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The theory of the luminiferous aether was an attempt to explain light before Einstein's Theory of Relativity. By the way, the thing in the background is a HyperCard stack.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body_radiation.
This is a reference to the movie Blade Runner:
I've seen things... seen things you little
people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of
Orion bright as magnesium... I rode on the back decks of a blinker
and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser
Gate.This is yet another piece of physics nonsense, but Gainax weren't the inventors. It came from a Frederik Pohl story named "The Gold at the Starbow's End".
The word Amano uses for "alright", "yokutte", is only used by high class Japanese ladies in old movies. Normally, girls would say "iika" or "ii" instead.
This is about 1.4x the distance from Earth to the center of the
galaxy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec
The design is apparently based on a design from the manga
Submarine 707.
(quoting from the original source:
「ルクシオンの戦闘艇や救助艇のデザインは小沢さとる氏のマンガから。」)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Tadatsugu Hayakawa Toshio Azami ORIGINAL STORY CONCEPT Shin Unosawa Isamu Senda Toshio Okada SCREENPLAY Toshio Okada PRODUCED BY Minoru Takanashi Shiro Sasaki Hiroaki Inoue ART DIRECTION Shinji Higuchi Hideaki Anno CHARACTER DESIGN Haruhiko Mikimoto ANIMATION CHARACTER DESIGN Toshiyuki Kubowoka MUSIC Kohei Tanaka THEME SONG Vocals: Noriko Sakai Lyrics: Hiromi Mori Composer: Eiji Nishiki Arranger: Motoki Funayama MECHA & ROBOT DESIGN Kazutaka Miyatake Koichi Ohata ART DESIGN Masanori Kikuchi Hiroshi Sasaki DIRECTED BY Hideaki Anno
The name of the space station comes from an old production by Toei named "Captain Ultra".
One source says that Tatsumi Tashiro was the music director for Wings of Honneamise, but I can't find anything else backing it up. Jung Freud is from the names of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, two famous psychologists.
Linda Yamamoto was the name of a half-Swedish, half-Japanese singer in the 70s.
This is a parody of the Jacobini Meteoric Batting Style in the baseball manga Astro Kyoudan (アストロ球団).
The full name in Japanese is 無重進展積雲流八面鉄壁斜め西岸.
Mujuushinten Sekiun Ryu (the way of cumulus clouds moving
weightlessly/in zero gravity)
Hachimen Teppeki (surrounded by an iron wall)
Naname (slanted)
Seigan (a way of swordfighting aimed at the opponent's
eyes)
He's always at work and only comes home once a year, and even then he's in his uniform and leaves quickly. Japan is possibly the only country to have a problem of people working themselves to death. There were several famous cases in the 80s.
SCIENCE!
This is actually kind of odd; it implies that the space station has
artificial gravity stronger than that of the Moon, but it's never
mentioned that it does.
Noriko and Jung have the same birthday as Toshio Okada, the Otaking, who wrote Gunbuster's screenplay.
This is a combination of the Lorentz Transformation and the Doppler Effect. The object would appear to shrink and red (or blue) shift.
Taro Urashima is the Japanese equivalent of Rip Van Winkle. He was invited to the Dragon Palace by the Princess of the Sea for saving the life of a turtle on the beach. He stayed for theee months, but when he emerged, 300 years had passed.
Coach is talking about the effects of relativistic time dilation. Other science fiction that features this as a major plot point are "The Forever War" and the anime OVA "Voices of a Distant Star" by Makoto Shinkai.
Also, Keitaro of Love Hina was named after Taro Urashima.
This is a plot point from Captain Harlock.
The plot point of searching for a relative in their destroyed ship is from Space Battleship Yamato.
CAST Takaya Noriko Noriko Hidaka Kazumi Amano Rei Sakuma Coach Norio Wakamoto Jung-Freud Maria Kawamura PRODUCTION DESIGN Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Hiroshi Sasaki Mahiro Maeda Masanori Kikuchi SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT ANIMATION Yuji Moriyama MAIN TITLE DESIGN Yutaka Murakami (ARTMIC) CHIEF ANIMATOR Toshiyuki Kubowoka ANIMATORS Katsuhiro Nakayama Takeshi Honda Kazuya Honda Shinya Yamamoto Yoko Onoda Tomoaki Kado Keiji Gotoh Koichi Nakaochi Naoya Kato Koji Yamada CHIEF ILLUSTRATORS Yuji Moriyama Toshiyuki Kubowoka LINE PRODUCER Shoichi Masuo CINEMATOGRAPHY Masahide Okino Hidetoshi Watanabe SOUND Ueo Ando (AOI STUDIO) Nobuyoshi Kamimura Shizuo Kurahashi Toyo Onkyo RECORDED AT AOI STUDIO SOUND EFFECTS Etsuji Yamada SPECIAL EFFECTS Yoshiki Okumura ENDING THEME "Try Again" VOCALS Noriko Sakai LYRICS Megumi Ogura COMPOSER Eiji Nishiki ARRANGER Motoki Funayama PRODUCED BY Victor Music Industry POST-PRODUCTION Studio Kuma Kuroneko Kan Studio Cats NUTI Studio Step OPENING TITLES Maki Productions CLOSING TITLES Kimiko Akai PRODUCED BY GAINAX COPYRIGHT 1990 VICTOR-GAINAX-B.M.D. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation.
These are the names of three other physicists.
Lorentz |
George
FitzGerald | Gamov
This is the first line of the theme song of Captain Harlock.
Californium is an artificial element, theoretically useful for small atomic weapons. It expires very quickly and requires a very small amount to start a nuclear chain reaction, but there currently isn't good enough technology to synthesize it.