You know how they did it, right?
Gene Kelly would make it look a little more athletic.
And Ginger Rogers could…
No, no, I’m not going to say it!
I assume so. Like the carousel in 2001.
I mean, I’d liked to have seen it for the logistics. Keeping everyone coordinated.
Yeah, basically the room was built inside a big rotating drum.
And yet the Death Star was filled with kilometers-deep vertical shafts without even safety railings, instead of having them be horizontal tunnels.
Maybe they were “vertical” so that they could get a convection current flowing.
Billie Eilish one-upped Astaire and did it on a live TV broadcast.
When the Millennium Falcon lands on the Death Star, it’s clear that it approaches the DS’s equator, and touches down on a flat surface with ‘up’ toward the north pole, as it were.
It occurred to me sometime later that that’s a bad design. The Death Star, by virtue of its mass, would have some natural gravity pulling toward the center. Rather than have its levels be like parallel slices, they should have been concentric spheres.
Thanks to YouTube, what the audience saw vs. what the crew saw.
Real-world interjection: We manipulate electromagnetism, basically, by moving charges around. The equivalent operation for gravity would be to move masses around. It’s just that, because of the relative strengths of those two forces, the necessary masses would be very inconveniently large.
Or quark-matter dense at any rate.
Something something something personal tractor beams to keep you stable within the starship something something something… maybe??
Gravichlorians.
But you don’t mention them until thirty years into the franchise history.
So cheap and ubiquitous that some places had antigrav on their couches and ottomans.
I’m a little ashamed because it wasn’t me that noticed it, but in the commentary track I finally heard last night.
Men in Black, Kay and Jay are interviewing Beatrice. She offers lemonade, Jay takes a sip, makes a face, and sets down the glass.
There’s no sugar in the house.
I saw that first time i watched on Cable or DVD, but not in the theater,
I always got the impression from the look on Will Smith’s face that the lemonade was too sweet, not the other way around. And this is several days after the bug took off in his brand new Edgar suit, so there was time for her to go out and buy more sugar
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I’m not sure she was in a mind to.