>>2269
Ok VPS has been upgraded :) I'm locking this thread due to the amount of images, feel free to create a new one :)

Oh yeah, this was a cool read and very relevant. Official NASA statement on what actually might happen to a human being tossed out into the void:

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html

Compare with examples from fiction. You don't explode instantaneously, your blood doesn't boil out of your ears in a matter of seconds, nor do you turn into a human Ice Pop right away because you aren't immersed in cold water or freezing winds, so you lose heat only by radiation and not conduction. Exposure to solar radiation without a blanket of atmosphere however IS a problem, assuming you're in sight of the sun. Also, the bends in a really bad way.

The scene in Event Horizon (which admittedly crosses the line into fantasy, and intentionally so) where the kid is in the airlock which is about to crack. Someone tells him to shut his eyes tight and blow all the air out of his lungs. Might save you a few seconds?

>>4635
Yup...Being exposed to space is very much like being exposed to atmosphere after being at the bottom of a trench. Only worse. explode your lungs in your chest and veins in your eyeballs popping worse.

>>4635
They did something like this in Titan AE - Cale and Korso blast out of a hangar bay in a small craft but their windshield gets cracked and starts to fracture. Korso tells Cale to exhale, then smashes the glass with a fire extinguisher and rides it up to their waiting ship

Probably the only scientifically accurate part of the whole movie. It was fun though, I recommend it.

I absolutely loved Planetes - I have to say it's the only anime I've ever enjoyed, but hopefully I can amend that statement after checking out some of your recommendations.

I wouldn't say BSG dumbed down any real-life connections foreign occupation and suicide bombers for example but I'm willing to consider the possibility that I've just been missing out on comparatively harder-hitting stuff.

>>4647
Oh I didn't mean that the themes were dumbed down so much as it felt the need to be very direct in what it discussed, rather than maintaining a real distance as sci fi generally allows. I felt it was a little dumbed down to so openly treat the themes, they may as well have called it the Battleship America... It was, I suppose, universal enough? Not that the show sucked though.

Anyone that goes in for Legend of Galactic Heroes has my support. I'm afraid to start it because of the staggering amount of episodes (110), spin-offs, movies, etc. Apparently it's all fantastic, but it seems a bit of a full-immersion thing. The novel itself is meant to be rather good too.

Blue Gender might be worth checking out too, though a lot of it isn't set in space. Still, it's one of the late-90s serious, dark anime allowed by the popularity of Evangelion. Again, dark mecha story featuring invading aliens, humans are forced to live in orbiting space stations. Not the best ever, but I could think of worse starting points, and I guess unlike Eva it has a proper ending XD

>>4648
> Anyone that goes in for Legend of Galactic Heroes has my support. I'm afraid to start it because of the staggering amount of episodes

That's what's held me off.

>>4584
>Radical labor circles
I didn't get that vibe at all. They felt a lot more like Old West-type ballads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg8i5fgNL8M
Not exactly in the same style, but it's a real world example.

>>4592
Radical labour songs (esp. in America) are pretty much directly descended from a lot of cowboy songs, traditional favourites, etc. The IWW songbook was full of stuff that wouldn't feel out of place in a Western.

>>4593
I was just going to mention the IWW. They have an extensive repertoire of songs going back over a century and some of it is actually great, I didn't mean to dismiss it wholesale up there. Actually it was quite important during the darker times of their history to cling to a working class/underclass culture of some kind, complete with song and poetry. For morale reasons, and as a way of recording the sacrifices people made along the way. But some of it is crap, I have to be honest.

>>4591
It is how we lose culture, but it can also be how we retain it. Names and meanings of songs and stories change and evolve. Human culture is malleable and in a constant state of change... nothing last forever anyway.

SHOO!
SHOO! SHOO!

Cool dump. The lego one is adorable. I need to read Dune again, I was terribly depressed when I read it the first time and so it didn't click the way I thought it should have. I was also just reading the wiki pages about the novel and movie a second ago and some of the film reviews are pretty amusing. A lot of people really hate the fuck out of that movie.

I fucken loev the book and the David Lynch version. Its is easily the deepest and most complex fiction I've read. Sean Young still haunts me too. Anyone that disagrees is a Tom Clancy fan.

>>4329
neat, thanks

>>4535
It's a tiny chan. It's like living in a four building town and "sometimes visiting" the one bookstore.

>>4535
> Visitor

Now wait just a minute, why did you feel the need to capitalize that word? Makes me suspicious.. State your species, homeworld and purpose here or be prepared to be blasted out of orbit by... formidable... and horrifying... uh, weapons... of some kind.

You have one Earth hour to respond.

>>4536 see >>4537
I just wanted to make a lame sci fi joke.

What I liked about SG:U was that not only was the Destiny a pretty cool design for a starship but that it was one of the only few shows while along with doing standard scifi space fare, that also have ever tried to break out and go after something of such a massive scale for a topic such as the origin of the universe. Would have loved to see how they played that one out if they had the chance...
>>522
>>523
I used to love every bit of that movie but then after watching it again last weekend with a friend I all of a sudden noticed not only did that little fuckin muggie Wikus totally bail out on such an unbelievably incredible journey to wallow in a dump but knowing he could/would be turned back to being a human again that it should have dawned on him that he could have gathered so much wisdom and knowledge to bring back and share with the rest of us that it should have felt like the ONLY logical thing to do. I don't know how else I can explain all of the instantaneous rage that exploded in me when I realized that bullshit. Now, to me, its one of the greatest scifi movies ever made, that ends in garbage-pickin. wtf...

>>4530
As I recall, Christopher never offered Wikus a lift anyway. Wikus stayed behind to cover Christopher's escape, trusting that Christopher would return and fix him someday. Something like that I think, uh it's been a while.

I think it was like
"I'll be back"
"Cool, when?"
"A few years lol"
"wat"
"kthxbye"