Re: Movies

>Bob DeAngelis wrote:
>
>> <delurk!!>
>>
>> Bob Hofrichter
>>	  said
>>
>> > Outland (with Sean Connery as a US Marshal in space)
>>
>> well said that man!!!!
>>	    Superb film.. "high noon" in space. Probably the most
undersold and
>> under rated film Connery ever made.. Very believable sci fi!!!
>>
>>
>
>Except for the way people DO NOT explode in a vacuum, it is not bad. 
What
>really happens is that you get all puffy and eventually expire from
lack of
>oxygen.
>Apparently, trained monkeys can survive up to a minute of hard vacuum
with no
>ill effects (after saturating the body by breathing pure oxygen.  The
>human body
>is mostly made of incompressible water, and after getting all bloaty
feeling,
>the skin exerts enough pressure to keep the blood from boiling.
>
>This is why that scene in 2001 is so awesome when when Dave transits
from the
>pod to the emergency airlock without his helmet.  The sound effects for
that
>scene were also amazing.

"Open the pod bay doors, Hal......Hal, open the pod bay doors!"
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that .... you've been out drinking and
forgotten your key again, haven' t you...?"

;-)

Jon (GZG)