Gravitylooks passably damn terrific . Most philosophers would separate us that for a moving-picture show to really be chilling to the bone , it must call to beware a real - life experiential awe that ’s bury within our souls . So Gravity is tugging at some deeply held fright we ’ve got , then , right ? Well , according to real astronaut Michael Massimino , the motion picture is a clustering of bull .
monish THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS spoiler . Not smash - the - moving picture spoilers , but the following copy does reveal certain patch details you might not want to be aware of when the moving picture hits theaters starting October 4th .
The NYTimeswent to the movieswith Massimino , who like the fictional cosmonaut played by George Clooney and Sandra Bullock in Gravity , worked on missions resort the Hubble Space Telescope . As you ’ve in all likelihood surmised from the heroic trailers for Gravity , some terrible naughtiness kick the bucket down during a spacewalk . What you believably have n’t heard ! ! — XXSPOILERXX — ! ! is that the solution the fearful , floating astronauts come up with is to fly to the nearby International Space Station via jetpack .
Turns out , this is n’t just unimaginable for jetpacks . It ’s inconceivable for space shuttles , too :
As we recall from bitter store , the Hubble and the space station are in immensely different orbits . become from one to the other ask so much vitality that not even space shuttles had enough fuel to do it . The telescope is 353 mile high , in an eye socket that keeps it near the Equator ; the distance place is about 100 miles lower , in an orbit that takes it far northwards , over Russia .
To have the moving-picture show astronauts Matt Kowalski ( Mr. Clooney ) and Ryan Stone ( Ms. Bullock ) zip over to the distance place would be like make a pirate toss overboard in the Caribbean swimming to London .
So there you have it straight from an IRL cosmonaut : the event in Gravity could never happen . Do n’t worry , though , we ’re certain that this plot of land error wo n’t count and that the film will kick ass anyway . [ NYTimes ]
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