Quote from: SM on Mar 02, 2012, 12:45:32 AM
Be interesting to see if and how this might tie into the Blade Runner universe where FTL travel is mundane by 2019.
SM...believe me, I am not trying to be a contrarian...but what exactly in the Blade Runner film (exclusively), provides unambiguous confirmation that FTL travel has been achieved, much less "mundane"?
One can easily explain the terms "off-world colonies" as being settlements within our solar system (e.g. Moon, Mars, Europa, Enceladus, Ganymede, Titan, etc.).
Rutger Hauer's wonderful line about watching "attack ships burning off the shoulder Orion", actually only makes sense if he is speaking of observing spaceships within our solar system, that happen to align with our perspective of the Constellation of Orion. When viewed from another stellar system, constellations that we identify, as viewed from our system (Sol), are completely distorted and lose all associations we associate with them. In other words, the name and shape of what we call "Constellations", is specific, and exclusive to our particular perspective, within our Solar system. As you move light-years away, to even the nearest stars, our familiar stellar alignments (which we call "constellations) warp and distort. The further from Sol, the greater the divergence. Yeah, I know I am sounding like a wet blanket...but I am just doing my part to keep any pretense of Science...honest.
Does that mean that Rutger Hauer realized this when he purportedly ad-libbed this line...of course not.
I am just saying, that his comment could still be explained without assuming FTL travel, or assuming we achieved interstellar travel.
Of course, there may be something else stated within the film that I have forgotten...