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How can the poor have engines with such energy efficiency & no medicine? Cannoli Send a noteboard - 21/08/2013 04:56:09 PM

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I gotta admit I was a little surprised by the poor defense systems the rich had to prevent ships coming through.

I learned from firefly that people in the future aren't good at thinking of security in three dimensions. The ability to fly sure is handy.


Look at a space shuttle launch and note that big thing under the shuttle. That's how much gas they need just to get into space. Notice absolutely NOTHING like that on the shuttles to Elysium? Breaking free of Earth's gravity is apparently no more difficult than taking off in an airplane. The advancement in energy production or storage or whatever is mind-boggling, but they can't handle simple allocation of resources? They actually have enough medicine stashed on Elysium to treat the entire "overpopulated" world?

The setting for this movie is a leftist's persecution fantasy. The sad part is, you can see places where they really seem to think they are being clever and/or subtle in getting their point across. This is like those indie movies Kirk Cameron stars in, but way more heavy handed and political.

Cannoli
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