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   Re: Review: The Martian   
   13 Jun 16 16:19:59   
   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Dimensional Traveler   
    wrote:   
   > On 6/12/2016 7:20 PM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > > In article <1moqwhc.1xgx709sknz4gN%nmassello@yahoo.com>,   
   > > nmassello@yahoo.com says...   
   > >> J. Clarke  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> Chartering a Vomit Comet for a private event costs about 0.15 percent of   
   > >>> the budget of "The Martian".   
   > >>   
   > >> You mean chartering it for long enough to construct a set in it and film   
   > >> in 30 second chunks?   
   > >   
   > > When you rent an airplane you pay for the flight time, not the sitting   
   > > on the ramp time.  Flying is what costs.   
   > >   
   > Including the time it could be flying, earning money, instead of sitting   
   > in the hanger with a construction crew mucking up the interior?   
      
   The set can be pre-built and then simply re-assembled inside the plane,   
   rather than spending weeks building the set from scratch inside the   
   plane. Done right, it would take less time to reassemble the set than   
   to refuel the plane.   
      
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