PS isn't it fun that modern science has Earth at the center of the universe, 90 billion light years on all sides is what we can see, so we are at center of the observable universe, precisely what Church claimed all along?
It's not Sun that is at the center, it's not center of our galaxy nor a galaxy itself, but the Earth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3zcavu/logscale_map_of_the_known_universe_created_using/
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum.
Fun movie, albeit kinda lacking depth. Family loses son, hardly blinks, not even mothers, sisters weeping?
I think it's not something modern gen Z audiences can relate to. E.g. someone like Osaka would be hurt by the scene, loss of a son, and then further disappointed with the pace of the movie that treats it like almost irrelevant event in the course of the movie. Kinda like redshirt fate from Star Trek the original series. Just die so we can have some event.
What do you think?
Title also seems quite misplaced, El Dorado, there was no treasure hunt or conquistadors so why such title? Sure I guess there's some allegory to Rio Bravo or eternal quest for something mythical, but ok, I expected treasure, real gold, just saying.
However despite being misplaced none is as misplaced as "Interstellar" which is actually "Interdimensional" and has less to do with interstellar travel. I expected very different movie back then and I was hugely disappointed even though the film was "good", but I expected something entirely else. Real struggle with interstellar exploration not some time travel through dimensions.
Having previously mentioned Star Trek, now to say something about my shock with Interstellar, I had similar shock when I was introduced to Star Trek the motion picture in my childhood. I expected to see Picard, Data etc but there were some unknowns, Kirk, Spock and a weird Enterprise.
I thought it was kinda like in soap operas when they replace actors with new ones, but I couldn't figure out why they changed their names too?
Now regarding space and interstellar, relative to their sizes, distances between the stars are biggest distance in universe, on all levels, subatomic and cosmic. For example distances between galaxies are obviously ludicrous and gazillion times greater than distances between the stars, but distances between the galaxies are not at all extreme, given the sizes of galaxies themselves.
Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, but Milky Way and Andromeda are each roughly 0.1 million light years in diameter, so it's like 25 times.
The stars, omg. Closest to us, proxima centauri is 4.2 light years away, and sun has a diameter of 4-5 light seconds.
So the distance is like 26 million times the size of the star?
That's far bigger than what you get in atoms too between the core and electron etc.
But since we treat galaxies as one body, even though they're mostly empty within, let's be fair and consider entire solar system as one body, not just star itself, then where to draw a line where star system is supposed to end? At most extreme, you could say star systems are closely packed and are touching each other, and each is 2-3 light years in size? So it's a perspective.
Regarding immense distances, for that reason, even Sci-Fi stories, and sci-fi universes, almost all of them, take place within a *single galaxy*.
The entire star tek is in our own galaxy, the entire star wars fantasy is in "some galaxy far away", it's scary to actually understand that even when you write completely fantasy, you wouldn't be able to mix galaxies as that would be beyond fantasy?
And there are billions of galaxies, absurdity.
One of the greatest mysteries in universe is that stars at the edge of the galaxy rotate around the center as fast as those stars near the center, contradiction to all known motion laws. (E.g. Jupiter goes around the sun slower than earth because it is farther away).
So some mysterious force is at work.
They assume something affects those at the edge, speeds them up, that there is something wicked and devilish outside of gaiscy, but perhaps those in the center are the ones affected and slowed down by something there?
Imagine if all this was solved in a new year?
Happy new year.
PS isn't it fun that modern science has Earth at the center of the universe, 90 billion light years on all sides is what we can see, so we are at center of the observable universe, precisely what Church claimed all along?
It's not Sun that is at the center, it's not center of our galaxy nor a galaxy itself, but the Earth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3zcavu/logscale_map_of_the_known_universe_created_using/
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum.
Fun movie, albeit kinda lacking depth. Family loses son, hardly blinks, not even mothers, sisters weeping?
