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Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science'
Roland Piquepaille writes "Science fiction movies can be fun, and sometimes boring, when Hollywood producers want to show us a 2 1/2 hour film when 90 minutes would be enough. But what about the 'science' behind them? BBC News says it's pretty bad in 'When sci-fi forgets the science.' For example, the metamorphosis of Bruce Banner into The Hulk, based on work of marine biologist Greg Szulgit from Hiram College, Ohio, about sea cucumbers, is qualified by himself as "really awful"." The Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics website, which we've previously mentioned, is referenced in this article, and is now freshly updated to deal with movies like The Hulk.
Sorry, slasheds, listen up. When I need to catch up on what's going on in the world, yunno, when I'm back from holiday or back at work after the weekend, I go to visit the BBC site (a news site) and then from the BBC site to slashdot.org
If reading about AMD's latest benchmark tests was news I'd come here first. But it's not. So why do I have to read the article there and then see it posted here a) As if some keen eye'd slashreader "discovered" it and b) As if no-one knew about the BBC site's technology section!
Gaaah.
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
For pete's sake, I don't give a jack about bad movies or replacement for lightbulbs or silent pumps for water-cooled PCs.
Where is my freakin' daily dose of SCO stories?!!!
Oh gosh, I'm so addicted, somebody help me please!
ub96What about the niggabyte?
They sell those at KFC I think.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.