[300/365] Mars
Oct. 27th, 2019 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistLast night and today, I've been watching this weird Netflix thing called Mars. It's some mediocre near-future SF about the first human flight to Mars, mixed in with some actual present-day (as of the time this was made, three years ago) footage from real documentaries talking about Mars.
It's such a clever conceit, but I'm getting frustrated at the quality of the acting and the frankly tedious disaster-movie style of the fictional bits. I've found myself sad when the documentary bits stop and we get back to the bad acting, heh. It does have a cool theme song sung by Nick Cave, though.
It has also leddiffrentcolours and I to talk about GPS on Mars, though, and at one point I was about to say the word "geosynchronous" but then realized it'd be wrong and couldn't for the life of me remember the Greek for "Mars" (because "geo" is Greek for "Earth" so by analogy...). Which is a sign of how tired I was, frankly: I think I knew this when I was about five because I was an astronomy-obsessed grade-schooler. Luckily diffrentcolours saved me with "Areosynchronous?" Later, I think still pondering GPS for Mars, he looked it up and yes, "areostationary" and "areosynchronous" are the words for those things when talking about Mars. So there's a thing I learned today.
It's such a clever conceit, but I'm getting frustrated at the quality of the acting and the frankly tedious disaster-movie style of the fictional bits. I've found myself sad when the documentary bits stop and we get back to the bad acting, heh. It does have a cool theme song sung by Nick Cave, though.
It has also led
diffrentcolours and I to talk about GPS on Mars, though, and at one point I was about to say the word "geosynchronous" but then realized it'd be wrong and couldn't for the life of me remember the Greek for "Mars" (because "geo" is Greek for "Earth" so by analogy...). Which is a sign of how tired I was, frankly: I think I knew this when I was about five because I was an astronomy-obsessed grade-schooler. Luckily diffrentcolours saved me with "Areosynchronous?" Later, I think still pondering GPS for Mars, he looked it up and yes, "areostationary" and "areosynchronous" are the words for those things when talking about Mars. So there's a thing I learned today.