Manual repair of the sun, or the film “Hell” 2007
I enjoyed watching the film “Hell”, which tells about the problems of mankind, much more global than those that we encountered in the past. For some reason, the description says “thriller”, but I haven’t seen such a fun sci-fi comedy for 50 million dollars for a long time.
The plot is briefly as follows.
Obviously, millions (billions?) Of years have passed on Earth, and the sun is fading. In order to shine brighter, he undoubtedly needed the help of earthlings - they think so, at least. Neither the relocation to another exoplanet, nor the movement of the Earth into a closer orbit, nor the terraforming of Mercury or Venus, were obviously considered - or were rejected as insufficiently ambitious. Only mending the sun, only hardcore. And manually - automation for wimps.
To mend the Sun, the whole Earth was dumped, and they collected a mega-bomb from fissile materials, which the physicist Cape proudly calls “his” in his introduction. Obviously, because he, along with her, was sent to the Sun on a ship, which was covered in front by a protective “umbrella”. Water recovery is carried out on the ship, there is an oxygen regeneration garden, but they did not learn how to grow food in this garden - although it would seem that planting potatoes in the same garden also begs.
But there is a virtual reality lounge for relaxation, and some other solarium, which astronauts use for tanning and regular inspection of the Sun. The more radiation the filter passes, the more pleasant it is to look at the sun. At the beginning of the film, a ship psychologist asks the computer to open a 4% filter for him. The computer breaks down, like a 1st year student, and does not give 4%, under the pretext that you are going to go blind. Then, thinking, guilty agrees to give 3.5%, but only quickly. The psychologist is happy, though by the middle of the film some spots are covered.
The ship approaches the Sun, and gradually flies up to Mercury. Due to the solar wind, the ability to send mail to Earth will soon disappear. We must hurry, but there is only one camera for shooting. She is occupied by the physicist Cape, and for half an hour, she is cruelly crucified by relatives that he is flying to the Sun, and that he is, as it were, a hero, although there is no information about the heroic acts committed to this moment in the film.
As a result, the next crew member does not have time to send news to relatives. Then he decides to engage in non-regulation and inflicts beatings on Cape (although, in general, Cape has the privileges of being the “owner of the bomb” — throughout the film, including to senior ranks). It should be noted that discipline, in principle, is not honored by crew members, people are creative, and they can be put into the snout at almost any time, regardless of whether there is a reason.
The team almost encourages such behavior of the astronauts (the girl at the remote condescendingly notes - they say, again, stupid males got hooked), and the captain defiantly detaches himself from any managerial and educational activity.
In this case, delegating educational functions - a surprise - to the psychologist. The psychologist this non-employee (who could cause damage to equipment and the disability of a key specialist - disrupting the mission to save humanity) punishes ... with correctional labor? What are you talking about, sometimes only women work on a ship in the oxygen garden! No, for an unregulated man they punish a couple of hours of the rest room, and having defended the term on one foot, the offender is released with a clear conscience.
Suddenly, the signal of the previous ship is caught. By the way, according to the plot, one more mega-bomb cannot be made, because on Earth there is no longer any raw materials for this. And so the first ship flew with the same mission and with the same bomb, did not fly, and there is no news from it. But this did not stop people from sending a second ship.
By tradition, the captain is no longer responsible for deciding whether to fly to the first ship. He simply interrupts the meeting with the phrase: “Alexander Druz answers!” Sorry, the brilliant physicist of Cape.
A brilliant physicist goes to his computer, which looks more like a magic mirror without a keyboard. The computer responds to voice requests. Cape asks the computer, but not about the flight path to the old ship, but about the main problem, about which it would be nice to deal even on Earth.
“My light is a mirror, what will happen when we put a bomb on the Sun?” Will help?
- I wish I could find out! - the computer answers.
Cape interprets the computer’s response as a 1/2 probability (either help or not), and adds to the captain that if there are 2 bombs, by the sum of the events this is 3/4, from probability theory. However, I already wrote this about probability theory from myself, and he said, they say, “two bombs are anyway better than one” - our brilliant physicist avoids turning to science, and more and more applies poetry. So, for example, he poetically explains to the girl the principle of the bomb, and in order to make an additional impression on her, he does not hesitate to insert a key into the bomb and slightly twist the starter.
