one of my favorite “conspiracy theories” is that stanley kubrick was hired to direct a fake moon landing, but he was so obsessed with accuracy that he made them film on location on the moon
@@glenchapman3899 Thing is that Kubrick detested flying and boats, so the movie would have to have been shot in the UK, and Equity would long ago have leaked who was on the set there.
Reminds me of one I stole from SFDebris and bring up when moon landing conspiracies come up it goes like this: "The moon landings are completely fake, but with the flying saucers we got from Roswell we faked it... ON THE MOON. That's why it looks so real!"
Joes chair spin is the best thing on TH-cam, the angle, the speed, the lack of audible squeaking from said chair, Joes emotionless dead expression, all culminating into one 2 second work of art lol! A masterpiece lol
Good list. My favorite scene in Contact is when she is given the suicied pill. Ellie says she is not going to use it, but the guy points out that the pill isn't really for the 100 things we think could go wrong, it is for the 100 things we have not even thought of. Yeah, that got me thinking about all the unknowns we really don't know about. Love that scene.
@@360.Tapestry or they might have given her immunity from her suicide pill! When considering there's "100 things we haven't thought of," that includes things that make such pills ineffective or counterproductive. At that scene, I think I had recently watched a 007 movie where the villian has half his face and jaw dissolved, and explains it was an attempt at taking a cyanide pill before being tortured, and it went horribly wrong. So the Contact scene was kinda ruined for me.
11:00 "...the mars pressure is so low that would never knoc someone down, but THAT WAS THE ONLY MISTAKE, THEY PUT AN EXTRA EFFORT IN EVERYTHING ELSE..." nasa has 5 maned missions to mars nasa has set a semi-permanent base on mars nasa has pre-sent rockets for future missions nasa has a giant truck for traveling on mars nasa has tons of cameras recording basically everthing AND NASA HASN'T PLANNED ANY WAY TO THE MISSION COMMUNICATE WITH EARTH WHILE IN MARS? The sandstorm is NOTHING compared with this flaw.... they have laboratory with fancy shit disposoal system, water recycle, air recycle, huge space for planting potatos all sorts of computers and cameras AND STILL NO ANTENNA TO TRANSMIT TO EARTH? THAT MISSION WAS CONDEMNED TO FAIL let say.... at begining of the movie, matt damon got forgotten on mars because he was having serious diarrhea while the others were leaving and he got forgot [good plot for a next movie the whole process of the tripulation take the rocket out of mars, attach to the big ship that is on mars orbit, wait for the correct alignment: bigship-mars-earth in order to leave mars and start trip back to earth ALL THIS PROCESS WOULD TAKE DAYS, POSSIBLE WEEKS if it was 1% accurate, matt demon would recover from his diarrhea->realize he got forgotten->communicate with huston/tripulation at big ship->figure out a way to get to the other spacecraft that is landed on mars -> fly to the big ship AND THE END the movie would take 25minutes instead of 3 hours if it was 1% accurate
@@rafaellima381 what diarrhea? Lol atleast someone would or could have a count.....a sudden storke or suit malfunction when all others are in an an emergency takeoff would be less.....well LoL imo
Neil has also said in interviews that James Cameron‘s first reply to him was “yeah, I’m sure it would’ve made a lot more money if I had gotten the sky right.”
Good ol' arrogance. Refer to the money made as an argument for... anything. Money is real. Stars in the sky are just worthless specks of light. For us humans being stuck down here, the true nature of the Universe itself is just a nuisance most of the time. It's a really sturdy barrier to cross, one could even argue this is a major building block of the Great Filter. Evolved intelligence just fails to comprehend.
@@matwyder4187 Cameron is definitely arrogant, but for NDT to go through all of the trouble to criticize him on the sky not being right is also kind of an arrogant move.
@@riggs20 You know, if it's just an average director, it's clearly unfair to question their artistic decisions. But for someone who brags about their scientific accuracy and attention to detail... that's a totally legit goof to be pointed out. Just a different ballpark. I remember NdGT complained to Jon Stewart, as the Earth for some reason rotated in the wrong direction in The Daily Show intro animation. And he was totally right about it. And it was informative, never spotted it before. Even for a show that literally labelled itself as "fake news". Just because all the public trust they had. It was a totally proper move.
Im a young radio astronomer:) I got to work with the VLA and operate the green bank remotely and i had the same feeling- i had made it, just like Ellie Arroway i even wrote about her in the essay i used to get my current research position
One of my all-time favorite scenes ever was the one where they were strapped in while the ship is maneuvering about and some tools that weren’t secured are flying around the inside of the ship as it moves around. Accurate portrayals of inertia are so rare in space-based sci-fi and pretty much unheard of on a TV show.
I think "The Man From Earth" is the best sci-fi film ever produced. It never succeeded in the box-office because it is too cerebral for a general audience, but true geeks really love it for exactly the same reason.
I appreciated Arrival primarily for its focus on Linguistics, particularly on Structural Linguistics and the way a language is constructed and can be deconstructed and understood according to its building blocks and focus on mutual understanding. It adopted a very Saussurean approach to language without being excessively academic or elitist.
Ted Chiang's short story, Story of Your Life, that Arrival is based on is incredibly good. If you haven't read it, check it out. The evolution of the linguists understanding and implications of the end are even more mind-blowing than the film dared to take on.
Yes. I had a favourite series of books, and wasn't sure if they qualified as SF rather than space opera. After a while I decided that they counted as biological and sociological SF.
@Cat Magic Yeah, pretty cool. I have a long-term thought-experiment about humans decrypting a sentinel-type message. Thinking that the message - eventually - would amount to an alien equivalent of wikipedia, in a variety of alien languages. These languages would have as great a variety of sets of phonemes as our earth languages, and be represented both by their own glyphs, and the alien equivalent of IPA. Earth scholars would map alien phonemes to earth phonemes, and assign alien languages to earth phoneme sets - e.g. one alien language with one set of features would be assigned to speakers of one earth language - e.g. English, and others would be assigned to e.g. Mandarin, Arabic, Zulu, etc.
I really need to watch Arrival! I'm not a linguist but I am an ESL teacher and took some linguistic courses in University. I'm also living in Korea and I was thinking about how different their worldview is simply because of some grammar differences. They way they emphasize age hierarchy in their language here really changes the way they think about the world. It's also a really verb heavy language so they don't describe things with adjectives as often and they describe things with adverbs. The best example I can think of is them saying" I ate deliciously" instead of saying "the food is delicious." Also just watched the Martian and I loved it! I really love movies that push people to the edge of survival. Its even cooler when math and science are the tools used to ensure survival, not just instincts and physical skills.
