...they're free to express their opinions publically.
Ahhhh, perhaps the best point you have made. We are ALL free to express our opinions on this board with regard to the rumors and news posted. This include rumors and news regarding UNOPENED attractions.
However, we are NOT free to question the substance of other posters' outside lives, nor are we free to tell them to shut their yaps. Further, it adds nothing to the conversation.
When you write, "It's the only emotion that's allowed," what do you mean?
He means you flew off the handle about negative opinions regarding the rumors, but did not seem to have the same response to positive opinions regarding the same rumors. After all, if opinions based on incomplete information are not justified, shouldn't that include ALL opinions? Further, if all opinions on the rumor are unjustified, why are you bothering to read them?
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming...
Few people seem to realize that modern spaceflight features small windows and controls.
Show, I don't think its that people don't understand this. I think most do. Its just that the expectation was that this would be futuristic experience, and some of the negative entertainment aspects, like small windows, would be overcome.
I'm not a big Test Track fan, but certainly it takes certain "liberties" compared to the way cars are actually tested so that the entertainment value is increased.
Further, since this is a futuristic flight, it would make pulling those aspects off easier to explain.
However, it does now seem apparent, especially from the canned rider evaluation posted at wdwmagic, that the ride portion of the attraction is probably trying to stay close to what a current day spaceflight is like, though its obviously going to be a lot shorter and tamer.
Lets try and realistically debate the technological components of the imagineering vs engineering aspects of what is being attempted here. It is unprecedented.
Crusader, the problem with this approach is that if forgets that this is first and foremost, entertainment. If the technology cannot fulfill the entertainment requirement, it does not matter how advanced that technology is, it will fail. If the imagineers can't make the technology entertaining, its a complete waste.
Nobody seems to be questioning the uniqueness of this technology and engineering in the theme park world. But when its all said and done, the entertainment value is what counts, and that what we have been disagreeing on, to certain extents.
Perhaps it doesn't............during the 3.5 minute "ride" component.
DK, did you just make up the 3.5 minutes, or did you see that somewhere. Just curious, because I hadn't picked that up. Thanks....
However, what do we know about the pre and post "ride" elements of this overall attraction? Nothing as of yet I suspect. Disney is capable of providing visual elements, and it doesn't have to be while we are experiencing G forces.
Good point. Certainly some with inside info have heard hints about the pre and post shows, so they may have something to go on. But for the rest of us, we don't have much, and honestly, this is where my hope lies for what I was hoping would be included in this attraction.
For all the talk about it not being fair to Disney that this photo is being judged, I think its actually helped them, at least with respect to us Disneyfied wierdos. Had I not seen the photo, I would have carried my expectations into the ride portion of the attraction, and MOST LIKELY been disappointed, at least to a certain extent.
Now, I "think" I have a more realisitic expectation of what the ride portion will be about, and am basically getting over my disappointment now, rather than right after the ride. Certainly that's a better situation for both me and Disney.
However, this does raise my expectations/hopes for the pre/post shows... (you didn't think I'd let 'em off the hook, did ya?)
, and I don't know if that is good or bad 
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Yea, except disney seems to be replacing a number of non-thrill attractions with thrill attractions.
