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I'm not sure that this would actually be all that far fetched in a very large spaceship for moisture to collect and rain down in a spaceship like the Nostromo, although probably not to the extent shown in the movie. I used to work in the large dirigible hangars in Tustin, Ca. The cement floors down the middle of the hangars were always wet in the summer because water vapor would collect and condense inside at the top of the hangar domes and form a continious dripping down onto the floor below. On some days, it was almost like being in a light rain. If someone had to work in the middle of a hangar, they would often get wet from the constant dripping from the roof above.
In any type of large complex structure such as a large spaceship, there would be a vast array of heaters, AC units, heat exchangers, motors, gearing, fluid lines, etc, all of which would generate condensation, and/or heat, and water vapor which would all rise and get trapped at the top of large open areas. Also, things simply leak. If the existing air moisture removal equipment (the types which exists in every large naval vessel engine room already today) were to fail or run at reduced efficiency guaranteed the place would get very wet.
The water is easily explained. You're talking about the room Brett dies in. That room is basically a chamber that holds one of the landing gear. You can actually see it behind him. That gear and that room were exposed to the different temperatures on the planet. The water is just an extreme case of condensation after the ship took off combined with age and lack of maintenance. Or more realistically, they had other things to worry about. First the damage to more important systems and then later the 8 foot tall Xenomorph XX121 that was stalking them all.
This is actually very clever marketing. Space Tarzan character for G3M/G8M is about to be released. And Space Tarzan is gonna love swinging from those cables with his space chimp !
I think the water in Alien,and the same for most films where they do a wet down..is it just looks cool on film,Alien has so much backlighting going on that the wet look creates some pretty cool looking highlights.
and the reason for cables in my scifi environments..is they just look cool,it's up to you guys to create your own story around the environments.
and as mentioned they are seperate props.so switch them off if you don't like them.it may be a trope to add cables to a scifi set,ditto for adding lots of little LED lights but it works well visualy and creates the 'feel' that I'm looking for.
...and screens
do we really think in the future everything will be full of LED screens?
maybe holograms but likely the end user will have an implant in their brains and bypass the optic nerves altogether
Thank you.
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in Alien and other movies the below decks were very hot areas too so lots of condensation down below and being old ships and often just patched up
It is no longer one peace. (it's a Russian/English pun)
I really am a retired sailor, I served on two nuclear submarines. The issue with cables going through water-tight hatches is the inability to shut the hatch during a flooding casualty which puts the ship in danger because the flooding cannot be contained. I would imagine that loss of hull integrity would be the matching scenario in space, the danger of a fouled hatch being the inabilty to isolate decompression to a single compartment.
In terms of Stonemason's latest environment, looks really good! Keep up the good work.
do we really think in the future everything will be full of LED screens?
No one knows. The future is NEVER easy to predict and is always a projection forward of present time(s).
That's why you can tell a sci-fi movie from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond. Even you - you're sitting here thinking holograms could be a thing of the future, where they may very well...not....be..used...at all.
If a sheet of paper becomes a "tablet" and the projection system becomes (more) workable, your 'compuer screen' might be a projection from a port at the end of your keyboard...or even your keyboard is a projection onto a touch-surface.
We have that now. Everything projected onto a flat surface. Remember home projector - entertainment systems- they are/were STILL bigger than the biggest flatscreens.
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I just rewatched Blade Runner last night, and it took place....three months ago. Yeah, we're not quite there on flying cars, or replicants, or fully three-dimensional imaging that you can navigate around like a scene in DS.
Sometimes, one of the funniest details about futurism is what old tech they keep around. Look at 5th Element: the climax of the movie centers around using matches.
WHAT! No micro-plutonium reactors on a stick?
There's already eye pointing lazory thingies (technical term) that project a screen directly into your eyeball without implants though! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display )
So probably something along those lines.
It was designed for a five-year lifespan. It lived for fifteen.
dunno but if not, convert to figure and add bones for rigging.
I've even rigging buttons and levers on the control panels on other props like Antaris Starship
I blame Alien. They had dripping water and almost zero light. Granted it was a seldom used cargo hold but a starship generates enough extra power to light a planet. Just cheap theatrics to make it scary. I fell asleep.
'Artistic choice' is the only reason anyone really needs for any kind of explanation. If it fulfils the vision and design goals, then it fits, and the artist definitely doesn't have to explain himself for it.
As for pools and drips of water showing up somewhere in a spaceship, it can also depend on how large a given space is, too. I remember reading many years ago that that huge assembly-building at NASA was litrereally big enough inside that it sometimes had clouds forming inside, had its own weather system even, and at times it was actually raining inside the building from that.
In the sci-fi spoof "Galaxy Quest", there's a scene where the protagonists have to run through a set of "chompers" that have been built into a spacecraft for no reason that anyone can explain.
According to Wikipedia, the "chompers" were actually a reference to a scene from "Event Horizon" featuring some whirling knives, but they could stand in for any of the other random OSHA violations that lazy screenwriters like to build into their spacecraft to add some cheap tension.