Arrival is one of my favourites. I mean the 1996 original with Charles Sheen. Charles was perfect for the role. I really like Contact for so many thnigs too. Jodie was an excellent choice but I think John Hurt getting mentioned was an oversight. He made easy work of being in the know but not in a bad way.
Arrival is an awesome flick. WATCH IT! Sorry... I didn't mean to yell. 😁 But, seriously. It is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi movies. Denis Vila-however you spell his name is one of my favorite directors and this is one of his best.
Great video. "Andromeda Strain" is one of my favorite movies. I saw it the first time when I was a kid in the mid-1970's...it aired on TV one afternoon. That scene you described as "boring"? I found it edge-of-my-seat suspenseful and scary. It was like they were looking for a monster that might jump out at them any minute! I've seen the movie several times since then...it never gets old!
That is a pure documentary compared to that Mel Gibson movie where the aliens are smart enough to build interstellar space ships but too stupid to open doors. Add to that the fact that they were allergic to water and earth is like 70% water so they really knew how to pick the right target for their invasion.
If I were James Cameron I might have replaced the star field with another totally inaccurate one. But then again, if I were James Cameron, none of those films would have happened.
"A languages structure can actually change the speakers worldview" - something probably every (or at least most) language/linguistics aficionado and multilingual has discovered for themselves and is a huge part of why so many second language learners end up falling in love with and studying multiple languages
This was highlighted in the Jack Vance book 'The languages of Pao' A world of passive nice people grew tired of being raided by space pirates, so they hired a consultant to create their defences. The consultant said that it was their language was intrinsically passive and did not lend its users to defending themselves. He made three new societies from scratch with three new languages. One of science, one of the military (I forget the third). The point was that the limits of their abilities were constrained by the word available to discus the concepts involved. One (of several) reasons why the Chinese copy instead of invent is because Mandarin constrains innovation. The word for Mobile Phone is Hand Machine. An Alpaca is a Grass-Mud-Horse. You get the idea.
Every day, that movie becomes eerily more probable. It's scary how stupidity has become such an easy way for people to gain fame, money, & power, especially with the advent of social media. We already had a reality star president & now ex pro wrestler The Rock is thinking about running.
So stroked that you've got the Andromeda Strain on this list, I read the book when I was in med school and was blown away at how accurate it all was, and the genius to use human biochemistry and viral contamination to ground the story in reality.
@@dr4d1s him and Michio Kaku both rub me the wrong way. I feel like they were the first science celebs since Carl Sagan with paychecks way bigger than Bill Nye's, and it went to their heads. Plus their proximity to people like Lawrence Krauss and Stephen Pinker over the years kind of puts their whole generation in an uncomfortable place.
Tyson is so full of himself. I remember the day he said "if you loose the engine in an helicopter you're dead, it will fall like a rock" for Dustin from Smarter Every Day to actually go learn how to fly an helicopter and prove him wrong (it's called autorotation for those curious). He's one of the worst cases of "wElL aKtUaLly!" person. And the way he dismiss people with different beliefs. I'm an agnostic, but I don't advertise it. Tyson is constantly getting out of his own way to call any person who believes in god ignorant. Chill out bro, you don't need to be a dick about it.
Even down to the smart speaker apologizing for not recognizing your command, albeit instead of getting killed, I'm just randomly unable to set a reminder.
Not on the list, but as a musician, I loved how music was the language used to communicate in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Music is the highest science, and we are hard-wired to respond to it!
Agreed. Douglas Trumbull worked on 3 older science fiction films whose special effects hold up today, "2001 A Space Odyssey," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Blade Runner." Best bluescreen/slitscreen/light effects man in the business.
@@elimalinsky7069 It isn't CGI in and of itself, but the reliance on it and its placement as the default. While the Thing easily showcases how purely practical effects stand the test of time, Jurassic Park shows the perfect marriage of CGI and practical: the default was practical, and they used CGI only where necessary. Resting on a Triceratops' belly as it breathes? We're building a Trikey. T-Rex's iris constricting from a flashlight? Figure out how to put that in this big mechanical T-Rex's head. T-Rex attacking a Gallimimus? We have to do CGI. Nowadays, though, everything would be CGI, pushed to 11, and it'd all look outdated in two years--i.e. Jurassic World.
@@madaemon I agree. In the original Jurassic Park they used CGI in the wide shots, intentionally blurred and in movement to hide the roughness of CGI in those days, but animatronics in closeups, which look amazing and are timeless.
The most irritating thing in "Interstellar" was the rocket ship that required stages to launch from Earth, but later the single remaining stage managed to launch itself almost effortlessly from a heavy gravity planet. Right.
Glad to see somebody mentioning this. And it reaches Star Trek levels of silliness when they travel so deep into a black hole gravity well they experience extreme time dilation, yet conveniently fly right back out again in nothing but their little shuttle thingy. That must be one delta-v-packing, little ship. 😏
@marcocraine4201 I agree it seems a tad silly, but if I'm not mistaken they got out of it through using the Penrose Process, a theorized method of gaining energy from a rotating black hole, by dropping mass into the black hole.
You should have included George Pal's "Destination Moon" (1950), which was carefully made with amazing and beautiful moonscapes painted by Chesley Bonestell, and very accurate based on the science of the day. The only (semimajor) error was that in '49-'50 no one knew the moon was covered in a thick layer of dust. (This was proven by my father, Dr. Winfield W. Salisbury, when he bounced radio waves off the moon's surface, sometime between 1947 [he told me] and '51, while he was director of research at Collins Radio Co., now Collins Aerospace. In this experiment he used a radio dish--on the top of the Naval Observatory in Washington D.C.--that he had designed and overseen the construction of.) He and I went to see the movie in November '51, and it was one of the most thrilling movies I'd ever seen. I saw it six more times in the theater, a record for me (in those days movies sometimes stuck around for months, even a year or two). For years I wanted to become an astronaut--before the word even existed. The movie is still available on DVD.
One point of scientific realism Kubrick decided to drop was the giant sails that should have been used and was planned to be included on the model for the ship "Discovery", as he thought it would be too confusing for people to see a spaceship with sails on it. And speaking of "Arroway", 2001's lead character was David "Bowman"... ;)
It was great. And Dr Becky's reaction to Drumlin coming in and taking over was exactly the same reaction I had. Arrogant egotistical ass!!!😡 You you haven't seen her reaction video you should watch it. Hilarious.
