Talk:2001: A Space Odyssey

message: From the article: "The film is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight, . . ."
I beg to differ. The floating pen would be rotating about its center of mass. It isn't. 
Are the seats in the PanAm shuttle really adequate for a launch?
When Frank Poole is drifting away, the stars are continually moving up, and never stop moving up. This would only be true if the camera were "in orbit around him." Unlikely.
I'm curious about the stability of the still-under-construction space station, with major pieces of it unfinished. Seems it would lose its balance.
The moons of Jupiter are not like what we see in the film. Not at all. 
I think the space flight stuff is too luxurious compared to what it would actually be. I think Kubrick and Clarke extrapolated from buses to trains to planes to space, and you run out of money between the last two. Look at the ISS. Tens of billions of dollars just for that. Now think of what's in the film. 
What's with the explosive bolts? Where does the door go when Dave Bowman leaves the pod for the emergency airlock entrance, or whatever it's called?
Could we really see stars with the sun in our face?
Why is the Moon bluish?
People in suspended animation? Uh, we're not quite there yet. 
Seems to me that the centrifuge room is too small. The artificial gravity would be higher at your feet than your head. Could cause blood flow problems! I've also heard that a calculation shows that the strength of the artificial gravity produced, and the size and angular speed of the centrifuge, are not mutually consistent.
Still a great film. But like all movies, it has its flaws.
Betaneptune (talk) 03:38, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientific inaccuracies in its depiction of space flight 

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message: I've spent the afternoon trying to nail down the veracity of the challenged sentences under the 'Influence' section . 
Wasted most of my time doing date-restricted searches for corroboration, as the statement tends to appear in similar wording in numerous media from after 2006 - which is when user Jason Palpatine (no longer active here so not pinging) added it, without a cite, but with the edit summary  (edit found here - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2001:_A_Space_Odyssey&direction=next&oldid=53420315). That suggested later media isn't reliable for sourcing, as they were likely just regurgitating what's found here on WP.
'Starlog' was a sci-fi magazine that had an article about the documentary film of the making of 2010, and which does make the claim, but specific to the Discovery ship only (http://2010odysseyarchive.blogspot.com/2015/ originally published in 1984).
Further searching unearthed an excerpt on YouTube from the documentary in question, where Peter Stetson, Model Shop Supervisor on '2010' says the same beginning here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHpCeBQ5Xug&t=189s - and also seems to be referring only to the Discovery models, plans, etc., though his wording does leave some ambiguity. The fact that other paraphernalia from the film has surfaced from time to time at auction suggests that he was speaking specifically of the 'Discovery'.
Use of Youtube as a source is generally discouraged, but since it's an excerpt directly from the 'making of' documentary, I believe that's acceptable. I'm only going to add the cite, not modifying the current wording - I'd appreciate some feedback on interpreting Mr. Stetson's statements from the documentary before changing it (if needed).
Yep, fell down the rabbit hole here... cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 21:36, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's often said that all of the models were destroyed. The Discovery probably was, but in March 2015 an Aries 1B Trans-Lunar Space Shuttle used in the film fetched US $344,000 at auction. Also, in 1974, a model of Space Station V was found at a local council dump near the former MGM British studio in Hertfordshire. It was damaged but seems to be genuine.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 14:30, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kubrick and 'destroyed blueprints, models, etc' 

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