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4802985 No.4802985 [Reply] [Original]

Am I the only one who noticed that the Prometheus went faster than light?

>> No.4802988

Well done, you've discovered the only scientific flaw in the entire film.

You've obviously never seen K-PAX

>> No.4803054

Not really

>> No.4803057

>>4802988
K-PAX only makes sense psychologically

>> No.4803058

>>4802985
I haven't seen it, what do you mean?

>> No.4803061

Did anyone notice that Luke Skywalker's X-Wing travelled faster than light?

>> No.4803078

>>4803061
Star wars isn't sci fi, it's fantasy. Your argument is invalid.

>> No.4803088

>>4802985
That was ALL you noticed? REALLY?

>> No.4803089

>>4802985
They didn't. They went to 10*10^14km from earth, traveling at 0.5c for two years, this is viable, the problem is that that's in the oort cloud.

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4803095

Whelp, lets all be true to physics and have a movie where we watch them spend 400 years in cryosleep.

Alternative, go suck cock OP and stop being an autistic twat who can't enjoy the suspension of belief.

>> No.4803102

>>4803095
Pandorum.

>> No.4803104

>>4803095
Suspension of disbelief is them coming out of orbit and stumbling on the structure straight away.

Them being inconsistent about tech is just them being inconsistent with their shitty Lost script.

Them being in cryo sleep for a few hundreds years wouldn't matter cos the film isn't exactly in real time, we didn't watch the two year journey so why not skip forward a few hundred? It has happened SEVERAL times in the franchise before.

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>>4803104

Soooo, basically you're saying it doesn't matter? So wtf is this thread about then? Who gives a shit that it went FTL? Narrative imperative.

>> No.4803112

>>4803108
.......
The alien universe doesn't have FTL in 2480, it most definitely doesn't have it in 2080.

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>>4802985
>they went 300 trillion miles in 2 years
>Fuck Einstein
Prometheus = 25 times the speed of light
>mfw this film proves Einstein will be proven wrong

>> No.4803118

>>4803112

Ah yes, I forgot. The Nostromo took 15,000 years to complete its delivery mission at its pumpin' speed of 0.1c. My bad.

>> No.4803138

>>4803089
>They went to 10*10^14km from earth, traveling at 0.5c for two years, this is viable
GTFO my /sci/.

>> No.4803147

>>4803138
I am using the world 'viable' to encompass what is within the range of possible in a universe where there is a company dedicated to terroforming planets.

Getting to 0.5c is doable, they could have been using fusion engines or anything else that they want to pull out their ass.

The Nostromo was 20 years into a 200 year mission when they got waylaid by the beacon.

>> No.4803152

>>4803147
it said 3.27*10^14 miles away
>light travels 6 trillion miles in one year
so how could this be viable?

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>>4802985