Subj : Re: Serenity: My Thoughtful Review
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 19:06:04

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Rick Savoia wrote:

> Oh, and on other nitpick:  why do SciFi films always forget the 
> concept of 'z' orientation?

"He's highly intelligent, but inexperienced. This pattern indicates two-
dimensional thinking." --Spock 
 
> Ok,so there's a line of 'something' in between you and your target.
> Go up and around it.
 
I don't fault them for that, the "line" is not the Maginot line, which 
was circumvented just as you say. The "line" was a group of ships loosely 
parked in the same area, probably a Lagrange point which makes it easy to 
maintain that orbit, but if they saw you going up, the "line" would move. 
IF you are defending a gravity well you have to slow down to approach and 
to re-enter the atmo... unless you go around the opposite side of the 
planet from them and never stray, they'll spot you, since you are on 
approach, there is no way to put the planet between you and them, 
therefore a belt of ships is a perfect beachhead, in our solar system the 
best lines of defense would be the asteroid belt, kupier belt, and Oort 
Cloud... Even with a Z-axis, they'll see you, and they have cover...

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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