Thank you. I scrolled through 30 pages of comments to see if anyone else noticed this little gaffe. So we're both nit picking a video about nit picking.
I was ready to let that one go, but then he also said "Los Alamos, Mexico" when Los Alamos is also in NEW Mexico. Like, I know nobody outside of it cares about our state, but come on, twice in one video? 🤦♀
The dust storm blowing him off his feet was more cinematic than him wandering around nearly blind in a dust storm and slipping into a narrow ,well hidden,crevasse the day before launch and being knocked unconscious.
Thank you for including "The Andromeda Strain". Seeing that movie contributed to me ending up in Biochemistry. Lots of people don't even remember it.. Book was great too. Another one that has been forgotten but was incredibly accurate in its time was "Fantastic Voyage".
I enjoyed reading Asimov's essay on how he tried to find the science behind shrinking people and equipment small enough to do what they do in that story.
Jesus, saw that Andromeda Strain when i was way too young. Might have been actually the first sci-fi film i ever saw (missed all the Star Wars films) and i was scared shitless. That town full of dead people was scary AF for a little kid. It was a time when scenes in movies didn't constantly have Explosions!! and Action!! and Excitement!! to keep the watcher interested. You know, modern day and 15sec attention span :D Instead they built tension with patience and the narrative was the key point. I really didn't notice that the movie was more than decade old at that point, i was just blown away with the "what if.." and science!
It is also a just a classic movie. Even though the split screen has been done to death in that era of from making, it holds up really well in Andromeda Strain.
@@UFO_PILOT If you mean the Apple TV show, I didn't even know it existed before reading your comment, and I'm really interested in watching it. I do have a question though; how bad is the US propaganda in it (you know the deal, USA always good, Soviets always bad)?
@@ShEsHy yes I'm referring to that show. It's basically an "alternate history" show where the Soviets land on the moon first and goes on from there. Many events in our history are reversed or tweeked in the shows timeline, but definitely not a propaganda piece IMO.
Love a well made, properly researched scifi movie. You've listed some of my top movies in this category and it's a well analyzed, written and performed presentation! Thanks Joe!
Just found your TH-cam… have marathon’d a good 5 episodes back to back and it’s only 9am now, lol! Great, dorky, freakin hilarious, intriguing, and just straight up enjoyable! Thanks for your episodes and looking forward to more… Cheers!!!
I have watched that scene a couple times and still don't know how he blew up the whole facility. I would guess that it has something to do with hydrogen.
i read the book and listened to the audiobook, its really quite hilarious when he's stuck in the airlock cursing to himself, and trying to figure out how to get back.
@@AtlantaTerry the first explosion is because he needs to use Hydrazine as a hydrogen source to make water vapor. Hydrazine, in addition to being quite toxic and carcinogenic, is highly explosive when it's upset in some way. The one where the air gets blown out is caused by a faulty airlock. even at 1 bar of pressure, air by itself can destroy an inflatable habitat in an instant.
And goes to show even when working with rocket fuel on a small scale, no matter if it's hydrogen, methane, or kerosene it can still be dangerous and sensitive to minor miscalculations
Definitely "The Martian"... When Watney says "I'm going to have to science the shit out of this"... and the line from very early in the book where Watney "I am so effed...". This is how real people talk when faced with adversity and when they are alone and think no one can here. I really appreciated that part of the book. And I understand why some of it couldn't be included in the movie.
Some very good choices IMHO. I was impressed with The Andromeda Strain when it first came out in that it was made more like a documentary than a drama, but the drama came through intensely. And...no annoying "high energy" music to drown out what the actors were saying.
Being an Austalian bird nut, Finding Nemo really bugged me because they got the fish PERFECT... and then all the bird species are American ones. Australia HAS Pelicans and Gulls, but not the ones portrayed in the movie.
"Being an Austalian bird nut" -- before my reading comprehension had caught up with the verbal intake, i cannot even begin to describe to you the image that this phrase apparently suggested to my rapidly wasting brain. i CAN tell you, though, that "australian bird nut" is going to enter my household vernacular. a meme is born, lol.
What bugged me most in Interstellar was, that they required a big rocket to get off earth, but then the little shuttle would have enough delta V to escape the gravity well near a black hole.
I think it was being slingshot around the black hole, and by releasing the pod, it actually transfers a significant portion of the black hole’s rotational energy to the space ship. However, your point still stands, since they got off that water planet which supposedly had higher gravity than earth.
That movie had a lot of humans who were supposed to be smart acting like idiots, the part where the explorers were surprised by the tides (that should have been detectable if they studied the planet with telescopes at a reasonable range), the fact that they clearly knew about the time dilation but didn't factor it into why they had been recieving a signal for so long, the fact that they were looking for a planet to settle in the first place when it isn't significantly harder to build O'Neil cylinders that much more closely mimic Earth's environment and have built in blight containment capability. The list goes on.
@@JM-us3fr For me, and don't get me wrong I loved the film, but as a student of science there were some things that also bugged me. Firstly the size and look of the waves. Why were the waves so tall? If the gravity waves tugging at the water were strong enough to pile it up that high, why did the knee high water remain? Capillary action would have drained the basin. Why did the waves have a clean face? The friction of interacting with the ground would have caused the top of the wave to roll over the bottom causing it to crest and break. And how did the bedrock resist hydraulic weathering? How did they "see" the planet to land on it? Due to the time slippage, the planet would not be where you "see" it. You would have to calculate a rendezvous into void space and as you decelerate to reduce orbit, the planet would appear to reverse on its orbit towards you. From the "mothership" you would appear to accelerate ludicrously as you descended away from it. Imagine trying to compute the velocity, since velocity is displacement over time, and the time is "relative" to the planet since its the planets orbital velocity and position that you need to match. Then, having missed their window for take off, how the hell did they find the ship in orbit? Docking with a ship in orbit is not as simple as flying towards it. You have to go faster to move higher in orbit and slow down to lose altitude, and you have to do this at very specific points (Apoapsis and periapsis) in the orbit. Otherwise your circular orbit very quickly becomes a parabola terminating in the ground or deep space...
@@brianellis5146 Yes, yes and yes. And then when you bring such points up, you get to hear "So you think you are smarter than Kip Thorne?". I don't think advisors get a say on the final script. They are just used for plot point ideas.