I think it's not something modern gen Z audiences can relate to. E.g. someone like Osaka would be hurt by the scene, loss of a son, and then further disappointed with the pace of the movie that treats it like almost irrelevant event in the course of the movie. Kinda like redshirt fate from Star Trek the original series. Just die so we can have some event.
What do you think?
Title also seems quite misplaced, El Dorado, there was no treasure hunt or conquistadors so why such title? Sure I guess there's some allegory to Rio Bravo or eternal quest for something mythical, but ok, I expected treasure, real gold, just saying.
However despite being misplaced none is as misplaced as "Interstellar" which is actually "Interdimensional" and has less to do with interstellar travel. I expected very different movie back then and I was hugely disappointed even though the film was "good", but I expected something entirely else. Real struggle with interstellar exploration not some time travel through dimensions.
Having previously mentioned Star Trek, now to say something about my shock with Interstellar, I had similar shock when I was introduced to Star Trek the motion picture in my childhood. I expected to see Picard, Data etc but there were some unknowns, Kirk, Spock and a weird Enterprise.
I thought it was kinda like in soap operas when they replace actors with new ones, but I couldn't figure out why they changed their names too?
Now regarding space and interstellar, relative to their sizes, distances between the stars are biggest distance in universe, on all levels, subatomic and cosmic. For example distances between galaxies are obviously ludicrous and gazillion times greater than distances between the stars, but distances between the galaxies are not at all extreme, given the sizes of galaxies themselves.
Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, but Milky Way and Andromeda are each roughly 0.1 million light years in diameter, so it's like 25 times.
The stars, omg. Closest to us, proxima centauri is 4.2 light years away, and sun has a diameter of 4-5 light seconds.
So the distance is like 26 million times the size of the star?
That's far bigger than what you get in atoms too between the core and electron etc.
But since we treat galaxies as one body, even though they're mostly empty within, let's be fair and consider entire solar system as one body, not just star itself, then where to draw a line where star system is supposed to end? At most extreme, you could say star systems are closely packed and are touching each other, and each is 2-3 light years in size? So it's a perspective.
Regarding immense distances, for that reason, even Sci-Fi stories, and sci-fi universes, almost all of them, take place within a *single galaxy*.
The entire star tek is in our own galaxy, the entire star wars fantasy is in "some galaxy far away", it's scary to actually understand that even when you write completely fantasy, you wouldn't be able to mix galaxies as that would be beyond fantasy?
And there are billions of galaxies, absurdity.
One of the greatest mysteries in universe is that stars at the edge of the galaxy rotate around the center as fast as those stars near the center, contradiction to all known motion laws. (E.g. Jupiter goes around the sun slower than earth because it is farther away).
So some mysterious force is at work.
They assume something affects those at the edge, speeds them up, that there is something wicked and devilish outside of gaiscy, but perhaps those in the center are the ones affected and slowed down by something there?
Imagine if all this was solved in a new year?
Happy new year.
PS isn't it fun that modern science has Earth at the center of the universe, 90 billion light years on all sides is what we can see, so we are at center of the observable universe, precisely what Church claimed all along?
It's not Sun that is at the center, it's not center of our galaxy nor a galaxy itself, but the Earth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3zcavu/logscale_map_of_the_known_universe_created_using/
*skriptis kirjoitti 2.1.2026 klo 11.27:
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum.
Fun movie, albeit kinda lacking depth. Family loses son, hardly
blinks, not even mothers, sisters weeping?
I think it's not something modern gen Z audiences can relate to. E.g.
someone like Osaka would be hurt by the scene, loss of a son, and then
further disappointed with the pace of the movie that treats it like
almost irrelevant event in the course of the movie. Kinda like
redshirt fate from Star Trek the original series. Just die so we can
have some event.
What do you think?
Title also seems quite misplaced, El Dorado, there was no treasure
hunt or conquistadors so why such title? Sure I guess there's some
allegory to Rio Bravo or eternal quest for something mythical, but ok,
I expected treasure, real gold, just saying.
