirm that when it's almost sunrise in the Sinai Peninsula, it's right about 8 pm in Illinois.

I generally cringe when movies come out that have NASA in them.  Only movie I've ever seen that was relatively accurate was Apollo 13.  Mind you, the NASA of today is nothing like the NASA of Apollo days.  At any rate, a coworker of mine said he went to see Gravity.  He thought it was good, but you had to "leave your orbital mechanics hat at the door".  I hate that!  :P

Max

a NASA movie? i went to the JPL today on a field trip. lolz xD

I remember going on field trips to Marshall Space Flight Center and the Space and Rocket Museum here in Huntsville Al. I remember seeing a lot of test facilities and so forth. I got to touch Enterprise (big deal for a Star Trek and NASA fan) Of course, that was in the days when the shuttle was a plan in the works. Later, I used to go to the upper floor of the computer programming department in college look out and see Saturn V rockets,  the Enterprise, and testing towers (I think the towers are/were for vibration tolerance tests-they are huge on the skyline) and think that by 2020 we would be colonizing the moon in some way. oops-missed that be a century or so.

86maxsmart

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #32 on: 10 Dec 2013, 19:48:23 »
I've been to GSFC and JSC, but never to MSFC.  One movie I'd recommend if you're interested Crafty is Capricorn One.  I suggested this to JayJay in another forum post.  Although it is old, it involves a botched mission to Mars.  It has suspense, conspiracy, action, and some really cool helicopter scenes.  :D

Olah0001

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #33 on: 5 Jan 2014, 02:02:10 »
The Lone Ranger

HarryX11

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #34 on: 5 Jan 2014, 03:05:31 »
Grudge Match

deebles17

Re: Anyone watched any good movies while waiting for V6?
« Reply #35 on: 20 Feb 2014, 00:05:36 »
Duck Dynasty.