All of the clickbait Ukraine images showing tank explosions from distant drones always synchronise the boom with the explosion. Almost as big a travesty as the war itself.
2001. Hands down. As teenager in the 60s it had a huge impact on my intrest in science and space as well as the visual trip at the end. It is a work of art. Never deserving of that awful sequel...2010
The books are pretty great too. There's the main books that the show follows pretty closely, as well as a handful of novellas, one of which tells Amos' backstory. Well worth a read.
I know I'm a little late but the expanse is so truly phenomenal. They use some sci Fi tech for their propulsion systems but everything else just feels right and makes sense
I would love a video about movies like Her and Ex Machina, also Blade Runner 2049 Joe's relationship with Joi. The idea of relationships with AI fascinates the hell out of me.
I liked Ex Machina, but it’s in a weird spot where I don’t really recommend it to people any more because the first season of Westworld kinda makes it redundant.
Lol like if they were real enpigh and could be programed to be our perfect mate or family... Would we miss the trechery and mess of real people ... Scary cause maybe..no.
@@mariusvanc It works well enough to be upfront about how there were seriously detrimental changes to the cohesiveness of the world-building (and writing in general) after the first season, and that it’s OK to stop there. Other shows (Expanse! ❤️) have wound up being hands-down better as a whole series, but when it comes to *standalone-watchable* seasons, I haven’t seen anything come close to meeting the bar set by the first season of Westworld. (As an aside: for anyone who tried watching The Expanse but bounced off the slow boil of the first season, the second season episode “Doors and Corners” works really well as an in medias res introduction to the series.)
Oh yeah. The biggest lesson in this movie is that covid was like playing Plague Inc. on easy mode. The script is still going to happen, I hope we will be better prepared. I remember immunology classes back in 1985, the professors saying that it was not if, it was a when case an outbreak would come. I think they said it before and long after I graduated. Me and millions of biologists and MD's around the world saw what was coming on Jan 2020. But not politicians. Next elections, ask your candidates if they saw this movie.
@@BBBrasil too right. I actually saw the writing on the wall myself. I had already stocked pandemic supplies before COVID even existed. This has allowed me to have a stockpile of proper medical N95 masks (3M, not Chinese crap) which have lasted until my entire family has been vaccinated. Our supplies took us through the whole thing. And we have some to spare. The other lesson from Contagion is that you can't trust the government to save you. They aren't set up for big global disasters. You have to rely on yourself. And being ready before something like this is THE ONLY WAY to ensure your family's safety.
Contagion was interesting to me because it was intended to depict the worst case scenario. Ten percent of human population died. A huge number, but the human race goes on. Sex is a mess in humans, but it is here for a reason. It's that firewall of genetic diversity. I think we got off easy with Covid. I was not allowed to quarantine, so I documented what New York looked like. It had its moments of beauty. th-cam.com/video/i026O-4vzSU/w-d-xo.html
Reading The Andromeda Strain, moreso than the movie, really sparked my interest in experimental science. How they made observations, development hypotheses, designed experiments to methodically eliminate things. I've been a PhD research scientist for 40 years, now. I loved Contact for portraying the passion of a scientist and the exhilaration of v making a discovery. Jody Foster is amazing and it's nice to hear that she inspired a number of girls to become scientists.
If you haven't already, look for "Ants, Bees and Wasps" by Sir John Lubbuck, published 1882. The scientific method was just starting to gather steam. It's available free as pdf download, or, as I did, buy printed book which is photocopied from an original.
@@veramae4098 I used to like going to the rare books section of the Harvard university library and looking through copies of The Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Science from the 17th century. Articles with titles such as, "On the Nature of Air, " where the author makes observations and conclusions such as the winds can push things so, Air must be made of substance, even though you cannot see it.
“Alien” for the idea of space people just being working joes… “Event Horizon” for the ship designs, the down to earth crews and “liberate tuteme X eferes”
I was very happy the film left most of the growing medium discussion out lol. Mind you his rationalization he was now a space pirate, was a real highlight for me.
2001 is my favorite film of all time. The first time I watched it my brother wanted it to be an experience for me. I ate some mushrooms, meditated, and then watched it by myself. It changed me. I also absolutely love Interstellar too, I have seen it 4 times. I watched Arrival about a week ago and thought it was so beautiful. I haven't seen Deep Impact or The Martian though. Great video
The example I use for 2001 is when the pod uses explosive bolts to get back into the airlock. The viewer hears nothing ( as sound doesn't travel in a vacuum) until the external door is closed and then we hear the air rushing in..
The funny thing with the storm in the Martian is that it creates a plothole. If Mars can have storms that are powerful enough to tip over the MAV, then you wouldn't send a MAV to Mars years ahead of its use. The 2nd MAV that Watney goes to wouldn't have been there - if a random storm comes and tips it over at any point during the 2-3 years it sits on Mars then it would ruin the mission.
Another example of James Cameron's attention to detail: in the sequence from "Aliens" when Drake and Hicks are searching the rooms in the colony complex, apparently there is a time-correct issue of Playboy magazine on one of the tables (not that you ever see it). A bit like Ridley Scott's (fake) magazine titles on the newsstands in "Blade Runner...
Could you maybe do a Part 2 to this? Absolutely love how much the science of a movie is not only analysed, but the steps made to ensure its accuracy. Love the content. Stay safe ❤
The original sky in that Titanic scene wasn't just a little off, it was half a sky that was mirrored to fill. I noticed it myself and I was still in high school, it was pretty obvious.
One film that deserves an honorable mention is "Dante's Peak" because it does a pretty good job of depicting a volcanic eruption, pyroclastic flows, precursors leading up to an eruption, etc.
"The Martian" inspired me to try growing potatoes this spring in 5 gallon buckets. (no poop involved). I grew enough to make a couple dinner side-dishes.
@@MarsFKA ya. For some reason, I thought the nose cone was borrowed to stay alive waiting on the next launch window. I killed the movie at that point. It was like driving a car at 300 mph only to then realize that a windshield was necessary.
