Video Wednesdays: Starring George and Sandra Kerman

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<p>Today’s video comes to us from Youtube user, <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRiverStudio">TheRiverStudio</a></strong>. Many of you have compared/contrasted <strong><em>KSP</em></strong> with the recently-released film <strong>Gravity</strong>. Well, <strong>TheRiverStudio</strong> has taken that to another level. Never have the film’s stars looked so good.</p>

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[scootersoup]

That was hilarious, in a horrible, horrible way.

[astropapi1]

Can't believe I still haven't watched that movie.

[wulf899]

Sweet mother of god... I never saw that trailer. It looks horrifying.

[Sochin]

Now prepare yourselves for the 'we want female kerbals' threads!

[Dart980]

Can't believe I still haven't watched that movie.

Watch it. NOW!!!

[lajoswinkler]

Yes, it's an awesome remake of the original teaser trailer.

"please don't sue me"

[plainawesome]

Just use your EVA jetpack, lol.

[astropapi1]

Watch it. NOW!!!

It's a matter of waiting a couple of weeks until it arrives at my local cinema.

Perks of living in a small city.

[Old Pete]

Now prepare yourselves for the 'we want female kerbals' threads!

So true. And what bad would it be? I mean, how difficult can it be to have the name generator spit out female names and have the face shaped just a little more feminin?

Call me hopeless romantic, but for me, it would enrich my gaming experience if I could, for examples, sent couples in space, or having bold Kerbin ladys go where no Kerbal has gone before.

Well, one may still hope I guess

Oh, and for that movie:

Is it good, worth watching? Or rather pointless action cinema? I wonder especialy about the space setting, did the get that right? Like no sounds in outside views and such things...

[Thiel]

Oh, and for that movie:

Is it good, worth watching? Or rather pointless action cinema? I wonder especialy about the space setting, did the get that right? Like no sounds in outside views and such things...

Gravity is definitely worth watching, especially in 3D if you can get away with it.

They didn't get all the science right, but they did better than any other movie I can't think of that aside from Apollo 13.

[lajoswinkler]

Oh, and for that movie:

Is it good, worth watching? Or rather pointless action cinema? I wonder especialy about the space setting, did the get that right? Like no sounds in outside views and such things...

It's probably the most accurate science fiction ever made and trust me on that because I can be a total nerd about those things. I don't count Apollo 13 because that's based on real events and was just a matter of displaying historical events properly.

If you have decent knowledge of Newtonian physics, you'll see that orbital mechanics are pretty much ignored, but that, as well as some other things, simply had to be ignored because otherwise the plot fails completely.

Technical details are remarkable, except when the main character removes astronaut suit and we see no cooling system and no diapers, only a great pair of legs and ass.

If you can watch it Real3D in your small town cinema, do it and be sure to pick a seat close enough so that your field of view is almost completely filled by the screen to enchance the effect. I made a mistake the first time when I watched it too far away, but it was IMAX so it turned out great. The second time was Real3D, quite close to the screen and I sometimes I wanted to do this.

[iDan122]

Just use your EVA jetpack, lol.

His pack is empty in the movie

[iLlama]

If you play Kerbal Space Program DO NOT watch that movie: it's stupidly inaccurate as heck, they spent millions to make everithing look realistic but they didn't care about newtonian phisics and we can see many dumb errors, for example that guy with the RCS jetpack does a plane change (that we know they require a significant amount of ÃŽâ€v) from the Hubble telescope to the ISS when those jetpacks in real life have actually just a couple of m/s of ÃŽâ€v, and then a second later when we see that guy drifting away from the other astronaut tangled in the parachute, when he grabs her arm and he is COMPLETELY stopped a magical force still pulls him where he was going (before he f....ng stopped moving) and when he lets go the magical force make him fly away at a ridicolous speed (and i repeat, he wasn't moving in respect of the space station nor in respect of her).

Then, for the sake of drama and 3D, theyr tears magically fly of instead of sticking to theyr face like they should do (like when they squeezed a wet cloth on the real ISS during a livestream, the superficial tension of the water made it create a thin layer of water over the cloth and theyr hands). also why the **** those debries are moving so fast if they are in the same orbit? i tought they put satellites in circular orbits non in weird elliptical ones which is the only explanation why the debries are moving so fast, or they are in an opposite orbit, but that's just dumb because it's a waste of fuel to fight earth rotation, and if the debries were in Hubble's orbit (?) why there are so many debries also in ISS' one?

and also why is a chinese space station in line of sight with the ISS?

also, a medic is asigned to the Hubble space telescope's manutention.

meh

Edited November 17, 2013 by iLlama

[iLlama]

it would enrich my gaming experience if I could, for examples, sent couples in space

Dude, seriously, NO!

1-KSP is not a dating simulator

2-female kerbals add nothing to the gameplay, it would be a fair amount of work (to get the name generator to assign a face to a name depending on its sex) and would be POINTLESS!

3-It's weird to ask for that

[plainawesome]

His pack is empty in the movie

Yea, but in KSP, you always leave the ship to go on EVA with a full pack of jet pack fuel.

[plainawesome]

If you play Kerbal Space Program DO NOT watch that movie: it's stupidly inaccurate as heck, they spent millions to make everithing look realistic but they didn't care about newtonian phisics and we can see many dumb errors, for example that guy with the RCS jetpack does a plane change (that we know they require a significant amount of ÃŽâ€v) from the Hubble telescope to the ISS when those jetpacks in real life have actually just a couple of m/s of ÃŽâ€v, and then a second later when we see that guy drifting away from the other astronaut tangled in the parachute, when he grabs her arm and he is COMPLETELY stopped a magical force still pulls him where he was going (before he f....ng stopped moving) and when he lets go the magical force make him fly away at a ridicolous speed (and i repeat, he wasn't moving in respect of the space station nor in respect of her).

Then, for the sake of drama and 3D, theyr tears magically fly of instead of sticking to theyr face like they should do (like when they squeezed a wet cloth on the real ISS during a livestream, the superficial tension of the water made it create a thin layer of water over the cloth and theyr hands). also why the **** those debries are moving so fast if they are in the same orbit? i tought they put satellites in circular orbits non in weird elliptical ones which is the only explanation why the debries are moving so fast, or they are in an opposite orbit, but that's just dumb because it's a waste of fuel to fight earth rotation, and if the debries were in Hubble's orbit (?) why there are so many debries also in ISS' one?

and also why is a chinese space station in line of sight with the ISS?

also, a medic is asigned to the Hubble space telescope's manutention.

meh

Chill, do you really think Hollywood gives two sh*ts about the physics in space, of course not, they're just trying to make quick cash.

[sinesc]

Dude, seriously, NO!

1-KSP is not a dating simulator

2-female kerbals add nothing to the gameplay, it would be a fair amount of work (to get the name generator to assign a face to a name depending on its sex) and would be POINTLESS!

3-It's weird to ask for that

Agreed to 1, disagreed with 2 and amused by 3.

The game does a pretty good job of getting young people interested in space exploration, not sure about women though. Guess we'd have to ask one on that, but if roles were reversed, you'd probably find it "weird" too, to fly around in space as Sandra Kerbal and have only other female names as options.

The video was pretty nice though