7 thoughts on “Science Advisors To The Stars”

  2. If only they would stop: 1) Having “ignition” take place at T = 0, and 2) Stop having spacecraft make “wooshing” sounds, I’d be happy.

  3. I did some “science consulting” for a couple of films over the last few years on an informal, unpaid basis. For one film, I put together some quantum mechanics equations for a blackboard in a lab. The film used time travel as a hook, and the lab was to be shown in the 30s to 60s, so I put together a few sequences of equations and words and faxed them to my contact (a set decorator). They did make it into the film, and a couple of people on set noticed that they were “real equations”. Alas, the blackboard is only seen in the distance and partly out of focus, but I recognized my work.

  4. I was really impressed by Apollo 18–looks like they tried very hard to get it right. Confirmed by the director/producer DVD commentary, which is amazingly fun to listen to. It’s not a perfect movie, but imho will become a classic of the genre.

    Gerry Griffin was the technical advisor.

  6. “They wanted the Frost Giants to fall off the edge of a disc-shaped planet,” he says. “That makes no sense. Where does the gravity to pull them down come from?

    I think Terry Pratchett has an answer for that…

  7. I usually stay out of these types of discussions, but this is just too good to pass up.

    Yeah, when you are going to have your “Frost Giants” falling off their planet during battle with the Norse god of thunder; it is really important to make sure the scene is technically accurate. 

    Seriously, I like comic book movies (just watched Wolverine on television and enjoyed it immensely), but this is not Science Fiction and should not be considered such.

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