@@adamf663 The docking cone was one of the heaviest parts of the vehicle that Watney was able to remove with the tools that he had. There was no intention of refitting it. That's why Mission Control had him tie some hab material over the hole, to give him some sort of slipstream protection for the few minutes when the ascending MAV was still in dense enough atmosphere. As the vehicle ascended into increasingly thinner atmosphere, the slipstream protection became unnecessary. In the event, the material ripped soon after liftoff, so it didn't do much of a job. The big downside, both in movie and book, was the flapping material pushed the MAV off course and the Hermes crew, who were flying the MAV manually by remote control could not correct enough to bring it back on to its proper trajectory. But then, if you had continued with the movie, you would have seen what Hermes' crew did to solve the problem...
Great vid, and welcome back-ish! One small note: Residents of the town in New Mexico you referenced pronounce its name as 'So-CORE-oh.' There's a town in New Mexico named 'Madrid' that is pronounced 'MAD-rid.' Go figure?!
Lots of US towns and cities are like that. For example, in Pennsylvania there's New BER-lin. Illinois has Cairo -- pronounced KAY-ro, unlike the city in Egypt which is KY-ro.
One thing I like about these movies is that sometimes, you get to say "that thing is wrong because science has advanced since then and it's awesome!" For example, listening to the audiobook of "The Martian", I realized the plot point about having limited chances of getting goods to orbit for the rendezvous is now moot because of all the launch providers that have come into existence since the book was written. Even if it took five launches to get everything needed into orbit and boosted up to where it needed to be...we've got the tech to do it, and not have to rely on a single risky all-or-nothing launch. And that's awesome. ^_^
Casey Handmer is... kind of nutty, and I am responding to a two year old comment, but - his two year old blogpost seems relevant: caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/the-martian-starship/
This may be a minor point, but the issue wasn't that there wasn't enough room on the door for Jack to get on, but that there wasn't enough buoyancy. He didn't want Rose to freeze to death.
I like it too, although if I understand correctly, Joe says the aliens used a 'frequency' that is very specific. However, frequencies are based on our very random definition of a 'second', so that would make no sense for aliens to do, unless they knew how long one of our earth 'seconds' last.
Like it also very much .. But was little internally destroyed for me one time ... Cause was watching it one time with buddy . And when there is scene, when she called is anybody out there ( after dad passing ) Buddy started. We are the borg...
@@sttrife If the aliens know pi, and have observed interstellar hydrogen, they should have the concept of "pi times the frequency" as radio frequencies are the same whether measured as cycles per second or cycles per revolutions of the closest pulsar - or for that matter, any time measurement.
@@rcknbob1 if you want to express frecuency you need oscillations per time unit. In the film we don't know alien time units, and assuming they don't know ours, there is no way that you can use frequency as a universal. If the frewuency was pi×hydrogen in our view (which is per second) then for anyone who uses any other time unit, it would be meaningless. Think about it...
You hit on most of my favorite sci-accurate films, but I also love two sci-accurate anime. These are - "Planetes," first aired in 2003, which features the MC joining the orbital workers of an aerospace megacorp's garbage-collection division. The regions of low-Earth orbit and Lunar orbit are suffering from the early stages of Kessler Syndrome. The crew's day-to-day activity is the capture of space junk that is a threat to active space vehicles, especially those with humans aboard, in order to lower the number of collisions that occur each year. Eventually, the protagonist is chosen to participate in a manned-mission to Jupiter on humanity's first fusion-engine spaceship. "Space Brothers," a TV series that started in 2007, focusing on the older brother of a JAXA astronaut, who has recently become famous in the USA because he was selected for NASA's upcoming return mission to the Moon. The older brother has lost his very-nice but frustrating job of designing stuff for an auto maker due to head-butting his manager during an argument. Recalling his childhood dreams and promises he made with his brother, he applies to JAXA's astronaut program and the show follows his journey to become a specialist for an eventual manned-misson to Mars.
If you ignore that "Kanata no Astra" assumes FtL (and any "Expanse" and "Interstellar" fans will probably have to ignore that too), KnA has some interesting comments concerning how "habitable zone" planets might not be habitable for humans.
@@zimriel I forgot about Kanata no Astra but your comment jostled my memory; I liked the story delved into whether planetary conditions allowed by a "Goldilocks Zone" are even somewhat compatible with human physiology. While a sci-fi space simulation game, Elite Dangerous touches on this subject. Narratively, it's important to the human star nations' efforts to colonize planets beyond the current human-populated volume of the Milky Way and also to sus out ammonia worlds that can support Thargoids (these are only other living, sapient species with which humanity has interacted with any regularity).
Yeah, and the screenwriter for the Martian grew up in "Los Alamos, Mexico". Like when I moved to California and went to get a driver's license, and looked at my US passport, which correctly listed my birthplace as Santa Fe, New Mexico, and asked me why I had told them I was born in the US. Sigh. I made them find a map.
I loved "Upgrade" (Leigh Whannell is a great, seemingly underrated writer/director), and you could do a follow-up/part 2 video to include those titles you mention...
Interstellar plot: "There's a microbe in our food" "Lets move go to space and live on a planet orbiting a blackhole" "How do we do it?" "With the power of love"
Wicked.. that scene in Andromeda you mentioned .. the "too big, too small".. has stayed with me my whole life. I remember being absolutely astounded realizing a virus has size. lol Thanks for the reference. Love your content! 👍
Off topic, but I cannot thank you enough for lowering the volume of your background music. It really makes your videos much better. I love your content and really appreciate you making this change. 💕
one of my favorite “conspiracy theories” is that stanley kubrick was hired to direct a fake moon landing, but he was so obsessed with accuracy that he made them film on location on the moon
It can only be a conspiracy theory, if it is not true ;)
@@glenchapman3899 Thing is that Kubrick detested flying and boats, so the movie would have to have been shot in the UK, and Equity would long ago have leaked who was on the set there.
Reminds me of one I stole from SFDebris and bring up when moon landing conspiracies come up it goes like this:
"The moon landings are completely fake, but with the flying saucers we got from Roswell we faked it... ON THE MOON. That's why it looks so real!"
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that's my head-canon for reality
I remember how excited my linguistics professor was when he first saw Arrival he was like that's me! that's what I'm teaching you!!
I almost fully stood up in the theater to say SAME! (Im a linguist too)
Joes chair spin is the best thing on TH-cam, the angle, the speed, the lack of audible squeaking from said chair, Joes emotionless dead expression, all culminating into one 2 second work of art lol! A masterpiece lol
Agreed. The drum solo as he does it just completes the whole thing as well.
Yes
Up next: The Spinning Chair compilation with commentary by Joe Scott.
Beats the Heck out of Chris Collinsworth that's for sure
I always thought Spaceballs did a great job showing how one would "comb" a desert.
