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Moonman
10-18-2013, 10:33 PM
unrealistic bullshit

Moonman
10-18-2013, 10:33 PM
:smug:

m0nde
10-18-2013, 11:11 PM
tell us how the physick were wrong

Moonman
10-18-2013, 11:20 PM
the Hubble and ISS are moving in different directions at different speeds, in different orbits at different heights from the surface of the Earth. So ... not possible.

Even if you were somehow miraculously able to make the journey from the Hubble to the ISS, the ISS would be traveling so fast relative to you, you'd die from impact.

This image points out their different angles of orbit:
http://kwc.org/blog/WindowsLiveWriter/NewYorkTimesonthedifficultyoffixingHubbl_8D6A/hubble.graphic.nyt5.jpg

Also,
The ISS is moving at 7.71 km/s
The Hubble is moving at 7.5 km/s

So, even if you somehow had a perfect trajectory towards the ISS,
given their varying directions of travel, you'd end up hitting the ISS at something like 200-1000 meters per second. You'd die. Plain and simple. There would be nothing left of you.

There's debate over whether a Kessler effect (chain reaction of debris destroying satellites) is even possible, but for the sake of fiction, I'll buy it. However, I can't buy George Clooney pointing and saying "Look, it's the ISS in plain sight, let's fly over to it" and then actually performing that feat and expecting the audience to have no problem with it. Everything up until flying to the ISS was believable and genuinely good cinema.

steveyos YOLO
10-18-2013, 11:21 PM
I would've never gone to see a movie with my grandparents, but i would've never lived with them either

Tahiti Joe
10-18-2013, 11:23 PM
PD probably smells like shit all the time.

Moonman
10-18-2013, 11:23 PM
Also, Sandra Bullock flying around in space with a fire extinguisher is Looney Tunes grade material

Moonman
10-18-2013, 11:24 PM
I would've never gone to see a movie with my grandparents, but i would've never lived with them either
i'm going to cut off your skin and wear it

Poopalew
10-18-2013, 11:25 PM
Also, Sandra Bullock flying around in space with a fire extinguisher is Looney Tunes grade material

That betty is an art form.

steveyos YOLO
10-18-2013, 11:34 PM
i'm going to cut off your skin and wear it

Bring it little fella

Moonman
10-18-2013, 11:43 PM
i'm cummin babe ;)

steveyos YOLO
10-19-2013, 12:24 AM
Apologize to lisa for being a creepy psychopath

Moonman
10-19-2013, 01:03 AM
only if she apologizes to me for being a heartless bitch

rootbeer
10-19-2013, 09:05 AM
everyone knows the earth is hollow and full of evil nazi aliens

Camoron
10-19-2013, 09:23 AM
You're an retard