"Tom Sr." wrote:
>
> On Jan 31, 7:09 am, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(B1ackwater) wrote:
> > Oh, and why are most sci-fi spaceships needle-shaped,
> > kind of like stretched-out Concorde jetliners or big
> > TV towers covered with pods ?
>
> You mean, like our *real* spaceships are now?
>
> Because they travel through atmosphere as well as in space. Thus the
> early SF films and television into 50s and 60s were given shapes to
> allow them to travel through both.
>
> The idea of a vessel that travel ONLY in space did not start making it
> into films until the late 1960s. The original STAR TREK and 2001: A
> SPACE ODYSSEY both had ships that showed examples of this concept.
>
Our real satellites don't look like the Concorde.
> > That's the WORST possible
> > shape for a spacecraft. They should all look like
> > 'death stars', round balls, instead. Solves all kinds
> > of torque, vibration and differential acceleration
> > problems.
>
> You never watched BABLYON 5, did you?
>
I saw the series on DVD.
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