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For anyone that didn’t know, this is essentially the premise of the movie Gravity.
by headmelted 5y ago
For anyone that didn’t know, this is essentially the premise of the movie Gravity.
- mLuby 5y agoGravity strikes a good balance between realism and getting the point across to orbital-mechanics-unsavvy audiences.
- thatswrong0 5y agoI mean, it definitely showed how fast and destructive space debris can be. But I wouldn't say it really achieved a significant amount realism.
- mLuby 5y agoand that the debris is a cloud, and that it comes around again (which is very non-intuitive for us—explosions and shrapnel generally don't hit from the same direction more than once)