Doctor Who

[nmg]

The distinctive "chirp-boing" noise of the proximity sensors on the roof of the module appears to have been lifted from 2001: A Space Odyssey; it's the noise of the proximity radar aboard the EVA pods on Discovery One.

My, I'm a geek.

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

It was also the distress signal from the escape pod in The Spy Who Loved Me.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

That was (IIRC) just a chirp, and not a chirp-boing.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

It might be there there was more than one type of chirp. There was definitely a "meep meep meep meep".

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Possibly. this [WAV] was the sound effect I was referring to.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Aha - the chirp IS the same as the one in TSWLM, but in TSWLM it didn't have the accompanying boing.

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Odd. That link took me to Amazon under someone else's affiliate code.

[lionsphil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's something seriously screwy with it, but copy-pasting the URL into Media Player Classic worked.

I suspect referer [sic] shenanigans.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Yes, you could well be right.

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

Dave?

[pinguthegreek.livejournal.com]

What did you think of it ?

[coffeeandtv0.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Along with chunks of Silent Running and I suspect a bit of Aliens

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

And the Andromeda Strain. And Event Horizon. And Alien. And The Thing.

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Just the "Awooga!" sound in half a dozen modern SF shows (including Who) is normally the Mac Alarm sound...

[kludge.livejournal.com]

Our nerdery was more of the science than the science-fiction type:

fides (as the doctor stands amid the burning metal struts after the explosion): "Uh, would the atmosphere on Mars support fire?"

Me (after "that's ten feet of solid steel!" and a back-of-the-envelope calculation): "Uh, so they couldn't bring bikes due to a weight constraint, but they brought a five thousand ton ceiling tile?"

[nmg.livejournal.com]

You think that's bad - have you worked out how big the launch vehicle(s) would have been?

The Apollo missions put 45 tonnes in a trans-lunar transfer orbit, and were able to put 15 tonnes of that on the surface of the moon and then bring 6 tonnes back to Earth. That required a launch vehicle with a wet mass of 3000 tonnes...