Polar (2019)

[Polar (2019)]

Given the pain of the polar vortex, please review this painful  Netflix January release. Because Lady Gaga and Madonna are the right stepping stones to making an action packed movie. 

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Here are some of my nerd notes.

 

- The Earth moves. Those satellites appear stationary? Like a web around the planet, but what happens when the planet moves and rotates? How can one be over Afghanistan FOREVER?

 

 

 

Edited: Uhoh. I said "Bill Pullman" when I meant "Bill Paxton." Jason and Paul F. are going to be so mad at me!

 

This is easily explained by using geosynchronous orbits for the satellites. https://en.wikipedia...nchronous_orbit

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How much junk is in space.

Well you could assume not a lot. But if you think like Paul and Adam, you would be very wrong.

 

very. Here is a nice map of all the junk in space, a half second google search turned up a nice interactive map at stuffin.space (yes that is its web site).