kvmpositive.blogg.se - Heinlein beyond this horizon

There was probably one in Friday as well (it said "the door contracted"). Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon had a dilating door. The Guns of Pluto by Allen Steele opens with an airlock's "sphincter door" irising open to admit our hero, making it look like Captain Future has been used for an Ass Shove.Presumably this was either a matter of personal preference on the owner's part or because the filmmakers couldn't get a fancier visual effect to look right. In particular, the windows stand out, as they are not made of a solid substance, but instead seem to be Some Kind of Force Field, marking a pretty stark contrast with the doors. Even stranger when compared with the Ascetic Aesthetic design of the rest of the house. This, of course, is taking place in the entirely virtual world where Cool, but Inefficient is king. The interior of Flynn's house in the Grid has obviously visible hinges and door knobs on all of the doors, such that they wouldn't be out of place in a regular modern house.

Whereas the Star Trek universe does other things (see below), the Starfleet facility on Delta Vega has a normal exterior door with a panic bar.

Amusingly averted in Star Trek (2009).

Problem was they often led to walls with doors that opened upward.

In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the Enterprise halls were designed with various decorative pipes along the ceilings.

"Close the blast doors! Open the blast doors!!"

The doors on the Death Star in Star Wars.

However, said door only stays open if the lever is held down - an unlucky redshirt finds out the hard way as the door shuts in while he's halfway through, crushing him from the waist.

Masked Avengers: The Masked Gang's lair has one of these doors leading to its inner sanctums, opened by pushing a lever.

Said sensor is located three metres away, and elevated by about a foot, meaning that it was utterly useless to the Dalek inhabitants. However, for some reason, that's just not absurd enough, and one of the doors has to open with a pressure sensor. Who and the Daleks has doors that swing into the sides.

Played for Laughs in the film of Barbarella, when Barbarella is wearing (little more than) an animal-skin suit with a long tail and the tail gets trapped in the closing iris.

So in this case it was a Contracting Door.

A crewman gets crushed when his arm is caught as he tries to dive through the Dilating Door as it closes.

Ordinary hatches slide upward or sideways. This makes sense assuming that their intended purpose is to regulate air flow through the ship and not to be pressure-tight in case of a hull breech.

Alien: The sections of the air duct system on the starship Nostromo are separated by dilating hatches.