Talk:Flight of the Navigator

message: So, I used to love this movie back in the day, and I'm pretty sure that the scene where they first show the spacecraft after crashing into the towers is filmed in NYC by the ConEd station on the river. I can recognize those 3 smokestacks anywhere, and unfortunately I'm not in a position to confirm or dis-confirm anything. Somebody help me out! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenswood_Generating_Station  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.243.191.131 (talk) 10:07, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Astoria / LIC 

message: I took out one sentence that made no sense at all. I re-wrote it a few times, hoping that while doing so I could hit on the sentence's secret meaning, but had no luck.Gingermint (talk) 23:53, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed Small Section

message: Some discussion on the special effects here would be nice.  At the time, I thought the ship's mirroring and transforming effects were phenominal. -- Sy / (talk) 14:12, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you only say that because your username means "Mercury"? ;) --  Denelson83  22:57, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special effects 

message: I just wanted to leave a note saying that I know I made an already too short introduction shorter, but the words I removed didn't add meaning. By way of justification: "transported in time eight years into the future" is tautology, and there's no need to say "somehow" if you're then going to explain how it happened. Perhaps an explanation of the title could be used to pad the introduction - it actually includes no mention of flying or navigating. I haven't seen this film in ages so I can't recall details well enough to add them. 212.248.180.200 (talk) 15:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction 

message: "This planet is described as being exactly 560 light-years away from Earth. The travel time used by the spacecraft to reach it is 2.2 solar hours, implying a speed of approximately 2.25 million times the speed of light."
560 lightyears / 2.2 hours is indeed 2.25 million times the speed of light.
That distance was travelled twice though! so it would be 5.5 million times the speed of light.
Even this doesn't really make sense, as that would use the distance as measured from a stationary observer (probably on earth) but takes the dilated time of the moving ship.
Correct would be: Using the time passed on earth (8 years) and distance as observed from earth (= 2 * 560 lightyears).
So the speed was "only" be 1120 lightyears / 8 years = 140 times the speed of light. --Flo422 (talk) 14:28, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed mentioned in this article doesn't make sense 

message: Magnius's overzealous policing of this article recently quenched someone pointing out that although David knew the phone number of his parents' new house, he didn't know its address. Was this explained in the film? Before he is taken to NASA his parents could have given him their new number and not their new address. It still seems strange to me. Or did I miss something?110.33.37.131 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 01:39, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good point 

message: why does every reference to Paul Ruebens refer to him as "Paul Mall"??  Paul Ruebens is in the ending credits as Paul Mall.  I'd like to know more.  At least this should be mentioned as trivia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.249.12 (talk) 20:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Mall? 

message: I'm surprised that there's no credit anywhere to Sheckley's "Specialist": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_(short_story)
gatotkatja (talk) 16:27, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Sheckley's "Specialist" 

message: Below information was tagged for needing sources in 2010. Feel free to reinsert into the article with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 17:53, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It is insane to see this information present from 2013 because Captain Disillusion made a video last summer that extensively covered the technology used in this film. I understand YouTube is self-published but the 45 minute video of information can make venturing for sources of the above a bit easier. The production section could be expanded. – The Grid (talk)  15:34, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced Material 

message: I just saw the movie for the first time and caught a major physics error that hasn't been mentioned here. To quote the article:
:His subconscious mind tells the scientists that he was taken to a planet called Phaelon, 560 light-years away, in just over a two-hour journey, and they realize that he has been subjected to time dilation as a result of having travelled at speeds far exceeding light, thus explaining why eight years have passed on Earth, but not for him.
No way! Time dilation would apply only to the trip to Phaelon and back, stated in the movie to have taken 2.2 hours each way. But he was evidently on Phaelon for eight years, and time dilation doesn't figure into that at all. I was waiting to find out that he was held in some kind of stasis on Phaelon, but no such thing was ever mentioned. The scriptwriters just dropped the ball. --Thnidu (talk) 00:17, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time dilation doesn't explain it 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Check out the article here - http://variety.com/2017/film/news/flight-of-the-navigator-reboot-joe-henderson-1202575383/ ChipmunkRaccoon (talk) 19:35, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lionsgate and Jim Henson Company to help reboot 

message: Did the Beatles song.  "I Get Around" get titled differently in the Flight of the Navigator? or was it omitted from the Sound Track list? It's the part David actually tries flying the ship himself with the controls and Max changes the radio station for him and they're cruising around the planet.  "Compliance!!!" CaribDigita (talk) 14:50, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beatles - I Get Around, I Get Around.