Mars and Island One

> From: Ryan Z [mailto:ryjaz@...]
> speaking of bad physics in movies, my favorite
> debunking website is:
> http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

It's a good idea, but tend to pick it's fights poorly. For instance the section that deals with AI claims the film is 'dumb' (paraphrased) because the film says the robots need no resources - and are therefore perpetual motion machines. Making such an extrapolation from one line of dialouge is dumb - and that's not paraphrased. It's much more likely the phrase refers to not needing food, time off, clothes, consumer luxuaries, and other 'resources' - not stuff like electricity.

For ID4 they arbitarily declare that the BMG the aliens use *must* be an anti-matter cannon of some sort. And then complain when later scenes in the film don't accomadate their theory. It's like pointing at a jet and claiming it's bad physics because it doesn't have a propellor at the front. This is poor behaviour from someone claiming to stand up for science.

ANTIcarrot.