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Rikku of the Al Bhed ([personal profile] the_merriest) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2011-03-15 12:44 pm
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Science is Awesome!!!, Class #10, Period 3, March 1st

It was rare that Rikku needed coffee to get her bounce going, but today was one of those rare days.

This meant that later, when the coffee kicked in, the students should probably steer clear.

"Okay," Rikku said. "This was going to be a movie day, but I couldn't find any movies offhand that didn't have really stupid science in them. So, that's going to be today's discussion. What's something you've seen in a movie that's really stupid, from a scientific perspective?"

She shrugged. "If you're from a culture that doesn't have movies, then maybe there are stories in the oral histories, or plays, or books and so forth, and you've hit the same thing -- something that just doesn't hold together, from a scientific perspective. Or something that didn't seem realistic, and you couldn't shake the feeling that it was wrong, even if you didn't know enough science to say why."

"That's today's topic. Bad science in popular culture. What examples have you bumped into? And you can also mention things you've heard in stories and we can talk about whether they could happen or not. I mean, science fiction, the whole point is stuff we don't have yet, but might some day, so I don't mean that? I mean cases of things like that movie where the guy uploaded a virus from his laptop to the aliens' mainframe computer. Seriously?"