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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 17637 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 11:45 am Post subject: Moonfall (2022) |
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I haven't seen Moonfall yet, but it bombed at the box office, so I'll try not to expect too much.
I was a bit dismayed when I read that the premise includes the idea that the Moon contains a vast artifical environment and mechanisms that seeded the Earth with life eons ago after intelligent life was wipe out, millions of years earlier.
Damn, that's a key element of my unpublished novel Sail the Sea of Stars, which I've posted about 2/3 of here on All Sci-Fi.
I first wrote it in the earily 1980s, and I need to rewrite the last part, which is why I haven't posted all of it here, yet.
I'm happy to report, however, that the nature of the Moon is just a small part of a much more complex plot element which is both startling and original.
Anyway, here a video about Moonfall.
_____ The Origin Of Solar System Scene Moonfall
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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Pow Galactic Ambassador

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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Listverse: Director Roland Emmerich and his team used planetary sciences simulators to depict the moon careening towards the Earth would realistically look like.
From this they learned that the moon would not simply just cut a straight path for us, but would get into an elliptical orbit around the Earth that would continuously become smaller and smaller. |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Pow wrote: | From this they learned that the moon would not simply just cut a straight path for us, but would get into an elliptical orbit around the Earth that would continuously become smaller and smaller. |
They needed planetary sciences simulators do find that out?
Duh! The Moon travels 2,288 miles per hour, and the only way to get it to fall straight down towards the Earth would be to stop it cold.
If it slowed just a little, it would merely drop into a new, lower elliptical orbit and be closer to the earth at perigee — at which point it would actually speed up (which is what it does now, just less so).
Frankly, discussions about revolutions and rotations make my head spin!  _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958) |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)

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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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Pow wrote: | From this they learned that the moon would not simply just cut a straight path for us, but would get into an elliptical orbit around the Earth that would continuously become smaller and smaller. |
They needed planetary sciences simulators do find that out?
Duh! The Moon travels 2,288 miles per hour, and the only way to get it to fall straight down towards the Earth would be to stop it cold.
If it slowed just a little, it would merely drop into a new, lower elliptical orbit and be closer to the earth at perigee — at which point it would actually speed up (which is what it does now, just less so).
Frankly, discussions about revolutions and rotations make my head spin!  _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958) |
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