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nucal writes "Here's a site rating Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics. A really thorough site with a rating system which ranges from GP (Good Physics) to XP (Obviously physics from an unknown universe)." My vote goes to the helix of M&M's.
I initially got excited when I saw Problems with Windows. Instead of having the image of a glass window come to mind, my first thought wasy "Hey, you're right! I never see a BSOD come up when the hero's geeky, but for some reason windows 9x using, friend does a two minute hack into some other system to get day saving information.".
Somehow the idea of someone running uncut through a glass panel seems quite normal compared to the idea of windows 9x not waiting for the moment when a crash will hurt you the most, and then killing your data.
Everything will be taken away from you.
I'm informing you in this message that your use of decimal is disturbing to geeks. Why did you choose to use decimal? I'd really like to know. We don't even use decimal for many of our basic needs (time especially). Decimal is clearly for dinosarus. I think it likely that you do not know what radices mean, or else you would be using hexadecimal. Read about hexadecimal at intuitor and repost your comment using hexadecimal. You may use "0x" as a prefix or "h" as a suffix for the numbers. Intelligent people despise decimal--so try to show some intelligence. So do you know what hexadecimal is? Reply to this and prove it, otherwise we will assume that you are stupid. Personalized message:
Kilometers? That's for stupid people. Use meters, and HEXADECIMAL.
...the scientific prowess of nerds. But they do amply demonstrate nerds' legendary lack of social skills. And Timothy is out there leading the pack with that old canard about the helix of M&Ms.
What he assumes (despite considerable evidence to the contrary) is that the entire ship was in weightlessness. In fact, as clearly shown in Mission to Mars, the only part of the ship which had very low gravity (allowing the M&M trick to be possible) was the central axis.
Since even the central axis was rotating, any zero-g DNA model not only COULD be rotating, it would HAVE TO BE rotating. Now, admittedly it did not look like this model was oriented along the axis of the ship. But there was nothing in the scene which would have precluded such an orientation.
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