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Originally Posted by Suzy
Look… sorry, I have to throw this in, I’m only human after all… that part at the beginning when he gets out of that “Lightning” plane all decked out in his flight uniform brought all my fantasties to life. Hubba bubba… That take off – down the runway and straight up vertically in the air just blew me away and made my heart race. 18km straight up, and five G’s (estimated alt. of that plane is a whopping 60,000 ft) to get to our atmosphere. Looks a lot like the shuttle.
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'Twould be fun .. and I think that's what the sequence was all about.
The idea that there's something to learn about science by looking out the window at an extremely small, slanted, cross sectional view of the atmosphere, is highly dubious though.
That's what Al Gore got hung up on … a long distance view of the Earth taken from way out beyond Saturn (??I recall ??). Completely emotive, if you ask me.
Cheers