I enjoyed the proper Schwarz proportions
We Ain't found shit!!!!
Yogurt... I HATE YOGURT... Especially with strawberries...
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It's all about the merchandising.
Good list. My favorite scene in Contact is when she is given the suicied pill. Ellie says she is not going to use it, but the guy points out that the pill isn't really for the 100 things we think could go wrong, it is for the 100 things we have not even thought of. Yeah, that got me thinking about all the unknowns we really don't know about. Love that scene.
what they haven't considered is that she grows hairy paws out of her torso and vomits a mild acid from her ears
or tortured like Dr Strange was
@@360.Tapestry or they might have given her immunity from her suicide pill! When considering there's "100 things we haven't thought of," that includes things that make such pills ineffective or counterproductive. At that scene, I think I had recently watched a 007 movie where the villian has half his face and jaw dissolved, and explains it was an attempt at taking a cyanide pill before being tortured, and it went horribly wrong. So the Contact scene was kinda ruined for me.
11:00 "...the mars pressure is so low that would never knoc someone down, but THAT WAS THE ONLY MISTAKE, THEY PUT AN EXTRA EFFORT IN EVERYTHING ELSE..."
nasa has 5 maned missions to mars
nasa has set a semi-permanent base on mars
nasa has pre-sent rockets for future missions
nasa has a giant truck for traveling on mars
nasa has tons of cameras recording basically everthing
AND NASA HASN'T PLANNED ANY WAY TO THE MISSION COMMUNICATE WITH EARTH WHILE IN MARS?
The sandstorm is NOTHING compared with this flaw.... they have laboratory with fancy shit disposoal system, water recycle, air recycle, huge space for planting potatos all sorts of computers and cameras AND STILL NO ANTENNA TO TRANSMIT TO EARTH? THAT MISSION WAS CONDEMNED TO FAIL
let say.... at begining of the movie, matt damon got forgotten on mars because he was having serious diarrhea while the others were leaving and he got forgot [good plot for a next movie
the whole process of the tripulation take the rocket out of mars, attach to the big ship that is on mars orbit, wait for the correct alignment: bigship-mars-earth in order to leave mars and start trip back to earth
ALL THIS PROCESS WOULD TAKE DAYS, POSSIBLE WEEKS
if it was 1% accurate, matt demon would recover from his diarrhea->realize he got forgotten->communicate with huston/tripulation at big ship->figure out a way to get to the other spacecraft that is landed on mars -> fly to the big ship AND THE END
the movie would take 25minutes instead of 3 hours if it was 1% accurate
@@rafaellima381 what diarrhea? Lol atleast someone would or could have a count.....a sudden storke or suit malfunction when all others are in an an emergency takeoff would be less.....well LoL imo
"Moon" also deserves a mention. Besides the whole cloning angle, it's pretty solid scientifically.
One of the best sci-fi movies most people have never heard of.
@@oldprankster7606 Watched it w/no expectations and found it a lot better than expected. Great plot, acting, effects.
Having a father who came from outer space probably helped the director a lot.
Also, Sam Rockwell.
The premise of mining moon rocks for energy is fishy.
Neil has also said in interviews that James Cameron‘s first reply to him was “yeah, I’m sure it would’ve made a lot more money if I had gotten the sky right.”
Good ol' arrogance. Refer to the money made as an argument for... anything. Money is real. Stars in the sky are just worthless specks of light. For us humans being stuck down here, the true nature of the Universe itself is just a nuisance most of the time. It's a really sturdy barrier to cross, one could even argue this is a major building block of the Great Filter. Evolved intelligence just fails to comprehend.
@@matwyder4187 Cameron is definitely arrogant, but for NDT to go through all of the trouble to criticize him on the sky not being right is also kind of an arrogant move.
Oh tjat must be a lie. His first response had to be 4 letter word laden...then he cleaned it up for the press.... Lol
@@riggs20 You know, if it's just an average director, it's clearly unfair to question their artistic decisions. But for someone who brags about their scientific accuracy and attention to detail... that's a totally legit goof to be pointed out. Just a different ballpark. I remember NdGT complained to Jon Stewart, as the Earth for some reason rotated in the wrong direction in The Daily Show intro animation. And he was totally right about it. And it was informative, never spotted it before. Even for a show that literally labelled itself as "fake news". Just because all the public trust they had. It was a totally proper move.
@@matwyder4187 that goof must be rooted in stock footage somewhere because I've seen it elsewhere multiple times.
The running gag of Jason praising his cephalopod script has me laughing everytime
Facts!
Im a young radio astronomer:) I got to work with the VLA and operate the green bank remotely and i had the same feeling- i had made it, just like Ellie Arroway
i even wrote about her in the essay i used to get my current research position
Good on you Savannah!
@Rusto i do?
Most realistic Sci-fi movie: Spaceballs.
"Even in the future nothing works!"
Spot on, Mr Brooks. Spot on.
lolol VASTLY under-rated comment!! Case in point "smart phones".... 'nuff said.
May the Schwartz be with you
@Cat Magic I think this just shows you don't have a sense of humor.
@Cat Magic whut
@@rexredmonwalkingintheword9892 "I see your Schwartz is bigger than mine." "Virgin Alert! Virgin Alert!"
I love how science in The Expanse isn't just a backdrop, but actually affects the plot and character choices.
Agreed.... Watching this episode, all I can think off is "Joe better mention The Expanse!!" :-D
Same with the pseudo science of Stargate
I love how you know the difference between "effect" and "affect".
@@nutbastard _affecting effectively_
One of my all-time favorite scenes ever was the one where they were strapped in while the ship is maneuvering about and some tools that weren’t secured are flying around the inside of the ship as it moves around. Accurate portrayals of inertia are so rare in space-based sci-fi and pretty much unheard of on a TV show.
I think "The Man From Earth" is the best sci-fi film ever produced. It never succeeded in the box-office because it is too cerebral for a general audience, but true geeks really love it for exactly the same reason.
Some of the best dialogue ever
And no wonder Bowie himself went back to it and continued the story as one of the last major works he would do before he passed on.
Best high brow dialogue that dives into the philosophical or existential inquiries of the human condition
I seriously waited for this to be mentioned in the video. 😅
"Piety is not what the lessons bring to people. Its the mistake people bring to the lessons." Such a great line!
