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As a writer myself: I have actual experts review what I write. That's about the best you can do. I think I read that The Big Bang Theory makes sure all the science is accurate. I wouldn't know.
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We use cows for the same purpose - we eat them instead of shoveling grass straight into our mouths, even though in some strict sense the grass contains more caloric energy. Or, we eat vegetables even though the energy in them is less than all the solar energy that falls on them. But of course the calories in grass and sunlight aren't accessible to us. It's not impossible to imagine some parallel situation where human…
Synthetic organisms would have a very different opinion of consumption than we do. Sustenance is much more than calories for us. Not so much for them.
Every computer movie with a hacker ever: hacker opens an excel spreadsheet and types in a bunch of gibberish "I'm in the mainframe."
Oh, for the days when you could run a murderous android with a 6502! https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64
There was an era where CGI was used to simulate somewhat real or imagineable behavior. If it’s a fantasy movie, I don’t care about bizarre effects. But something like Fast and Furious it’s just completely ridiculous to me. It’s just boring and lazy. Films like Grand Prix or Ronin have spectacular car scenes w/o being stupid.
The first F&F movies did it well, except the millions of gears, but otherwise it wasn't too bad.
I worked in theatre for years and audiences have a very high suspension of disbelief (much higher than for film or TV). Except for things related to the military, specifically uniforms. If you have a modern military uniform in your show, then it has to be _perfect_. Any errors you make will be glaring to someone who wore that uniform and it will take them out of the show. IME almost any other factual errors in a stag…
Now, granted the stratosphere is cold. But it’s also at very low pressure, and what happens to air when you compress it, say by moving it from the stratosphere to the ground? That’s right, it heats up. If you were to bring a packet of air down from the stratosphere, letting it heat adiabatically as it compresses to one atmosphere, I’d expect it to be hot enough to burn people rather than freezing them.
I rather enjoyed seeing Los Angeles being torn to pieces by multiple simultaneous super-tornadoes, though.
In the movie 300, after Leonidas and the 300 decide to march North towards Thermopylae. The valley & mountains in the background are REALLY from Sparta, Grecet. The producers made had sent crews to take enough photos and videos of the valleygt to accurately portrait the landscape. It was eerie to watch the movie (I grew up in Sparta) and see the mountains all around as they really are. BUT (big but here) they march S…
That's a kind of funny one, where being more accurate made it worse: if they just had entirely made-up scenery, it probably would have bothered you a lot less!
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Reminds me of the YouTube channels that try to play what the animated piano or guitar is playing, and it’s almost always wrong. But sometimes, in surprising situations, it was animated correctly.
That sounds dope, got any examples? Unrelated kinda - does anyone remember seeing some videos of a guitarist basically PLAYING some speeches? Like, there was a background of a speaker giving a speech or dialogue in a movie and this dude is PLAYING the speech with really weird jazz chords and they’re notated on the top of the screen. Very weird and specific I know LOL
Kind of pompous "... is a phrase I coined... it's earliest recorded occurrence is...".
In the Matrix humanity is enslaved to use them as an energy source. But the 2nd law of thermodynamics requires that any energy harvested would be, by definition, less than the energy of the food required to sustain their bodies. Therefore the plot makes no sense, because they should just shovel the food directly into the computer and skip the humans.