Funnily enough, I saw Sunshine a few weeks ago in the same lecture hall where that Jumper discussion took place — it was one of the flicks in this year’s MIT Science Fiction Marathon. I sat in the front row with some friends who’d brought liquor to shoot every time the science turned stupid. My impression of the movie? Well, it’s all kind of fuzzy. . . . The biggest problem I had, however, was not with a particular technical detail, but rather with an attitude: when you send a mission into space in order to save the Earth, you should crew it with astronauts instead of actors. Trained professionals would not have a mission where only one man knows how the payload they’re supposed to deliver actually works, trained professionals would not let a critical mission maneuver depend upon one guy’s arithmetic, etc., etc. To adopt a comparison made by Russell Blackford, they sent the crew from the Rama sequels instead of the original.