Reviews

The basic idea is that a small town makes huge sums of money sabotaging cars of passing motorists, and then framing them for crimes ranging from grand theft all the way up to murder. *Everybody* in the town is in on the scam, and no one in the higher courts of California seems to have noticed. Will Rockford be able to clear his name and right the wrongs? In the end, unsatisfying and silly, since a call to NBC or the LA Times would have been the obvious move all along. Considerably less credible than the 5 episodes prior "Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company", which required only dishonesty on the part of land company.

I recently reviewed the documentary, Earthstorm, narrated by Stephen Baldwin, and I wish to show my appreciation for the great feats the characters achieved...

**Jessica Heafey as Major Rachel Fine.

flies shuttle with joystick from liftoff directly to moon in less than 20 minutes.

jettisons main fuel tank (usually kept until orbit) at the same time as boosters - tank (which would be full of fuel) does not blow up and shuttle does not fall back to earth.

avoids asteroids and large sections of broken-up moon - again, using joystick.

flies shuttle into middle of the moon with joystick - "it's gonna be dark down there" says the cap-com - but, amazingly, it is not too dark.

flies shuttle back from moon having jettisoned the new nuclear engines and the main fuel tank - no doubt this was done by rerouting fuel from the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) thruster fuel tanks to main engines - usually this would power main engines for a few seconds only, so she must has substantially increased fuel efficiency of shuttle by a factor of some billions.

**Stephen Baldwin as John Redding.

fattest person in space.

walks straight from space shuttle cabin to cargo bay.

coolly stands in cargo bay while shuttle is navigated into center of the moon - not even holding onto anything!

single-handedly holds nuclear weapon steady in hold - ensuring its safely as shuttle takes moon rock hit.

single-handedly correctly judges nuclear blast and thereby welds cracked moon back together by newly discovered magnetic process.

**mission control

successful launch of shuttle with no-gos from flight and booster.

first launch of shuttle in severe thunderstorm.

communicates with shuttle while it is on a ledge in the middle of the moon.

built expressive computer voice with ability to detect recovery of moon fault!

Pro: mission control has backup generator power - but (con - sorry!) it does not kick in automatically - and then goes out again at the crucial magnetic nuclear detonation stage.

**Boeing/NASA.

developed nuclear pulse engines for shuttle - which can be heard even in space!

installed artificial gravity on shuttle - no one strapped in while in orbit and on moon approach.

first torpedo-tube style magnetic nuclear launch from shuttle.

substantially upgraded shuttle's durability - previously vulnerable to foam and ice hits, here is can take extensive hits from moon rocks.

produced astonishingly maneuverable shuttle with high fuel economy (see above).

installed very-useful side windows in cargo bay.

in a surprise move, deployed shuttle without bothering to stock it with any spacesuits; also, this "specialized" shuttle has only one deck level and only 3 crew-members.

**Overall, pretty harmless and overall enjoyable movie, especially if you are a dweeb who likes spotting mistakes. It's a scifi (syfy?) original so you shouldn't expect Citizen Kane....