The captain, as promised, supports Cape, not listening to the arguments. Change the course of the ship entrusted to an Asian student, and go about their business.
It takes some time. And then, not a cloud of thunder! The ship turned to the Sun on the wrong side and is roasting! An Asian student who seems to have got onto the ship as the captain’s nephew tears his hair and screams that he’s screwed up (the professional term of American astronauts), although everyone morally supports him and says that roasting the ship is an everyday thing. The captain, it seems, realizes that it would be nice to control the student, and out of guilt he goes into space to repair the “umbrella”, and for the company he takes the irreplaceable Cape, although if the mission in space ends. However, Cape returns alive, and it is the captain who falls under the hand.
It is exposed to the sun's rays, which are especially hot at this time of the year near the Sun. At the same time, while the captain is grilling, a psychologist - a lover of sunbathing - yells at him on the radio - what, they say, do you see that they open only a 3.5% curtain for me?
An Asian student is punished even tougher than a bully-non-teacher, he is sentenced to real punishment - to get stuck with antidepressants and sleep more. And, on a broken second ship they fly to the first. With which something strange is happening.
Firstly, it is serviceable, but the computer and crew burned out. But there are no spare parts on the ships - it burned out, and goodbye.
Secondly, the captain recorded a message saying that we refused to save humanity because we believed in God. How one contradicts the other is unclear.
Thirdly, the ship suddenly undocks, and the inspection team is trapped, with one spacesuit. One of the autronauts claims that the suit is for Cape, and the new captain says no. During a debate about this, Cape himself, mentioned in the 3rd person, is in a spacesuit and looks at the new captain as an empty place, as if to say - I have a reservation.
Astronauts decide to fly through outer space, some in a spacesuit, some without spacesuits, and somehow it succeeds. But then in the ship there is a problem with the air - in order to complete the mission, one must sacrifice someone. The obvious candidate, an Asian loser, doesn’t live a few hours before opening, opening his own veins. Cape is accused of inevitable, and resolved, in general, death, he does not tolerate insult, and another scuffle follows.
But oxygen is still not enough: it turns out that some unaccounted passenger on the ship breathes quietly. Here we come to the main intrigue of the film - the crazy charred captain who climbed onto the ship. He spoils the mission little by little, but his friends still fly a bomb to the Sun, and Cape manually explodes it.
After 7 minutes on Earth, snowball players rejoice.
The end.
In my opinion, it turned out to be an excellent space comedy, and I recommend everyone to watch this film, even at rewind.
But I would like to discuss the technical aspects of such missions.
1. How to help the Sun burn brighter? ..
Within the framework of existing scientific theories, little can help it burn without throwing synthesis fuel into the furnace. Therefore, it is easier to fly closer and bask there, or look for another star.
2. How to fly close to the stars?
It is clear that we need a shield that will cover from radiation in all ranges, while it does not melt itself, and does not transfer heat to residential modules through connecting structural elements. Perhaps a breakthrough in materials science and the construction of complex crystalline structures from carbon will help, but in how many years will we achieve such success? I would like to hope that before the Sun goes out, or something catastrophic happens on Earth.
3. What engines are needed for such flights?
When flying to the Sun, you only need to slow down the movement in the Earth's orbit, and the ship will be attracted to the star. This is not a problem with modern chemical engines, but here in the film was supposed, in addition to other amenities, also a return to Earth. This would require the expenditure of large fuel reserves, and obviously not possible on low-power engines such as ionic. In addition, in that direction they flew with the shield forward, and for using a jet engine it would be necessary to open the nozzle to the rays, or to move the shield on its side, and set the thrust vector at an angle to the star, which will reduce efficiency.
4. What can be found useful in the stars?
In the photosphere there are hot gases, closer to the center heavy elements are synthesized, down to iron, and people are interested in substances starting with iron. However, I admit that once astronauts will fly up to the stars to pump hydrogen.