However despite being misplaced none is as misplaced as "Interstellar"
which is actually "Interdimensional" and has less to do with
interstellar travel. I expected very different movie back then and I
was hugely disappointed even though the film was "good", but I
expected something entirely else. Real struggle with interstellar
exploration not some time travel through dimensions.
Having previously mentioned Star Trek, now to say something about my
shock with Interstellar, I had similar shock when I was introduced to
Star Trek the motion picture in my childhood. I expected to see
Picard, Data etc but there were some unknowns, Kirk, Spock and a weird
Enterprise.
I thought it was kinda like in soap operas when they replace actors
with new ones, but I couldn't figure out why they changed their names
too?
Now regarding space and interstellar, relative to their sizes,
distances between the stars are biggest distance in universe, on all
levels, subatomic and cosmic. For example distances between galaxies
are obviously ludicrous and gazillion times greater than distances
between the stars, but distances between the galaxies are not at all
extreme, given the sizes of galaxies themselves.
Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, but Milky Way and Andromeda
are each roughly 0.1 million light years in diameter, so it's like 25
times.
The stars, omg. Closest to us, proxima centauri is 4.2 light years
away, and sun has a diameter of 4-5 light seconds.
So the distance is like 26 million times the size of the star?
That's far bigger than what you get in atoms too between the core and
electron etc.
But since we treat galaxies as one body, even though they're mostly
empty within, let's be fair and consider entire solar system as one
body, not just star itself, then where to draw a line where star
system is supposed to end? At most extreme, you could say star systems
are closely packed and are touching each other, and each is 2-3 light
years in size? So it's a perspective.
Regarding immense distances, for that reason, even Sci-Fi stories, and
sci-fi universes, almost all of them, take place within a *single
galaxy*.
The entire star tek is in our own galaxy, the entire star wars fantasy
is in "some galaxy far away", it's scary to actually understand that
even when you write completely fantasy, you wouldn't be able to mix
galaxies as that would be beyond fantasy?
And there are billions of galaxies, absurdity.
One of the greatest mysteries in universe is that stars at the edge of
the galaxy rotate around the center as fast as those stars near the
center, contradiction to all known motion laws. (E.g. Jupiter goes
around the sun slower than earth because it is farther away).
So some mysterious force is at work.
They assume something affects those at the edge, speeds them up, that
there is something wicked and devilish outside of gaiscy, but perhaps
those in the center are the ones affected and slowed down by something
there?
Imagine if all this was solved in a new year?
Happy new year.
PS isn't it fun that modern science has Earth at the center of the
universe, 90 billion light years on all sides is what we can see, so
we are at center of the observable universe, precisely what Church
claimed all along?
It's not Sun that is at the center, it's not center of our galaxy nor
a galaxy itself, but the Earth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3zcavu/
logscale_map_of_the_known_universe_created_using/
TLDR & quite a stretch jumping from El Dorado to Interstellar. :)
I've rated El Dorado a solid 6/10. But seem to remember hardly any of it despite the famous cast & good-looking ladies, so must be unusually unmemorable package. That can't be said of Interstellar.
On 1/3/26 2:03 AM, TT wrote:
*skriptis kirjoitti 2.1.2026 klo 11.27:
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum.
Fun movie, albeit kinda lacking depth. Family loses son, hardly
blinks, not even mothers, sisters weeping?
I think it's not something modern gen Z audiences can relate to. E.g.
someone like Osaka would be hurt by the scene, loss of a son, and
then further disappointed with the pace of the movie that treats it
like almost irrelevant event in the course of the movie. Kinda like
redshirt fate from Star Trek the original series. Just die so we can
have some event.
What do you think?
Title also seems quite misplaced, El Dorado, there was no treasure
hunt or conquistadors so why such title? Sure I guess there's some
allegory to Rio Bravo or eternal quest for something mythical, but
ok, I expected treasure, real gold, just saying.
