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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: SF movie explosions
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Date: Sun, 7-Apr-85 23:13:50 EST
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> From: Mike Caplinger <mike@rice.ARPA>
> 
> Alastair Milne points out that the explosions in SILENT RUNNING are
> instances of that rare thing, a convincing \in vacuo/ explosion in an
> SF movie.  Unfortunately, I can't think of even ONE other example.  Can
> anyone else?

A couple:

(1) The "expulsion" of Dave Boman from the excursion pod in 2001
(2) Any explosion in Star Trek: the Motion Picture
(3) The explosion of the klingon vessel in the Star Trek 
    episode: Day of the Dove

And that may be the complete list...

...it is something that has irritated me in the past also...

Oh, and incidently: if the microphone recording an explosion in a 
      vacuum is hit by a "puff" of expanding gas from the explosion, or
      a shock wave of more violent intensity, there will, in fact,
      be a noise...

Also incidently: why are there so many explosions in space in all
      these movies anyway? --- just a thought...


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