Thread: just a confusion with 2001(space odyssey)
View Single Post
  #6 (permalink)  
Old 19-July-2006, 06:55 AM
kucharek's Avatar
kucharek kucharek is offline
Senior Member
  
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany, Old Europe
Posts: 4,052
Default
Not the whole craft is spinning, just a caroussel section inside. The pod garage etc is in the non-spinning part.
I don't agree with Kubrick that the only technical error must be one. When you sip something from a pack with a straw, u often leave an underpressure in the pack. So, if u stop sipping and leave the straw, the liquid inside would run back, even in zero gravity.This behaviour would even be desirable and thus enforced in a zero-gravity drink pack, I guess.
__________________
"Flying in space is risky business, but just staying on this planet is risky business too." - John Young, astronaut
Reply With Quote