Prometheus

[irishpat183]

People who know about science are even tougher. I absolutely love everything about space and the universe and if I would have heard that I would have walked out. The nearest star to us is Proxima Centauri and is 4.2 light years away. Plus if it was only .5 billion miles that would not even all the way to Jupiter (Jupiter is 642 million miles from Earth on average) and anyway they would not need the cryo containers..... as it would really only take about 5-10 years with present day ion propoulsion technology. God this just gets worse and worse....
Its one thing to read a Jules Verne novel and the Victorian era public be scientifically illiterate about the universe, but its another for the public to well versed in present day scientific knowledge and sit through that. Sci-fi has to do better.

Point of minutae: Neil Degrasse Tyson ripped James Cameron for the sky in "Titanic" because it wasn't the correct sky for the Artic at the time of the year. Cameron subsequently replaced it with the correct sky in the recent re-release.

Well I feel like a moron........LOL

I would not have caught that. I was just there for entertainment. Not a huge Sci-fi guy, but I like aliens, dismemberment, and shooting things. So I took a shot. Not to mention, I thought it might be a cool movie, visually, to see in a theater (we saw it 3d)

 

[BestBIrish47]

Cackalacky, great stuff! However, I feel we have been instructed differently on the distance. Regardless our points are the same and, for that , I appreciate your feedback.

For non Sci-fi enthusiasts, it would be like watching a football movie where the team is on the opponents 20 yard line. Then, they throw a 80 yard TD pass for the win.

The answer to “how far is Jupiter from Earth” can have a different answer every day of the year. The planets both travel in their elliptical orbits getting closer then farther apart. When Earth and Jupiter are at their closest to each other they are 628,743,036 million km apart. At their most distant from each other they are 928,081,020 million km apart. In astronomical units the distance varies from 4.2 AU to 6.2 AU.

628743036 km = 390682809.890 mi
928081020 km = 576682809.890 mi

Read more: How Far is Jupiter from Earth

 

[Cackalacky]

Well I feel like a moron........LOL

I would not have caught that. I was just there for entertainment. Not a huge Sci-fi guy, but I like aliens, dismemberment, and shooting things. So I took a shot. Not to mention, I thought it might be a cool movie, visually, to see in a theater (we saw it 3d)

Me too, but I am a science guy through and through and the cool things about old sci-fi (books and movies) was that they actually took the time to come up with things to deal with physical problems, for example "the intertial dampers" for Star Trek. If a ship busted into light speed as they do in Star Trek, the intertia alone would disentigrate the ship before it even got three feet. Rodenberry "invented" the "intertial dampers" to deal with this "issue."

Hollywood these days just dont even try...

OK so everyone now knows a I am a nerd........

"Han Shot First"

 

[Rhode Irish]

I've never watched a sci-fi movie on purpose, and certainly don't plan to start with this one. Not sure I get the draw for people.

 

[Cackalacky]

Cackalacky, great stuff! However, I feel we have been instructed differently on the distance. Regardless our points are the same and, for that , I appreciate your feedback.

For non Sci-fi enthusiasts, it would be like watching a football movie where the team is on the opponents 20 yard line. Then, they throw a 80 yard TD pass for the win.

The answer to “how far is Jupiter from Earth” can have a different answer every day of the year. The planets both travel in their elliptical orbits getting closer then farther apart. When Earth and Jupiter are at their closest to each other they are 628,743,036 million km apart. At their most distant from each other they are 928,081,020 million km apart. In astronomical units the distance varies from 4.2 AU to 6.2 AU.

628743036 km = 390682809.890 mi
928081020 km = 576682809.890 mi

Read more: How Far is Jupiter from Earth

Yes you are correct. I did not take into account them being on opposite sides of the Sun and I mistakenly typed miles and not km. Corrections appreciated.

 

[Cackalacky]

I've never watched a sci-fi movie on purpose, and certainly don't plan to start with this one. Not sure I get the draw for people.

For me... this^

and this

Exoplanet Orbit Database | Exoplanet Data Explorer

 

[irishpat183]

For me... this^

and this

Exoplanet Orbit Database | Exoplanet Data Explorer

Awesome. Great quote.

 

[Cackalacky]

Useless knowledge: Voyager 1 is now about 11 billion miles from Earth and has reached the edge of our solar system where the Sun's gravitaitonal influence ceases. It has been traveling for only 35 years.

 

[BGIF]

Me too, but I am a science guy through and through and the cool things about old sci-fi (books and movies) was that they actually took the time to come up with things to deal with physical problems, for example "the intertial dampers" for Star Trek. If a ship busted into light speed as they do in Star Trek, the intertia alone would disentigrate the ship before it even got three feet. Rodenberry "invented" the "intertial dampers" to deal with this "issue."

Hollywood these days just dont even try...

OK so everyone now knows a I am a nerd........

"Han Shot First"

Dr. Cooper, I presume ...

 

[Cackalacky]

Dr. Cooper, I presume ...

Shhh....I'm trying to otherwise hide my more than obvious intellectual talents from people. In otherwords, I am in what common people would call a "disguise."