Movie science 101.

[judge death]

 List the most amazing, incredible and surprising scientific facts you've ever learned from watching bad movies, especially the ones your science teachers never taught you.

Watching "Battle in outer space" taught me that gravity is produced my the motion of atoms(!) and that if you freeze an object to absolute zero(!) it will have no atomic motion and therefore be immune to gravity. A bridge in japan, hit by an invisible alien freeze ray, become white and frosty, then levitates off the ground (I guess there were no bolts holding it in place. Oh, those crazy japanese and their weird engineering...)  then, when the ray is apparently shut off, warms up and falls to the ground.  I mean, this could save a fortune in shipping heavy stuff. Just freeze it to absolute zero, then ship it while it's weightless and not so hard to move. Think of the fuel we'd save! The oil companies must be keeping a lid on this bit of scientific data to keep making money on shipping stuff...

As I watched "The Devil-doll" with Lionel Barrymore I learned that matter was made of atoms and atoms were made of electrons. Electrons are minute bits of electrical energy and if you hook an object up to an empty electrical storage unit it will drain the electricity from the electrons, making the object shrink! Wow! Hey, why aren't we disposing of toxic waste by hooking it up to empty batteries and draining out the electricity till it vanishes altogether, and then using the electricity for something? It's obviously a conspiracy between the energy and waste disposal companies!

[Skull]

Superman (1978) ~ spinning the Earth backwards reverse time... I'd wonder what would happen if you make the Earth spin forward at a faster pace... (seems like the controls on my DVD player)



The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971) ~ the new head dominates the original head.

[Flangepart]

When people disintigrate, there is no smell the other characters need to comment about.

[JaseSF]

The standard of the 1950s: atomic radiation makes almost everything living (bugs, dinosaurs, human beings) that's been exposed grow huge.

[Flangepart]

Square cube law? We don need no stinkin' Square Cube law!

[judge death]

When people disintigrate, there is no smell the other characters need to comment about.

Movie?

[Chainsawmidget]

The standard of the 1950s: atomic radiation makes almost everything living (bugs, dinosaurs, human beings) that's been exposed grow huge.

There is an exception to this.  If it's a person that's exposed, they might just turn into a hideous mutant instead. 

[Skull]

Live and Let Die (1973)  ~ a strong magnet can be used to unzip a womans dress...

[Flick James]

The Core (2003) -

All of the science in that movie is totally legit. All of it. I don't care what the scientists say.

[judge death]

The standard of the 1950s: atomic radiation makes almost everything living (bugs, dinosaurs, human beings) that's been exposed grow huge.

There is an exception to this.  If it's a person that's exposed, they might just turn into a hideous mutant instead. 

I think we're forgetting "the incredible shrinking man".

[Flick James]

The standard of the 1950s: atomic radiation makes almost everything living (bugs, dinosaurs, human beings) that's been exposed grow huge.

There is an exception to this.  If it's a person that's exposed, they might just turn into a hideous mutant instead. 

I think we're forgetting "the incredible shrinking man".

Well, that's pushing the envelop for you.

[dean]

Live and Let Die (1973)  ~ a strong magnet can be used to unzip a womans dress...

If someone could invent a magnet to unclip a woman's bra the world would be a much better place...

[JaseSF]

If atomic radiation from an atomic explosion doesn't make things grow huge, shrink people or turn people into hideous mutants, it's still prone to waking up hideous monsters frozen in the Arctic or awakening them from some other means of slumber.

[Nukie 2]

The whole premise of "Mac and Me", a being from a distant planet's natural staple in their diet is a liquid that is manufactured on Earth. This suggests that indeed Coca-Cola is a possible naturally occurring product throughout the entire universe, it just so happens that on Earth it is a man made concoction.

[Flick James]

The whole premise of "Mac and Me", a being from a distant planet's natural staple in their diet is a liquid that is manufactured on Earth. This suggests that indeed Coca-Cola is a possible naturally occurring product throughout the entire universe, it just so happens that on Earth it is a man made concoction.

That's funny. George Carlin once made a speculative observation that perhaps the whole purpose of human beings was to provide plastic for the Earth. The Earth needed plastic, and didn't know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to the age-old question "Why are we here?"

Answer: "Plastic, a***ole."

He went on to say that, now that the Earth has plastic, the human race can now be phased out.

He was also the first to admit he had a sick sense of humor.