Cowboy Bebop Vs. Reality

r4m3n_n00dlesr4m3n_n00dles Join Date: 2003-01-16 Member: 12332Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">The Columbia Space Shuttle</div> As I was watching Cowboy Bebop, my favorite anime, session 19, "Wild Horses" today, I noticed something really odd. The space shuttle that Doohan rebuilt was the Columbia, the one that broke into a thousand peices over Texas. Even funnier, is that in the episode, the Columbia ends up crashing to the earth in part due to "most of heat-resistant tiles [peeling] off."
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  • r4m3n_n00dlesr4m3n_n00dles Join Date: 2003-01-16 Member: 12332Members
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  • RyoOhkiRyoOhki Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
    Well Cowboy Bebop was made prior to the Columbia disaster. So I believe we can safely rule out any allegations of poor taste.

    The shuttle breaking apart was probably put in for 2 reasons. Firstly, the shuttle fleet we have currently is getting quite old. The vessals are sorely in need of replacements. Secondly, Bebop is set some centuries into the future, so any 20th century shuttles that survived that long would be in abysmal condition and so obselete one would have to be truely desperate to fly in one. Thus it broke apart.

    On a side note, Bebop is still my most beloved anime series.
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    Clever. No doubt that some people will be offended, but nobody has the right not to be offended. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • r4m3n_n00dlesr4m3n_n00dles Join Date: 2003-01-16 Member: 12332Members
    edited February 2004
    I’m not implying any poor taste, if anything Bebop does a good job of romanticizing the space shuttles.

    It’s just kind of ironic.

    (Bebop was produced in 1998)
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