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Good Science and Bad Science And Lack Thereof In Science Fiction Films and TV Series
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J Riff
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The Lights of Zetar The aliens who were disembodied life-force energy , that survived the destruction of their home world and the vacuum of space and yet they were all killed by being put into a pressure chamber? How can pressure kill energy ?
JunkMonkey
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Because it's an episode of Star Trek. Anything can be killed in the Trekkiverse by inversive polarity tachnobabblised renforcementification. The
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Your right everything can be killed in the Trekverse , even plausibility .
The strength of Star Trek is also the weakness of Star Trek. Lots of different writers, but with widely varying degrees of scientific literacy.
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And their mantra to the scientific plausibility issue. The audience will never know the difference . And in that era of time they were correct.
JunkMonkey
Lord High Vizier of Nowt
And their mantra to the scientific plausibility issue. The audience will never know the difference . And in that era of time they were correct.
'That era of time'? Given the incredible, and often wilfully deliberate, ignorance of great chunks the current American population - they still are.
KIng Kong , in this case the concept of Giant Monsters being able to survive on on Skull Island which is nat all that big a place. How could they find enough to eat ?
Frost Giant brought this point up in The Skull Island Movie thread. It's a very good point .
Frost Giant brought this point up in The Skull Island Movie thread. It's a very good point .
Never mind enough to eat what about enough to breed successfully without inbreeding?
Incidentally that has always been one of the main arguments against Nessie (the Loch Ness Monster); Lock Ness is very deep with very steep sides and is very acidic (due to the water flowing into it from peak bogs in the surrounding hills) which means it doesn't have a great deal of water vegetation which, in turn, means it has very little animal life. Certainly not enough to support one really large creature never mind a breeding population.
Incidentally that has always been one of the main arguments against Nessie (the Loch Ness Monster); Lock Ness is very deep with very steep sides and is very acidic (due to the water flowing into it from peak bogs in the surrounding hills) which means it doesn't have a great deal of water vegetation which, in turn, means it has very little animal life. Certainly not enough to support one really large creature never mind a breeding population.
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Nessie doesn't exist and never did, except in peoples imagination.
JunkMonkey
Lord High Vizier of Nowt
Maybe they just lived a very very long time and are the last of a much wider spread community?
if sharks can live up to 400 years:
400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ - BBC News
if sharks can live up to 400 years:
400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ - BBC News
No Baylor's right. It is noticeable that there are similar myths around many other large lakes that have very steep sided tree covered shores. Branches break off and are seen floating in murky misty conditions and hey presto you have a monster. It's not just about needing a breeding community it's also about very little to eat in Loch Ness.
JunkMonkey
Lord High Vizier of Nowt
And the need for something to sell the tourists.
That is most certainly it's primary modern role and why not?
Loch Ness was, apparently, formed during the Quaternary Galciation (2.5 million years ago to the present). So relatively recent and long after the end of the dinosaur's era of dominance (most went extinct 66 million years ago).Lochness dates from the previous Ice age?
That is most certainly it's primary modern role and why not?
Loch Ness was, apparently, formed during the Quaternary Galciation (2.5 million years ago to the present). So relatively recent and long after the end of the dinosaur's era of dominance (most went extinct 66 million years ago).
That time period also rules out Basilosaurus a prehistoric predatory whale which died out 34 million years ago. In any event there would not be enough food to sustain even a single specimen .
Yeah it's sad really; I'd love to believe... But then I'd also love to believe in Santa Claus. What he is real you say? Wuhoo!!!!
Yeah it's sad really; I'd love to believe... But then I'd also love to believe in Santa Claus. What he is real you say? Wuhoo!!!!
You would not want to be in the water with a Basilosaurus. They would likely regard us as snack food.
They are very scary looking . If your curious as what they looks like Google images.
Yeah it's sad really; I'd love to believe... But then I'd also love to believe in Santa Claus. What he is real you say? Wuhoo!!!!
So far science has proven conclusively that the North Pole is currently unoccupied by Santa. Of course no one is ruling out the possibility that he might have a townhouse somewhere in New York .
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