11/11/2023 0 Comments Movies with physics phenomena![]() The Science & Entertainment Exchange, a program of the National Academy of Sciences, actually matches TV and film professionals, even video game makers, with science consultants for free. Today, filmmakers have little excuse for error. However, the astronauts could not wear clear, goldfish bowl-type helmets, as they did in real life, because they created too much glare for the camera. For instance, Destination Moon, a sci-fi flick from 1950, was one of the first to show space travel in a somewhat realistic way. The “bad science” those movies sometimes portray is not always the fault of filmmakers, Kirby says in many cases, it is due to the limitations of technology or simply a reflection of the state of scientific knowledge at the time. Kirby is actually quite forgiving when it comes to science fiction movies heralding from those early decades. Directors hiring scientists to review the science they portray on screen goes back to the 1920s and 1930s. I had heard Kirby talk about the history of science advising in the TV and film industries at “Hollywood & Science,” a recent webinar hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). If you missed it, Kirby’s list touched on asteroid predictions, natural disasters and a cloning incident-all bogus, when dissected by a scientist. The other day I wrote about five horrendously inaccurate scenarios in science fiction movies, all selected by David Kirby, a trained geneticist and author of Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema. ![]() ![]() Warner Brothers filmed parts of the movie Contact at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array in New Mexico.
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