I am pleased to listen to a variety of opinions.
The plot is briefly as follows.
Obviously, millions (billions?) Of years have passed on Earth, and the sun is fading. In order to shine brighter, he undoubtedly needed the help of earthlings - they think so, at least. Neither the relocation to another exoplanet, nor the movement of the Earth into a closer orbit, nor the terraforming of Mercury or Venus, were obviously considered - or were rejected as insufficiently ambitious. Only mending the sun, only hardcore. And manually - automation for wimps.
To mend the Sun, the whole Earth was dumped, and they collected a mega-bomb from fissile materials, which the physicist Cape proudly calls “his” in his introduction. Obviously, because he, along with her, was sent to the Sun on a ship, which was covered in front by a protective “umbrella”. Water recovery is carried out on the ship, there is an oxygen regeneration garden, but they did not learn how to grow food in this garden - although it would seem that planting potatoes in the same garden also begs.
But there is a virtual reality lounge for relaxation, and some other solarium, which astronauts use for tanning and regular inspection of the Sun. The more radiation the filter passes, the more pleasant it is to look at the sun. At the beginning of the film, a ship psychologist asks the computer to open a 4% filter for him. The computer breaks down, like a 1st year student, and does not give 4%, under the pretext that you are going to go blind. Then, thinking, guilty agrees to give 3.5%, but only quickly. The psychologist is happy, though by the middle of the film some spots are covered.
The ship approaches the Sun, and gradually flies up to Mercury. Due to the solar wind, the ability to send mail to Earth will soon disappear. We must hurry, but there is only one camera for shooting. She is occupied by the physicist Cape, and for half an hour, she is cruelly crucified by relatives that he is flying to the Sun, and that he is, as it were, a hero, although there is no information about the heroic acts committed to this moment in the film.
As a result, the next crew member does not have time to send news to relatives. Then he decides to engage in non-regulation and inflicts beatings on Cape (although, in general, Cape has the privileges of being the “owner of the bomb” — throughout the film, including to senior ranks). It should be noted that discipline, in principle, is not honored by crew members, people are creative, and they can be put into the snout at almost any time, regardless of whether there is a reason.
The team almost encourages such behavior of the astronauts (the girl at the remote condescendingly notes - they say, again, stupid males got hooked), and the captain defiantly detaches himself from any managerial and educational activity.
In this case, delegating educational functions - a surprise - to the psychologist. The psychologist this non-employee (who could cause damage to equipment and the disability of a key specialist - disrupting the mission to save humanity) punishes ... with correctional labor? What are you talking about, sometimes only women work on a ship in the oxygen garden! No, for an unregulated man they punish a couple of hours of the rest room, and having defended the term on one foot, the offender is released with a clear conscience.
Suddenly, the signal of the previous ship is caught. By the way, according to the plot, one more mega-bomb cannot be made, because on Earth there is no longer any raw materials for this. And so the first ship flew with the same mission and with the same bomb, did not fly, and there is no news from it. But this did not stop people from sending a second ship.
By tradition, the captain is no longer responsible for deciding whether to fly to the first ship. He simply interrupts the meeting with the phrase: “Alexander Druz answers!” Sorry, the brilliant physicist of Cape.
A brilliant physicist goes to his computer, which looks more like a magic mirror without a keyboard. The computer responds to voice requests. Cape asks the computer, but not about the flight path to the old ship, but about the main problem, about which it would be nice to deal even on Earth.
“My light is a mirror, what will happen when we put a bomb on the Sun?” Will help?
- I wish I could find out! - the computer answers.
Cape interprets the computer’s response as a 1/2 probability (either help or not), and adds to the captain that if there are 2 bombs, by the sum of the events this is 3/4, from probability theory. However, I already wrote this about probability theory from myself, and he said, they say, “two bombs are anyway better than one” - our brilliant physicist avoids turning to science, and more and more applies poetry. So, for example, he poetically explains to the girl the principle of the bomb, and in order to make an additional impression on her, he does not hesitate to insert a key into the bomb and slightly twist the starter.
