Bad Movie Science

[JunkMonkey]

Movie science and real world physics part company all the time but sometimes... sometimes the gap between them is so big it can only be measured in MegaWTFs?

For your consideration: From Battle in Outer Space (1959)

The story so far: A series of inexplicable disasters have rocked the world. The world's leading scientists gather to tell each other things so the audience can hear them:

- It is clear from an examination of the circumstances resulting from these three disasters that there was a common force at work in each instance. The fact that the survivors were severely frostbitten is of particular significance indicating that extremely low temperatures were somehow produced. Now, what does this imply? Simply that by rapidly lowering the temperature of a certain object, its gravity would also be decreased.

-But isn't it impossible to remove gravity from a stationary object or a certain place?

- Yes, you are right. You see, it's been considered impossible up to now. But now it has happened here on Earth. My colleagues, Dr. Adachi and Major Katsumiya have a brief analysis of some very interesting data on this subject which I will ask them to explain to you.


- As you know, the cause of gravity is the motion of atoms. When the atoms of an object have no movement, its gravity is correspondingly diminished. At the temperature known as absolute zero, the atomic movement of an object is reduced to a state of rest and it becomes weightless. Owing to the centrifugal force of the revolving Earth itself, the object thus affected would rise up into the air. We are sure that the recent disasters were caused by a operation from space of some sort of freeze ray, which, by reducing temperatures abruptly was able to destroy the gravity.

Holy Moly!

What's your favourite really awful bad movie science moment?

 

[paranoid marvin]

Battle Beneath The Earth

Used to be on all the time when I was a kid (or so it seemed). Rogue Chinese general burrowing under US cities to place atomic bombs. Cue cops getting called to a 'listening disturbance' (really!?) with a scientist with his ear to the sidewalk claiming that he can hear tunnelling noises "Just like ants".

 

[BAYLOR]

Journey To The Far Side of the Sun 1969 also knows as Doppelgänger This film for its time has great special effect production values . Roy Thinnes plays n astronaut sent on mission to land a nuke dissevered habbitla planet which shares a twin orbit with Earth and is co pilot get ther crash-land the co plot dies and the rescuer is maiznginly Huamn and sudden the astronaut finds himself face to face with his mission boots who asking him why he came back and he consumed because as far he knows he arrived this mysterious planet. The send him home with his wife and while he drive he goes of the road because he thouhgthr the an oncloong car in his path, He get home he's in room pouring what happened and then glad in mitre and see something with writing reflected in the glass and he see that the writing which erring seen any mirror is receded but in this case its not he very quick find that al the ppasper and reading material he see is revised and when he hold it up to a miiii it isn't. He final figure what happened to him , he did make to that planet , It's exact mirror image of Earth literally and also on his earth there also a mirror version dupicate of him who has discovered that he too is on the wrong earth.

The premise of this is beyond loopy.

 

[Matteo]

Actually...

...I quite like that one