Comments on: Sunshine Interview

By: Christian Burnham

Christian Burnham — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:26:31 +0000

Hey, any gal with those looks who also likes science is damn near perfection in my book! I’m looking forward to the movie, I’m sure it’s going to be great.

By: gia

gia — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:56:06 +0000

Don’t worry about it, Christian, you’ve made me *blush*… and then laugh.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:00:41 +0000

Christian, shut up, you are only making it worse…

By: Christian Burnham

Christian Burnham — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:35:33 +0000

Uh ok, I’m really not too proud of my comment above… but Gia really does look like Catherine Zeta Jones no? You can continue your discussions on how to land on the Sun now.

By: George

George — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:40:30 +0000

Care to guess my question? hehe

Please, please do not make the sun’s color yellow. It would be cowardly in both ways. [ok, that's too strong; I can't seem to shake the cornjunktive]. Visit SOHO and TRACE for fantastic images and colors. Certain filters produce beautiful images. Depict our star either in its true intrinsic color, or as we would see it in its blinding-to-the-eye form (white).

That might stir greater scientific interest. [It might do wonders for heliochromology. ]

BTW, very enjoyable interview. :clap: Delighted at the prospect for greater scientific authenticity.

The BA’s star grazer idea was cool, too. If one grazer were large enough and reach a certain perihelion, it might break-up (llike Shoemaker-Levy @ Jupiter: Roche limit?). The ice and solar energy could be utilized to send a smaller section to the “surface”. I am only guessing, but if you put us to work on it….maybe more than a maybe.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:25:18 +0000

About space ships in movies…

Why do they all point with there top to the same side?

There is no top, bottom, left and right in space right?

It just depends on where you are so why all they are floating with there top to the same point?

By: Eike Pierstorff

Eike Pierstorff — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:14:10 +0000

Phil, you don’t need to hurry to write up your idea – Hal Clement used it in a short story called “Sun Spot” a couple of decades ago (well, in the story people built a station in the comet instead of using it as a shield but it’s still a quite similar idea).

Nice interview, though.

By: bob woodington

bob woodington — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:11:53 +0000

why wait that long? simply send it up on a rainy day! in fact, send it up from seattle and you won’t have to worry about getting it done quickly (before the end of the eclipse)….

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:56:00 +0000

DouglasG, you fool. The probe will of course go during a solar eclipse….

By: DouglasG

DouglasG — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:31:01 +0000

Does the probe to the sun go at night to not get too hot? Sorry, bad joke and BAD astronomy…

By: Christian Burnham

Christian Burnham — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:37:50 +0000

Hoo boy! Mamma. Your BA blog just got a whole lot easier on the telescope. (No I’m not proud of this comment)

By: gia

gia — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:06:23 +0000

Hey, Phil! I think you *should* write the idea up!

I have a feeling that one of the things you spoke about in the interview has actually influenced the film ie they were going to do something the ‘traditional sci-fi movie way’ and after hearing your interview have decided to do it the ‘correct’ way… Which is verrry cool indeed…

And I’d *love* to interview you again! I wanted this one to be mainly about sci-fi films as a lot of the people interested in this film are not sci-fi fans. It stars people who haven’t been in sci-fi films before (except for Rose Byrne who was Queen Amidala’s handmaiden) and so their fans aren’t necessarily into the genre… So thank you for doing such a fun and entertaining interview!

And Brian says ‘hi’! (and people in the UK should be seeing him on TV coming up very soon…:) )