in the MOVIE Lost in Space...

[fatal291]

Lol i know what u guys are thinking, first off its a movie.. then of all movies Lost in Space. My question was when they went through the Sun, they became "frozen" or motionless. Why was that? Would this happen if we were ever able to go into the actual core of the Sun? I am hoping that segment was not ALL just random SciFi. Some of them were in mid air, but frozen. Why is this?

 

[fatal291]

Well assuming they never went faster than the speed of light would it be possible?

 

[bdewoody]

This needs to go to Sci-Fi. Nothing in that movie was based on real science. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">Bob DeWoody</font></em> </div>

 

[weeman]

Traveling through the Sun had nothing to do with it. I believe they traveled at light speed or they were traveling in hyperspace. <br /><br />As you approach the speed of light, or C in science terms, time slows. So, if you actually reach the speed of light, C, then time should essentially stop. This is my best guess for what was being portrayed in the movie.<br /><br />Although who knows for absolute sure what actually happens to a ship and its travelers when they reach the speed of C. If time did indeed stop like this, and everything froze in place, then Will Robinson and the rest of his family would have been doomed to travel at the speed of light forever.<br /><br />If time stops at C, then there would be no time for anybody's brain to produce a thought process to power down the engines. In addition, with no time ticking, the computer that controls the engines would not be able to process any information and relay the message to the engines. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Gimme an "S" <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[SpeedFreek]

Yes, and if I were going to be really nit-picky I would say that it would be theoretically <b> impossible </b> for a camera to film the effect of time-dilation. If the camera were moving with the spacecraft, the time would dilate for the camera too, so everything would seem normal to the camera right up to the point it would allegedly stop at the speed of light (and possibly never start again).<br /><br />But as we all know, you can't accelerate to the speed of light anyway. You might theoretically get close, but there would always be time passing normally for you, just less of it! It would also seem normal that the journey only took a short time, as the distance to the destination would have shrunk to the distance defined by the Lorentz transformation, which is the same equation that we derive time-dilation from. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000">_______________________________________________<br /></font><font size="2"><em>SpeedFreek</em></font> </p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

At the time that particular turkey of a movie was made, that particular special effect was new and exciting and was used in several movies.<br /><br />Then it became old, passe, and dated. I suppose the effect may still be used by elderly nostalgic film producers trying for some old timey retro feel.<br /><br />The technique is done by simply having a row of still frame cameras (as many as your special effects budget will allow) all fire at the same time, and then you sequentially project each image.<br /><br />Kind of eye catching, and due to the Pilfrich effect (think I spelled it right) it almost makes it look 3D.<br /><br />If that scene in LIS was meant to portray some actual physical effect of some scientifical phenomena, it would be the only such scene in the movie and TV series combined.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[docm]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Kind of eye catching, and due to the Pilfrich effect (think I spelled it right)<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote>It's the <b><font color="yellow">Pulfrich</font></b>illusion, which yields a perceived 3D "depth". <br /><br />The Pulfrich illusion is caused by the different perception of light when the light levels transmitted to each eye are different, such as when one is covered by a neutral density filter. <br /><br />When this is done perception by the filtered eye is slightly slower. As a result a moving object is perceived to be in a different position by the filtered eye, which results in the 3D illusion.<br /><br />It can also appear to patients suffering from unilateral cataracts, MS or optic neuritis but mainly used as a pseudo-3D effect. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[qso1]

Much of what makes it into sci fi movies is hardly based on real science, especially science dealing with future subjects. Theoretically, the solar core is so hot that known materials would be vaporized well before reaching the center.<br /><br />This is an area where the suns nuclear fusion process takes place and unlike hydrogen bombs, is ongoing. Even that is still largely theoretical. The whole reason for doing stuff like sending the hapless crew to the solar center is the same as showing the Jupiter 1 launch with SRB plumes, then the ship becomes the hyperdriven Jupiter 2...it makes for cool Computer Graphics Imagery (CGI). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[weeman]

Yes, the effect looked good in Lost in Space.<br /><br />But then came The Matrix <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Techies: We do it in the dark. </font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>"Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.</strong><strong>" -Albert Einstein </strong></font></p> </div>

 

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