Pat Flannery writes:

David Spain wrote:
Well, I'd suggest a landing technology similar to that used for the Mars
Exploration Rovers would work well....

;-)


I never saw that movie, which was supposed to suck. Ever notice three odd
things about "Robinson Crusoe On Mars"? 1.) They abandon the Eleanor M
because it's decaying out of orbit... but somehow after they land it goes
right on orbiting, with an perigee that appears to be around 2,000 feet.

Maybe the Newtonian effect of jettisoning from the Eleanor M (along with the
reduced mass) was enough to inject it into a higher, stable orbit. Or maybe
one of the flaming meteor ball's gravitation pulled it into a stable orbit.
We all know Mars orbit is filled with flaming meteor balls right? Gee, Pat the
movie had to assume *some* level of knowledge on the part of the audience.
;-D

2.) At the end of the movie they are dying of thirst while walking around in
a snowstorm. Unless that's CO2 snow they could just eat it.

Or maybe they could have survived on filtered monkey ****! If only they'd used
Friday's pills and that monkey more effectively!


3.) Christopher Draper never makes the slightest attempt to determine if the
alien Friday might have a vagina rather than a penis. If "he" was actually
sort of a "she" this could change the whole timbre of the movie. Don't knock
this concept; if that had been Commander William Riker, that's the _first_
thing he would have checked. :-)

Pat

That surely would have cured him of dreaming about Batman!

;-)

Dave