post when you hear them

We watched Europa Report this weekend. When they near Europa, they say something like "surface temperature is absolute zero and falling."

You'd think they would expect people who watch a movie about the search for extraterrestrial life on Europa to actually understand that's unpossible.

1/14/2014 9:08:35 AM

Pretty much any space movie at all is like that. Historical ones like Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff are the only ones I can think of that get it right. Super sci-fi stuff like Star Wars or Star Trek don't really count since they are too "futuristic".

Armageddon is absolute worst of all of them. Don't get me wrong, it is an entertaining action movie, but it's got some of the worst scientific inaccuracies ever made.

1/14/2014 9:14:55 AM

^on the contrary, in the latest Star Trek, the enterprise goes from the moon to the earth in 5 min, due to gravity.

1/14/2014 9:19:46 AM

Anything that's done in the CSI shows....I think you all know this though.

1/14/2014 9:25:39 AM

ship loses power, immediately falls from orbit.

1/14/2014 9:31:12 AM

ship loses power, immediately falls from orbit.

1/14/2014 9:31:12 AM

^^^^Ah yes, forgot about that part. I was mostly thinking of The Next Generation and transporters and stuff when I typed that but the newer ones have a few fallacies.

[Edited on January 14, 2014 at 9:32 AM. Reason : ]

1/14/2014 9:31:49 AM

What about Sunshine? Other than the premise of the sun dying and being restarted by a man-made bomb, a lot of it was plausible.

1/14/2014 9:41:12 AM

speaking of Armageddon, how about in Deep Impact when the comet entered the atmosphere and streaked through the sky... and the onlookers just watched it and there was no massive shockwave that hit them at all.

1/14/2014 9:41:20 AM

Pretty much everything in The Day After Tomorow

1/14/2014 9:43:41 AM

especially "global warming"

1/14/2014 9:56:28 AM

Agents of Shield - when the massive hole was blown out of the side of the plane, it was plugged with an inflatable life raft.

1/14/2014 9:58:29 AM

2012 was pretty bad

1/14/2014 10:28:12 AM

^^Agents of SHIELD is pretty bad in general when it comes to anything that is supposed to relate to science in general. The plane they fly around in with two engines on the aft end is ridiculous and it can hover, hahaha. Most of the stuff on the show is based on magic from Thor's universe or alien technology though, so at least they can explain most it through that.

[Edited on January 14, 2014 at 10:36 AM. Reason : ]

1/14/2014 10:36:31 AM

My physics teacher in High School loved to show us movies and then ask us to prove certain events/actions were impossible/inaccurate.

1/14/2014 11:42:00 AM

I can't believe no one has mentioned The Core yet.

1/14/2014 11:50:45 AM

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"I can't believe no one has mentioned The Core any movie where science is involved yet. "

ftfy

1/14/2014 12:06:16 PM

1/14/2014 12:08:03 PM

jesus the damn military channel today was talking about surface to air missiles and b52s over hanoi.

they were showing stock footage of scuds launching.

i got pissed-

1/14/2014 9:23:54 PM

^^ AHAHA GODDAMN.

1/14/2014 9:26:17 PM

In White House Down they have an ICBM target Air Force One

1/14/2014 9:37:59 PM

In terms of TV, Babylon 5 is fairly realistic

1/14/2014 9:43:51 PM

Double post, SUSPEND!

1/14/2014 9:52:24 PM

1/14/2014 9:53:58 PM

Quote :

"I can't believe no one has mentioned The Core yet."

I went to a "nice" high school (aka middle-upperclass predominantly white) and the Earth Systems Science teacher showed The Core to her class at least once... just because. And yeah okay so you're going to slap a filler movie on during a half day or something, no one cares, but she specifically wanted to show this movie AND The Day After Tomorrow because of a vague environmental connection? Awful.

1/14/2014 9:57:00 PM

In terms of TV, Battlestar Galactica is fairly realistic

1/14/2014 9:58:35 PM

Movies where superheros are flinging around super heavy stuff, or stopping super heavy stuff. No matter how strong you are, physics doesn't work that way. You need grip, friction, etc. So asinine.

Also, just about every car movie ever. Most of the mistakes are so easy to avoid too. Like in The Fast and the Furious, when they talk about Civics needing new engines but mention engine codes for Nissans. I mean they obviously had to look up the engine codes for the script, so why not look up the codes for the right fucking company?!

Also, when car's blow up after crashing, or after shooting a gas tank. Does. Not. Happen.

1/15/2014 8:49:30 AM

http://youtu.be/mzs6V0tkkic?t=11m33s

1/15/2014 9:14:05 AM

haha i always liked in terminator 2 when the t1000 crashes that semi cab into the bridge and the tanks start leaking.

one tiny spark and all that DIESEL just explodes like a damn thermobaric.

1/15/2014 11:34:25 PM

a billion pages of possible material for this thread

1/15/2014 11:41:55 PM

Quote :

"Also, when car's blow up after crashing, or after shooting a gas tank. Does. Not. Happen."

Tell Paul Walker

1/15/2014 11:49:52 PM

speaking of all this, whats with the floorboard blowing out?

1/15/2014 11:58:01 PM

yea, i never got that shit, either

1/16/2014 12:06:19 AM

Most of the car scenes here are realistic

1/16/2014 12:13:01 AM

lol holy shit

1/16/2014 12:18:40 AM