Sunshine, or true meaning of the word solarisation

Picture1: Film poster

Picture2: Oxigen Generator


Thanks to a nice invitation of Castello Lopes Multimedia I had the fun to go to an avant-avant-premiere screening of the SF film "sunshine".

The film is OK.

I am not going to tell the story, but just to answer to my answers to a serie of question that crossed my mind during the projection.

Q - To lose communications BEFORE the orbit of Mercury. Isn't that completely preposterous

A - Yes with today Sun. Not necessarily with the altered Sun of the movie.

Q - How do they braked the ship after the gravitational slingshot at Mercury, to dock with Icarus I.

A - By heliobraking (cf. aerobraking, lithobraking)

Q- How could some one name Icarus I and Icarus II spaceships send to the sun

A- They are absolutely ignorant of the Greek mythology

Q- Any homage To Kubrik / Clarke

A- Several. First, the strange scenes near the end. Second, "2001", "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Friedrich Nietzsche", "God is dead". Third the solarisation.

Q- In the film the sun suffers strange phenomena. Wouldn't such phenomena be detectable in other stars?

A- No necessarily, if it is a rare and transient phase.