[sotd] June 21, 2002 [Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics]

        Site of the Day for Friday, June 21, 2002  

        Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

With the weekend enticingly near, the List offers a website with an
interesting perspective on a favorite weekend pursuit -- going to the
movies. Gentle members may be singularly appalled after a perusal of this
site, by the cavalier attitude to science, particularly physics, displayed
by far too many movies. 

"Technonerds go to movies strictly for entertainment, and of course, the
most entertaining part comes after the movie when they can dissect,
criticize, and argue the merits of every detail. However, when supposedly
serious scenes totally disregard the laws of physics in blatantly obvious
ways it's enough to make us retch. The motion picture industry has failed
to police itself against the evils of bad physics. This page is provided as
a public service in hopes of improving this deplorable matter. The minds of
our children and their ability to master vectors are (shudder) at stake." -
from the website

The site also includes reviews from the physics viewpoint of a number of
movies.

Warp to the website for an informative and amusing perspective on the
movies at:

http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/index.html


  A.M. Holm
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