The captain, as promised, supports Cape, not listening to the arguments. Change the course of the ship entrusted to an Asian student, and go about their business.
It takes some time. And then, not a cloud of thunder! The ship turned to the Sun on the wrong side and is roasting! An Asian student who seems to have got onto the ship as the captain’s nephew tears his hair and screams that he’s screwed up (the professional term of American astronauts), although everyone morally supports him and says that roasting the ship is an everyday thing. The captain, it seems, realizes that it would be nice to control the student, and out of guilt he goes into space to repair the “umbrella”, and for the company he takes the irreplaceable Cape, although if the mission in space ends. However, Cape returns alive, and it is the captain who falls under the hand.
It is exposed to the sun's rays, which are especially hot at this time of the year near the Sun. At the same time, while the captain is grilling, a psychologist - a lover of sunbathing - yells at him on the radio - what, they say, do you see that they open only a 3.5% curtain for me?
An Asian student is punished even tougher than a bully-non-teacher, he is sentenced to real punishment - to get stuck with antidepressants and sleep more. And, on a broken second ship they fly to the first. With which something strange is happening.
Firstly, it is serviceable, but the computer and crew burned out. But there are no spare parts on the ships - it burned out, and goodbye.
Secondly, the captain recorded a message saying that we refused to save humanity because we believed in God. How one contradicts the other is unclear.
Thirdly, the ship suddenly undocks, and the inspection team is trapped, with one spacesuit. One of the autronauts claims that the suit is for Cape, and the new captain says no. During a debate about this, Cape himself, mentioned in the 3rd person, is in a spacesuit and looks at the new captain as an empty place, as if to say - I have a reservation.
Astronauts decide to fly through outer space, some in a spacesuit, some without spacesuits, and somehow it succeeds. But then in the ship there is a problem with the air - in order to complete the mission, one must sacrifice someone. The obvious candidate, an Asian loser, doesn’t live a few hours before opening, opening his own veins. Cape is accused of inevitable, and resolved, in general, death, he does not tolerate insult, and another scuffle follows.
But oxygen is still not enough: it turns out that some unaccounted passenger on the ship breathes quietly. Here we come to the main intrigue of the film - the crazy charred captain who climbed onto the ship. He spoils the mission little by little, but his friends still fly a bomb to the Sun, and Cape manually explodes it.
After 7 minutes on Earth, snowball players rejoice.
The end.
In my opinion, it turned out to be an excellent space comedy, and I recommend everyone to watch this film, even at rewind.
But I would like to discuss the technical aspects of such missions.
1. How to help the Sun burn brighter? ..
Within the framework of existing scientific theories, little can help it burn without throwing synthesis fuel into the furnace. Therefore, it is easier to fly closer and bask there, or look for another star.
2. How to fly close to the stars?
It is clear that we need a shield that will cover from radiation in all ranges, while it does not melt itself, and does not transfer heat to residential modules through connecting structural elements. Perhaps a breakthrough in materials science and the construction of complex crystalline structures from carbon will help, but in how many years will we achieve such success? I would like to hope that before the Sun goes out, or something catastrophic happens on Earth.
3. What engines are needed for such flights?
When flying to the Sun, you only need to slow down the movement in the Earth's orbit, and the ship will be attracted to the star. This is not a problem with modern chemical engines, but here in the film was supposed, in addition to other amenities, also a return to Earth. This would require the expenditure of large fuel reserves, and obviously not possible on low-power engines such as ionic. In addition, in that direction they flew with the shield forward, and for using a jet engine it would be necessary to open the nozzle to the rays, or to move the shield on its side, and set the thrust vector at an angle to the star, which will reduce efficiency.
4. What can be found useful in the stars?
In the photosphere there are hot gases, closer to the center heavy elements are synthesized, down to iron, and people are interested in substances starting with iron. However, I admit that once astronauts will fly up to the stars to pump hydrogen.
I am pleased to listen to a variety of opinions.