By: Nigel Depledge
Joe Arrigo (47) said: Quality science fiction is hard to come by. Not in book form, it’s not.
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Daffy (51) said: And yet I’ll bet everyone here loves Star Wars. But Star Wars doesn’t even pretend to use technology that exists now. Star Wars isn’t sci-fi : it’s swords-’n'-sorcery fantasy. Even the...
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Harry (57) said: . . . what always drove me bonkers about Armageddon was that the space shuttle could somehow maneuver in a vacuum as if it were in atmospheric flight. A minor issue, I know, but that...
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Kevin N (81) said: The only movie I’ve ever seen get zero-g mostly correct is 2001, and that was made over 40 years ago. You need to watch Ron Howard’s Apollo 13. The zero-g scenes were shot in a...
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Howard (89) said: C’mon people, Armageddon was a movie made to entertain the masses. Not a high school educational science film. I go to the movies to escape reality, not to study it. What next –...
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Howard (98) said: You guys realize that you only strengthen my argument by trying to defend the need to criticize the movie. Er, no. Your case is weak to start with, when you try to defend a movie that...
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Shunt1 (107) said: Four hours after I provided a link to the Orion nuclear rocket program, it is still in “moderation.” Yes, a link you posted on a Saturday afternoon. What of it? Or do you reject the...
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Daffy (127) said: So, if I understand most you all correctly, when the science is completely off the charts bad—as in Star Wars—it becomes OK again. So, in an odd way, you are complimenting the science...
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Thomas Siefert (128) said: You don’t really want to see Luke Skywalker leave Tatooine on a slower than light spaceship and then see one of his ancestors, twenty generations removed, arrive at the...
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MTU (129) said: Mind you, even in a mythological fantasy if they do use scientific terms (eg. parsec) as opposed to pure magic (eg. Hyperdrive, Force) and get it wrong then I do get a bit narked. Yes,...
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Still not buying it, I am afraid. Let me ask: what is the concern about bad science in movies? I assume it is because the public will be misinformed. Well, if they are capable of being that...
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Another thought—if the purpose of pointing out bad science in movies is simply a sort of “Spot the Error” on-line game for merely the fun of it, then I withdraw my objection.
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Finally, why did they need to invent an asteroid “the size of Texas”, when one 10 km across – thousands of which, both known and unknown, do exist – would do a perfectly adequate job of wiping out...
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Another thought—if the purpose of pointing out bad science in movies is simply a sort of “Spot the Error” on-line game for merely the fun of it, then I withdraw my objection. Well, that is PART of it.
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I think it’s a matter of what the movie (or tv show, etc) is trying to be. It depends on the parameters that have been set for it. Star Wars doesn’t pretend to be serious. It’s a fantastical form of...
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By: Thomas Siefert
I think we are getting to the core of it now. The annoyance lies in that people, without much knowledge of science, believes that films like Armageddon depicts reality as true as possible. Nobody...
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Still, Armageddon has points on the scene in one of the Left Behind books where a comet described as the size of the Appalachians hits the Atlantic. If you ever have a spare moment, Phil…. Left behind,...
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DFaffy (141) said: Let me ask: what is the concern about bad science in movies? I assume it is because the public will be misinformed. Well, if they are capable of being that misinformed, how will they...
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Thomas Siefert (146) said: I wish someone had waved their hand at me and said: “This is not the android you’re looking for” This is not the ‘droid you are looking for.
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The opening lines of Star Wars are a direct parallel to the common opening “Long, long ago, in a kingdom far, far away” for fairy tales and epic fantasies. It is establishing right from the beginning...
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