Re: [GENESIS] Genesis impacts ground straight in. No chute deployment!

From: Scott Hedrick (dinehnm_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:50:00 -0400

"Jonathan Silverlight" <jsilverlight@spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid> wrote
in message news:y3mM+uEtHAQBFwas@merseia.fsnet.co.uk...
>And it's so much easier
> than an original story.

Heck, it was *original* to stop the bomb with 8 seconds left, instead of
only 1. Reid was right, hardly worth getting worked up with that much time
left :)

This was parodied pretty good in "Galaxy Quest"- Tim Allen does what's
needed to stop the self-destruct sequence with, what, 24 seconds left, but
it doesn't actually stop until there's one second left (because it's more
dramatic that way), thus giving him an opportunity to leave a yellow stain
on the floor :)