I appreciated Arrival primarily for its focus on Linguistics, particularly on Structural Linguistics and the way a language is constructed and can be deconstructed and understood according to its building blocks and focus on mutual understanding. It adopted a very Saussurean approach to language without being excessively academic or elitist.
What makes it Saussurean? I'm neither a linguist nore do I know anything about Saussure, but it's an interesting topic.
I'm glad you included Arrival, linguistics isn't usually recognized for being the scientific study that it is.
Ted Chiang's short story, Story of Your Life, that Arrival is based on is incredibly good. If you haven't read it, check it out. The evolution of the linguists understanding and implications of the end are even more mind-blowing than the film dared to take on.
Yes. I had a favourite series of books, and wasn't sure if they qualified as SF rather than space opera. After a while I decided that they counted as biological and sociological SF.
@Cat Magic Yeah, pretty cool. I have a long-term thought-experiment about humans decrypting a sentinel-type message. Thinking that the message - eventually - would amount to an alien equivalent of wikipedia, in a variety of alien languages. These languages would have as great a variety of sets of phonemes as our earth languages, and be represented both by their own glyphs, and the alien equivalent of IPA. Earth scholars would map alien phonemes to earth phonemes, and assign alien languages to earth phoneme sets - e.g. one alien language with one set of features would be assigned to speakers of one earth language - e.g. English, and others would be assigned to e.g. Mandarin, Arabic, Zulu, etc.
Most people have no idea what linguistics is. I tell people I study linguistics and they're like, oh, how many languages do you speak?
The Expanse is hands down the best science fiction series I've seen in years!
Moon is pretty good too and sooo underrated.
Moon was amazing.
Someone who thinks expanse is the best sci-fi recommends something I’ve never heard of? Sir, you have my attention 🥰
Oh and District 9 of course!
@@zarabee2880 You're in for a treat.
@@zarabee2880 moon is really good. Phenomenal acting by Sam Rockwell and a great concept.
I really need to watch Arrival! I'm not a linguist but I am an ESL teacher and took some linguistic courses in University. I'm also living in Korea and I was thinking about how different their worldview is simply because of some grammar differences. They way they emphasize age hierarchy in their language here really changes the way they think about the world. It's also a really verb heavy language so they don't describe things with adjectives as often and they describe things with adverbs. The best example I can think of is them saying" I ate deliciously" instead of saying "the food is delicious."
Also just watched the Martian and I loved it! I really love movies that push people to the edge of survival. Its even cooler when math and science are the tools used to ensure survival, not just instincts and physical skills.
Arrival is one of my favourites. I mean the 1996 original with Charles Sheen. Charles was perfect for the role. I really like Contact for so many thnigs too. Jodie was an excellent choice but I think John Hurt getting mentioned was an oversight. He made easy work of being in the know but not in a bad way.
@@mikkelbreiler8916 It's not the "original." That makes it sound like it was adapted from the same source. They're completely different stories.
It's great.
Arrival is an awesome flick. WATCH IT!
Sorry... I didn't mean to yell. 😁 But, seriously. It is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi movies. Denis Vila-however you spell his name is one of my favorite directors and this is one of his best.
@@rome8180I'm thinking that was a joke.
Great video. "Andromeda Strain" is one of my favorite movies. I saw it the first time when I was a kid in the mid-1970's...it aired on TV one afternoon. That scene you described as "boring"? I found it edge-of-my-seat suspenseful and scary. It was like they were looking for a monster that might jump out at them any minute! I've seen the movie several times since then...it never gets old!
Great flick...scared the hell out of me..
I saw it wen it premiered on TV
It was exciting and scary
Also the first time i heard someone on TV say goddamit
They made the movie seem so real
Joe, you know this has to be followed up by a "Most scientifically inaccurate movies, that tried not to be" video, right? Like Armageddon
star wars?
Armageddon was a lousy excuse for an Aerosmith music video...
@@tnvmadhav2442 Star Wars is a wildly, *HUGE* galaxy-sized inaccuracy (scientifically speaking).
@@MrEnjoivolcom1 But it´s a fantasy movie franchise so no one cares ;)
That is a pure documentary compared to that Mel Gibson movie where the aliens are smart enough to build interstellar space ships but too stupid to open doors. Add to that the fact that they were allergic to water and earth is like 70% water so they really knew how to pick the right target for their invasion.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: That star field. At that time of year, In that position, located directly over the Atlantic.
James Cameron: ... yes.
may I see it?
Knowing Cameron's reputation I am surprised he didn't do the reshoots on location.
If I were James Cameron I might have replaced the star field with another totally inaccurate one. But then again, if I were James Cameron, none of those films would have happened.
@@Adiscretefirm I think he had it done digitally. Too late for reshoots.
@@mariadocarmosobreira8323 it's James Cameron, I am joking about his perfectionist streak.
"A languages structure can actually change the speakers worldview" - something probably every (or at least most) language/linguistics aficionado and multilingual has discovered for themselves and is a huge part of why so many second language learners end up falling in love with and studying multiple languages
So if you're ever stuck between picking Swahili or Klingon.....
@@mikkelbreiler8916 🤣🤣🤣
Some languages use the Saxon Possessive Clitic.
This was highlighted in the Jack Vance book 'The languages of Pao' A world of passive nice people grew tired of being raided by space pirates, so they hired a consultant to create their defences. The consultant said that it was their language was intrinsically passive and did not lend its users to defending themselves. He made three new societies from scratch with three new languages. One of science, one of the military (I forget the third). The point was that the limits of their abilities were constrained by the word available to discus the concepts involved.
One (of several) reasons why the Chinese copy instead of invent is because Mandarin constrains innovation. The word for Mobile Phone is Hand Machine. An Alpaca is a Grass-Mud-Horse. You get the idea.
The most scientifically accurate movie I have seen is the first 5 minutes of Idiocracy. They nailed it!
I have to agree.
Every day, that movie becomes eerily more probable. It's scary how stupidity has become such an easy way for people to gain fame, money, & power, especially with the advent of social media. We already had a reality star president & now ex pro wrestler The Rock is thinking about running.
all you have to do is project the worst of what we have today into the future
but not us, right? we're the exceptions, right? right? amirite, guys?
@@ArtisticlyAlexis and due to a number of factors intelligence isn't being very strongly selected for in the population.
LegalEagle did a video about how wildly inaccurate it was for the time it was released, but totally accurate for 2020.
That interview with Andy Weir was gold. I could listen to the two of you geek out for hours on end.