However despite being misplaced none is as misplaced as
"Interstellar" which is actually "Interdimensional" and has less to
do with interstellar travel. I expected very different movie back
then and I was hugely disappointed even though the film was "good",
but I expected something entirely else. Real struggle with
interstellar exploration not some time travel through dimensions.
Having previously mentioned Star Trek, now to say something about my
shock with Interstellar, I had similar shock when I was introduced to
Star Trek the motion picture in my childhood. I expected to see
Picard, Data etc but there were some unknowns, Kirk, Spock and a
weird Enterprise.
I thought it was kinda like in soap operas when they replace actors
with new ones, but I couldn't figure out why they changed their names
too?
Now regarding space and interstellar, relative to their sizes,
distances between the stars are biggest distance in universe, on all
levels, subatomic and cosmic. For example distances between galaxies
are obviously ludicrous and gazillion times greater than distances
between the stars, but distances between the galaxies are not at all
extreme, given the sizes of galaxies themselves.
Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, but Milky Way and
Andromeda are each roughly 0.1 million light years in diameter, so
it's like 25 times.
The stars, omg. Closest to us, proxima centauri is 4.2 light years
away, and sun has a diameter of 4-5 light seconds.
So the distance is like 26 million times the size of the star?
That's far bigger than what you get in atoms too between the core and
electron etc.
But since we treat galaxies as one body, even though they're mostly
empty within, let's be fair and consider entire solar system as one
body, not just star itself, then where to draw a line where star
system is supposed to end? At most extreme, you could say star
systems are closely packed and are touching each other, and each is
2-3 light years in size? So it's a perspective.
Regarding immense distances, for that reason, even Sci-Fi stories,
and sci-fi universes, almost all of them, take place within a *single
galaxy*.
The entire star tek is in our own galaxy, the entire star wars
fantasy is in "some galaxy far away", it's scary to actually
understand that even when you write completely fantasy, you wouldn't
be able to mix galaxies as that would be beyond fantasy?
And there are billions of galaxies, absurdity.
One of the greatest mysteries in universe is that stars at the edge
of the galaxy rotate around the center as fast as those stars near
the center, contradiction to all known motion laws. (E.g. Jupiter
goes around the sun slower than earth because it is farther away).
So some mysterious force is at work.
They assume something affects those at the edge, speeds them up, that
there is something wicked and devilish outside of gaiscy, but perhaps
those in the center are the ones affected and slowed down by
something there?
Imagine if all this was solved in a new year?
Happy new year.
PS isn't it fun that modern science has Earth at the center of the
universe, 90 billion light years on all sides is what we can see, so
we are at center of the observable universe, precisely what Church
claimed all along?
It's not Sun that is at the center, it's not center of our galaxy nor
a galaxy itself, but the Earth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3zcavu/
logscale_map_of_the_known_universe_created_using/
TLDR & quite a stretch jumping from El Dorado to Interstellar. :)
I've rated El Dorado a solid 6/10. But seem to remember hardly any of
it despite the famous cast & good-looking ladies, so must be unusually
unmemorable package. That can't be said of Interstellar.
I saw a 2025 film last night, "Warfare", written by Alex Garland, a guy
who has done some pretty interesting stuff. Ex Makina, Annihilation, TV series Devs, etc.
Near documentary-like in narrative, character development, and pacing.
All blood and guts and immediacy. No dumb-ass backstories or dialog.
8 of 10, maybe 9. Not entertainment, per se, but an *experience*.
Sawfish kirjoitti 3.1.2026 klo 19.49:
On 1/3/26 2:03 AM, TT wrote:
*skriptis kirjoitti 2.1.2026 klo 11.27:
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum.
Fun movie, albeit kinda lacking depth. Family loses son, hardly
blinks, not even mothers, sisters weeping?
I think it's not something modern gen Z audiences can relate to.
E.g. someone like Osaka would be hurt by the scene, loss of a son,
and then further disappointed with the pace of the movie that treats
it like almost irrelevant event in the course of the movie. Kinda
like redshirt fate from Star Trek the original series. Just die so
we can have some event.
