According to yr.no, the sun is up between 09:19 and 14:30 in Utsjoki today. The polar night doesn't arrive in Utsjoki until the last week of November.
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I would love to experience that.
In northern Scandinavia it gets reasonably bright anyway. There's still civil twilight for many hours and a significant difference between day and night. The midnight sun messes up your body clock more. While the midnight light is nice in spring, the return of the nights is a relief in late summer.
It's worse if there's not even nautical twilight, and aurora is as visible at noon as at midnight. But you need to get beyond 78 degrees latitude for that. To escape astronomical twilight you need to get above 84 degrees, which is beyond regular transport means. There are daily flights to 78N, though, even in mid winter, so that's within an abroad holiday budget for Europeans or overseas budget for the rest.
I've been up there in December many times, but one year I spent some days in a cabin without electricity just before Christmas. After a couple of days you begin to wish for a few minutes or at least a few seconds of daylight to do stuff that requires some light. Like, if you need to do some work or if you lose something, a paraffin lamp or a small flashlight is of limited use. You feel disabled. Things that would take seconds in daylight could take an hour in darkness. And the thought that it will be like that for a couple of months is somewhat annoying.
Anyway, it was amazing visually, and it didn't look "fake" like alot of the CGI these days- most of it, especially the ISS scenes, all looked convincing. The 3D was OK, although my glasses broke before the movie started and I had to run out and get a pair from the pile in the recycle bin. Whatever...
Thus, it was excellent except for
ridiculous exaggeration of the space-junk problem
ridiculous orbit of the debris and the fact that it isn't spreading out, and George Clooney just gives a very rough estimate of the length of the orbit of the debris but sure enough, he's exactly right.
kind of unnecessary back-story and "driving" metaphor from Sandra Bullock's character, and cheesy dialogue when she's alone, talking to herself, and other cheesy dialogue
She's on the ISS and there's debris everywhere and she just pushes herself through the station without a care in the world, not covering her face so a flying pen or paper or piece of metal doesn't hit her in the eye, and goes right past (or doesn't notice) the fire that later wreaks havoc...
when she ejects from the Soyuz into the Chinese station as it's starting to enter the atmosphere, she isn't affected by the atmosphere as she's swinging around looking for the opening
why the Chinese landing craft took 1 minute to eject. WHY? WHY? Did the Souyz have a 1 minute count-down timer before it ejected? I dont think it did
George Clooney's character really shouldn't have died- when he lets go he drifts away very very slowly. They would have been in place if he had held on to her; they were barely moving at that point.
It's still more realistic than most other sci-fi movies nowadays (aside from Europa report, although the ending to that was... well, that's another story)
Edited by werdnaforever - Sunday, 10.11.2013, 09:08
Yeah, there didn't seem to be much advertisement for it. I didn't hear about it either until someone brought it up on these forums a while back.
And actually on that note I finally got around to finding and watching it last night. Thought it was pretty enjoyable. Fairly good scientific accuracy and portrayal of scientists working on an exploratory mission. Much better than most hollywoodized space sci-fi of late. Cinematography/effects aren't that great but it actually works in the film's favor. Only complaint is the characters and plot seemed a little under-developed.
To me, this looks like a very pro-playstation video. First of all, the two race games look (to me at least) identical. No really, they do! Then, comparing Minecraft to Killzone? Seriously?
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