They may have a point. I was watching Reanimator the other night and I thought " why don't they teach this shit in schools?"
There's that episode of Firefly where they have an onboard fire, and they evacuate it into space, and it forms a vortex of fire and such. And, of course, in Firefly, there's no sound in space.
Then there's 2001, A Space Oddysey, with the correct detail of a vectored approach to dock with the spinning space station - plus the whole business of the artificial gravity on Hal's ship.
In Terminator...
[Okay - that's enough science fact in fiction examples. Ed.]
But can you find one in Doctor Who?
I subbed that one last night and laughed like a drain.
What a knob.
- Trout
"But can you find one in Doctor Who?"
Sonic screwdrivers are amazingly versatile
::"But can you find one in Doctor Who?"
::Sonic screwdrivers are amazingly versatile
IIRC, in real life you can only use them as a pen and a light.
"Then there's 2001, A Space Oddysey..."
Yeah- pity they went and spoiled it with the sequence where Bowman makes it back onboard without his helmet (which is actually one of the best bits).
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In reality, taking a deep breath and blowing the emergency hatch into a vacuum *might* blow Bowman into the airlock- but it would almost certainly cause his lungs to explode and would definately push the pod away from the ship.
Worst case scenario- Bowman doesn't budge an inch, the pod blasts off into space without him and his lungs burst. I have to admit I prefer the film version though.
bad Bob Booth... Blackwater etc
if they were smart they would be in the city
"Take R2D2 from the Star Wars films, for example. We are already doing that kind of stuff in robotics"
Does this guy know absolutely nothing about modern technology or for that matter science? Or am I jumping the gun and I need to scour ebay for my own R2 unit?
We've all got one, we just didn't tell you.
As for political stupidity, I reckon I can think of a fair few worse than the one mentioned on this thread...
He's just trying to point out that it may help to engage the kids a little...which is pretty much what good teachers do...however, because he is a politician he is automatically evil so please carry on...
That would make a really funny Future Short.
Actually, I've just remembered - my Dad, who's a professor of architecture, referenced the TARDIS as an example in his lectures relatively recently (since the new series of Who started). You know, to do with making a space seem larger than it actually is with the architectural equivalent of smoke and mirrors. I only know about it because he wanted to know if it was an acronym, and as the family sci-fi geek I got quizzed. The whole RDIS bit fitted really well with what he was teaching.
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Well, I'm assuming that he didn't secretly invent a real tardis.
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As for me and my teaching: Internet Explorer is the Death-Browser and Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox and the rest form the Rebel Alliance.
Check out my amazing renactment of the opening scene of Star Wars via the magic of powerpoint:
right-click and save as, but be warned - it's a ridiculous 702KB.
Surely the Rebel Alliance use OpenOffice?
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In Dredd: it's best to use a hi-ex when a truck is coming towards you rather than standard issue.
The minister said "If I was a teacher I would start with a chunk from Doctor Who and Billie Piper and say, 'Actually, what was that all about and how is our textbook relevant to that?"
you could just unfurl a large picture of Billie Piper, which would get the attention of teenage boys. How you get from her to science, I`m not sure. I can`t remember any Piper related passages in my textbooks
makes sense to me. using science fiction to make science fact interesting, and how we're getting towards future type technologies
The theory is sound, but aren't you going to bore the kids who don't like Dr Who and pissoff the kids who do - "Actually, there's no such thing as pixie dust - any questions?"
Wasn't Doctor Who rignally concieved with that idea in mind - that it be informative as well as entertaining?
I had a chemistry teacher who did a bit about silicone-based lifeforms in Star Trek.
As I recall, it was far more interesting than non-SF related lessons.
I also remember being more than a little intrigued when I found out that Strontium was a real substance, and that there was a jar of the stuff on a shelf in the store cubpoard!
Which explains why you're so hideous, Matt.
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Don't you mean 'Drokk, severe mutation!'?
"I also remember being more than a little intrigued when I found out that Strontium was a real substance, and that there was a jar of the stuff on a shelf in the store cubpoard!"
I turned my back on science as a career choice the day I was told that Alpha particles can't penetrate through more than an inch of air, never mind starship bulkheads and barroom walls... What a swiz.
They weren't "Johnny Alpha" particles though.
more stupid by far are the Queensland politicians who have formed a queue to argue against daylight savings. Arguments include:
- couples who want to have nice wedding pictures would no longer be able to be photographed at sunset
- people would get skin cancer from the extra sunlight
....I can't remember the others, but there were some beauties
yes we're having the argument about Dayight savings in W.A. too. As you listed Floyd plus these
- Cows will get confused as to what time they give milk
- Curtains will fade from the extra light
yes we are backwards over here too
CU RAdbacker
QUEENSLAND Premier Peter Beattie says he won't follow Western Australia and reconsider daylight saving because he's convinced it increases the risk of skin cancer.
The WA parliament will today debate a private members' bill introduced by independent MP John D'Orazio asking for a three-year trial of daylight saving from December 1.
Mr Beattie said he would not be following WA's lead.
"I wish them well in their trial and they can join the rest of Australia in being 23 hours behind us," Mr Beattie said today.
He said he was concerned daylight saving would worsen Queensland's skin cancer rate.
"One of the issues in a state where we've got the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world - an extra hour of daylight is going to make that worse," Mr Beattie said.
He said children and adults spending an extra hour in the sun would have an increased risk of skin cancer.
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this is comedy gold
But why doesn't he invent his own version of time, thus making the day shorter and saving everyone from even more cancer? It's a conspiracy, I reckon.
I'm on my way to Scotland with a spatula and a lemon, fish-face...
I don't like the the way they had made up the interior of the Tardis for the latest Dr Who series.
The fact that there is now no bufffer area betweent the main control rrom and the door sort of spoils it.
It's looks squalid. Reminds me of the interior of the Vogon ship as apposed to the interior of the Starship 'Heart of Gold'.
Speaking of which. Does 'Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy' raise similer questions.
I guess it doesn't matter. It's mainly for sci-fi geeks that that are into the type of odd ball comedy that it's well known for. Nobody really cares about the attention to the sceintfic detail here.
It's a funny thing thought that this was the type of T.V. show that got me interested in Quantum physics,and all the metaphysical stuff about Life, the universe and everything.