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by bergoid 2624 days ago
The Apollo 13 astronauts would like to share a couple of anecdotes with you.
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Apollo 13 (the movie) had plenty of careful checklist readbacks and minimal explosions or shaky cameras. Most scifi is more like Michael Bay in space. See Gravity for a more egregious example of a movie that tries to play itself off as "hard scifi" but ends up just being an over the top action movie.
Yeah, The Martian is like, the hardest sci-fi book I've ever read, but I found the film adaptation... lacking