Read a Thorough Chart of Bad Space Science in Movies -- Vulture

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Read a Thorough Chart of Bad Space Science in Movies -- Vulture

Read a Thorough Chart of Bad Space Science in Movies. The good news: Apollo 13 was totally accurate. You really can get three men back from the moon on the power it takes to run a coffee machine!

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It's a cute chart, but without even looking for them there are several obvious inaccuracies. For example, it dings the 1972 Solaris for showing that all planets have Earth gravity and that all planets have one planet-wide climate. In actuality, the entire movie occurs around one specific planet, they only depict a small portion of the planet, and although the book certainly doesn't depict significant climactic variations, there's also a solid story-based reason for why that planet might be very, very weird. (I'm not trying to argue that Solaris is a scientifically accurate movie -- it doesn't even vaguely try to be.) Also, the evaluation creates some false equivalences because you only see inaccuracies that are on the chart, making it look like 2001 (two checkmarks) and Sunshine or The Black Hole (three checkmarks) aren't that far apart in scientific accuracy, whereas the latter films have billions of other scientific flaws that just don't appear on the chart.