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Title:	Arcana Caelestia
Notice:	Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:	NETRIX::thomas

Created:	Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1300
Total number of notes:	18728

795.0. "The Philadelphia Experiment" by HAGGIS::IRVINE (I hate Boomer .008 Guage!) Fri Jun 02 1989 05:42

    HAs anyone got any opinions on the film "The Philidelphia Experiment".
    
    I rented the film last night and although I new the bases of the
    story, one part of the film left me with a question.
    
    SPOILER ALERT
    
    When the ship re-materialised, a number of the crew were depicted
    as being "merged" with the infrastructure of the ship.  If the ship
    it'self came back without any distortion, why did members of the
    crew materialise as part of the infrastructure?  
    
    If this was the case, then the re-assembly of the atoms of the ship
    should not have resulted with the crew being part of the ship as
    they were not part of the origonal pattern.
    
    Bob

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795.1		OASS::MDILLSON	Generic Personal Name	`Fri Jun 02 1989 12:14`	3
	Read extra special-effects and gross-out potential for teen audience. Problem has no basis in known physics, but, how many movies follow the rules of science?
795.2	Bad book, worse movie...	EDCS::WRIGHT	and miles to go before I sleep.	`Fri Jun 02 1989 13:19`	12
	The movie is based on a book by the same name. I've watched the movie and read the book. The books better, which is not saying much. The authors from what I remember (yes it was written by 2 people) went into a fair description of why the men were stuck into the ship... grins, clark.
795.3		STRATA::RUDMAN	Caviler,n. A critic of our own work.	`Tue Jun 06 1989 15:00`	13
	re -.1 THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT (Project Invisibility) was written by W.L. Moore and Charles (Triangle) Berlitz. It takes the "known" facts about the project and speculates a lot. The movie is Hollywood's version. I liked the movie--not destined to be a classic but it kept my interest. Typical SF theme--an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. (True, the hero got a lot farther than he should have, but that's typical H-wood. What didn't you like about it? Don
795.4	The book is nothing like the movie!...	TADSKI::WAINE	Linda	`Wed Jun 07 1989 13:55`	14
	The movie was very loosely based on the book. The book was NOT about the adventures of one of the sailors projected in time, but presented information in an attempt to prove that the experiment did occur... I personally liked the book....thought it was interesting. I had discussed this incident about 10 years ago with a couple of physicists (I was in college, majoring in physics) and asked their opinion of the book. One of the physicists, who had met Einstein, believed that the incident did occur and that Einstein had destoyed a lot of his work because he felt that mankind was not ready for it.... Linda
795.5	A DEC plug!	BLKWDO::ZICCARDI	Not Just Another Weenie	`Wed Sep 20 1989 00:27`	9
	Did anybody notice in the movie, when the hero was watching TV in the hotel room, there was a commercial for the Digital Rainbow, with TWO mocro-processors! I got a real kick out of that. Sorry, back to the real topic. mIkEy Z.
795.6		NEEPS::IRVINE	Bob Irvine @EDA	`Tue Oct 10 1989 08:49`	6
	Now that you mention it, I did notice this... seems so old now don't they! BOb