tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530535.post6945442359390367017..comments2024-03-18T18:40:02.885+10:30Comments on SPACE AGE ARCHAEOLOGY: The psychological effects of Skylab: divine retributionDr Space Junkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16690111452618194402noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530535.post-36780407098946678882011-10-03T21:27:48.096+10:302011-10-03T21:27:48.096+10:30Hi Arshdeep, glad you got in touch! Are you the s...Hi Arshdeep, glad you got in touch! Are you the same person as the child psychiatrist? Really interesting that no-one you knew slept outside that night. Would love to know more about why you were inspired to make your film based around Skylab. Top work by the way!Dr Space Junkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16690111452618194402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530535.post-484499122688195802011-10-03T09:09:57.745+10:302011-10-03T09:09:57.745+10:30BTW - I was trying to show a child's ego-centr...BTW - I was trying to show a child's ego-centric world view i.e. everything happens around me and because of me. We reattribute causality more appropriately as our knowledge of the workings of our environment grow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530535.post-7598717677435467002011-10-03T09:08:33.213+10:302011-10-03T09:08:33.213+10:30Hi! Guys, I am Arshdeep the writer of this film. I...Hi! Guys, I am Arshdeep the writer of this film. I am very impressed with Dr. Space Junk's review of the film. Thank you for looking at it in such an involved way. I remember as a boy that in those days the radio news in India were full of possibility of Skylab falling on Indian soil. In those days sometimes people used to sleep out in the open e.g. rooftops, verandahs (with mosquito nets) and that night no one slept outside - at least amongst the people that I knew. Actually none of it fell in India. Pieces were scattered in Indian Ocean and Australia esp Esperance? a small town - a piece actually fell into someone's house while he was still in the house - no causalities were reported.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530535.post-49236719456904344472011-07-28T12:23:09.825+09:302011-07-28T12:23:09.825+09:30Not really - there was great uncertainty about whe...Not really - there was great uncertainty about where it would come down, and indeed some of it is in the Indian Ocean .... people had a perception of higher risk than such an event might elicit today because we are more familiar with controlled de-orbits, and no-one has died yet because space junk landed on them. Do I detect some thesis procrastination here??????Dr Space Junkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16690111452618194402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7530535.post-88543731312689157952011-07-27T18:40:31.838+09:302011-07-27T18:40:31.838+09:30An interesting metaphor, to be sure! But a touch o...An interesting metaphor, to be sure! But a touch of artistic licence about the impact footprint? Didn't the bulk of it disintegrate over Australia? I remember listeing to the radio late at night on that day in 1979, making notes furiously in longhand as Skylab met her end, and seeing the famous newstape of the burn-up over Perth, plus pieces recovered from the desert... MMike Adamsonnoreply@blogger.com