Leave it to Neil deGrasse Tyson to find the scientific flaws in the latest Hollywood films! After all, the man who pointed out that the stars in the night sky weren’t correct in ‘Titanic’ would clearly have something or two to say about the latest release, Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity.’
The astrophysicist took to Twitter this weekend to point out some of the flaws in Gravity under the hashtag, Mysteries of #Gravity. Here are a few of his interesting (and probably less critical) tweets:
Mysteries of #Gravity: How Hubble (350mi up) ISS (230mi up) & a Chinese Space Station are all in sight lines of one another.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Mysteries of #Gravity: When Clooney releases Bullock’s tether, he drifts away. In zero-G a single tug brings them together.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock’s hair, in otherwise convincing zero-G scenes, did not float freely on her head.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Mysteries of #Gravity: Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east yet all satellite debris portrayed orbited east to west
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Mysteries of #Gravity: Satellite communications were disrupted at 230 mi up, but communications satellites orbit 100x higher.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Here’s where Neil deGrasse Tyson got a little more critical:
Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock, a medical Doctor, is servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
The film #Gravity should be renamed “Angular Momentum”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Mysteries of #Gravity: Why anyone is impressed with a zero-G film 45 years after being impressed with “2001:A Space Odyssey”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Mysteries of #Gravity: Why we enjoy a SciFi film set in make-believe space more than we enjoy actual people set in real space
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
However, despite his criticism, it seems like Neil deGrasse Tyson actually liked the film. (That, or he doesn’t want to get on Alfonso Cuaron’s bad side.)
My Tweets hardly ever convey opinion. Mostly perspectives on the world. But if you must know, I enjoyed #Gravity very much.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 7, 2013
So do you agree with Tyson’s critiques or think that some movies should just be seen for the sheer entertainment of it all and not for scientific accuracy?
Source: CinemaBlend