What do you think?
Title also seems quite misplaced, El Dorado, there was no treasure
hunt or conquistadors so why such title? Sure I guess there's some
allegory to Rio Bravo or eternal quest for something mythical, but
ok, I expected treasure, real gold, just saying.
However despite being misplaced none is as misplaced as
"Interstellar" which is actually "Interdimensional" and has less to
do with interstellar travel. I expected very different movie back
then and I was hugely disappointed even though the film was "good",
but I expected something entirely else. Real struggle with
interstellar exploration not some time travel through dimensions.
Having previously mentioned Star Trek, now to say something about my
shock with Interstellar, I had similar shock when I was introduced
to Star Trek the motion picture in my childhood. I expected to see
Picard, Data etc but there were some unknowns, Kirk, Spock and a
weird Enterprise.
I thought it was kinda like in soap operas when they replace actors
with new ones, but I couldn't figure out why they changed their
names too?
Now regarding space and interstellar, relative to their sizes,
distances between the stars are biggest distance in universe, on all
levels, subatomic and cosmic. For example distances between galaxies
are obviously ludicrous and gazillion times greater than distances
between the stars, but distances between the galaxies are not at all
extreme, given the sizes of galaxies themselves.
Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, but Milky Way and
Andromeda are each roughly 0.1 million light years in diameter, so
it's like 25 times.
The stars, omg. Closest to us, proxima centauri is 4.2 light years
away, and sun has a diameter of 4-5 light seconds.
So the distance is like 26 million times the size of the star?
That's far bigger than what you get in atoms too between the core
and electron etc.
But since we treat galaxies as one body, even though they're mostly
empty within, let's be fair and consider entire solar system as one
body, not just star itself, then where to draw a line where star
system is supposed to end? At most extreme, you could say star
systems are closely packed and are touching each other, and each is
2-3 light years in size? So it's a perspective.
Regarding immense distances, for that reason, even Sci-Fi stories,
and sci-fi universes, almost all of them, take place within a
*single galaxy*.
The entire star tek is in our own galaxy, the entire star wars
fantasy is in "some galaxy far away", it's scary to actually
understand that even when you write completely fantasy, you wouldn't
be able to mix galaxies as that would be beyond fantasy?
And there are billions of galaxies, absurdity.
One of the greatest mysteries in universe is that stars at the edge
of the galaxy rotate around the center as fast as those stars near
the center, contradiction to all known motion laws. (E.g. Jupiter
goes around the sun slower than earth because it is farther away).
So some mysterious force is at work.
They assume something affects those at the edge, speeds them up,
that there is something wicked and devilish outside of gaiscy, but
perhaps those in the center are the ones affected and slowed down by
something there?
Imagine if all this was solved in a new year?
Happy new year.
PS isn't it fun that modern science has Earth at the center of the
universe, 90 billion light years on all sides is what we can see, so
we are at center of the observable universe, precisely what Church
claimed all along?
It's not Sun that is at the center, it's not center of our galaxy
nor a galaxy itself, but the Earth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3zcavu/
logscale_map_of_the_known_universe_created_using/
TLDR & quite a stretch jumping from El Dorado to Interstellar. :)
I've rated El Dorado a solid 6/10. But seem to remember hardly any of
it despite the famous cast & good-looking ladies, so must be
unusually unmemorable package. That can't be said of Interstellar.
I saw a 2025 film last night, "Warfare", written by Alex Garland, a
guy who has done some pretty interesting stuff. Ex Makina,
Annihilation, TV series Devs, etc.
Near documentary-like in narrative, character development, and pacing.
All blood and guts and immediacy. No dumb-ass backstories or dialog.
8 of 10, maybe 9. Not entertainment, per se, but an *experience*.
That description reminds me of crazy French dancing-LSD-blood-horror art film Climax (2018)
https://youtu.be/GYhxvUI6ChU?si=SCQwYlgiV8HN-u9B
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