I love how many people here enjoy the expanse. It’s so damn good. Thanks for mentioning it Joe.
It is really good. All of the books are available as audiobooks. Absolutely fantastic.
So stroked that you've got the Andromeda Strain on this list, I read the book when I was in med school and was blown away at how accurate it all was, and the genius to use human biochemistry and viral contamination to ground the story in reality.
And now 2022 we're all wishing CDC in reality was as good as CDC in the movie. [sigh]
@@veramae4098 😆👌
I saw the movie as a kid and it scared the crap out of me. Sci-if dan ever since.
I've always considered Interstellar as one of my favorite films of all time, it's so well written
Ppml
I watch it twice a year and can’t hold back the tears each viewing
One thing I can’t get over is the Hans Zimmer score in some parts. That organ music is too loud.
You're the new Justin Y.
The science was good but TBH the movie its self is terrible IMHO.
To be fair Tyson also got mad about BB-8 being an impossible design, despite BB-8 being a real remote-controlled model that worked just fine.
To be fair, Neil is full of himself. It doesn't take much for him to come out and say, "Well actually."
@Diemaco Alpha Dude can come debate me, I like science and am all for it. I just don't like Neil.
@@dr4d1s him and Michio Kaku both rub me the wrong way. I feel like they were the first science celebs since Carl Sagan with paychecks way bigger than Bill Nye's, and it went to their heads. Plus their proximity to people like Lawrence Krauss and Stephen Pinker over the years kind of puts their whole generation in an uncomfortable place.
@@MrTaxiRob I agree that that assessment for sure. What is the deal with Lawrence Krause and that other guy?
Tyson is so full of himself. I remember the day he said "if you loose the engine in an helicopter you're dead, it will fall like a rock" for Dustin from Smarter Every Day to actually go learn how to fly an helicopter and prove him wrong (it's called autorotation for those curious). He's one of the worst cases of "wElL aKtUaLly!" person.
And the way he dismiss people with different beliefs. I'm an agnostic, but I don't advertise it. Tyson is constantly getting out of his own way to call any person who believes in god ignorant. Chill out bro, you don't need to be a dick about it.
2001: A Space Odyssey apart from the year it's set is STILL the most accurate depiction of future spaceflight.
Even down to the smart speaker apologizing for not recognizing your command, albeit instead of getting killed, I'm just randomly unable to set a reminder.
You can't know that, until we reach spaceflight like that (if we do).
I was first introduced to this gem in a physics class in high school.... Good Times 😌
No. It isn't. Not even remotely. Nostalgia is fun though.
@@peterwhitey4992 Spoilers, it's happening this year.
Not on the list, but as a musician, I loved how music was the language used to communicate in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Music is the highest science, and we are hard-wired to respond to it!
Primer should get an honorable mention... That might be one of the finest time travel movies I have ever seen.
Couldn't agree with this more
Love Primer...low key but amazing!
Absolutely! Primer was fantastic!!!
Primer is one of the most complex movies I’ve ever watched. It’s amazing.
Bloody hell, a film that you have to watch with pen and paper to keep track. Absolutely brilliant
The special effects in 2001 still hold up today. I've had a chance to see it on the big screen twice in the last 20 years and am still blown away.
Agreed. Douglas Trumbull worked on 3 older science fiction films whose special effects hold up today, "2001 A Space Odyssey," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Blade Runner." Best bluescreen/slitscreen/light effects man in the business.
Can't beat practical effects. CGI destroyed cinema, in my honest opinion.
@@leslauner5062 Don't forget 'Silent Running'! Another great movie made possible by Douglas Trumbull's "magic".
@@elimalinsky7069 It isn't CGI in and of itself, but the reliance on it and its placement as the default. While the Thing easily showcases how purely practical effects stand the test of time, Jurassic Park shows the perfect marriage of CGI and practical: the default was practical, and they used CGI only where necessary. Resting on a Triceratops' belly as it breathes? We're building a Trikey. T-Rex's iris constricting from a flashlight? Figure out how to put that in this big mechanical T-Rex's head. T-Rex attacking a Gallimimus? We have to do CGI. Nowadays, though, everything would be CGI, pushed to 11, and it'd all look outdated in two years--i.e. Jurassic World.
@@madaemon I agree. In the original Jurassic Park they used CGI in the wide shots, intentionally blurred and in movement to hide the roughness of CGI in those days, but animatronics in closeups, which look amazing and are timeless.
The most irritating thing in "Interstellar" was the rocket ship that required stages to launch from Earth, but later the single remaining stage managed to launch itself almost effortlessly from a heavy gravity planet. Right.
Glad to see somebody mentioning this. And it reaches Star Trek levels of silliness when they travel so deep into a black hole gravity well they experience extreme time dilation, yet conveniently fly right back out again in nothing but their little shuttle thingy. That must be one delta-v-packing, little ship. 😏
@marcocraine4201 I agree it seems a tad silly, but if I'm not mistaken they got out of it through using the Penrose Process, a theorized method of gaining energy from a rotating black hole, by dropping mass into the black hole.
@mar you take that back about star trek! cocraine4201
You should have included George Pal's "Destination Moon" (1950), which was carefully made with amazing and beautiful moonscapes painted by Chesley Bonestell, and very accurate based on the science of the day. The only (semimajor) error was that in '49-'50 no one knew the moon was covered in a thick layer of dust. (This was proven by my father, Dr. Winfield W. Salisbury, when he bounced radio waves off the moon's surface, sometime between 1947 [he told me] and '51, while he was director of research at Collins Radio Co., now Collins Aerospace. In this experiment he used a radio dish--on the top of the Naval Observatory in Washington D.C.--that he had designed and overseen the construction of.) He and I went to see the movie in November '51, and it was one of the most thrilling movies I'd ever seen. I saw it six more times in the theater, a record for me (in those days movies sometimes stuck around for months, even a year or two). For years I wanted to become an astronaut--before the word even existed. The movie is still available on DVD.
One point of scientific realism Kubrick decided to drop was the giant sails that should have been used and was planned to be included on the model for the ship "Discovery", as he thought it would be too confusing for people to see a spaceship with sails on it.
And speaking of "Arroway", 2001's lead character was David "Bowman"... ;)
I can see Kubrick's predicament there. Nowadays 'Solar Sail' is a reasonably understood concept, not so much then....
"I'm gonna science the shit out of this"...pretty much the best line ever in a scientifically accurate move.
..... followed by the next best quote: "fuck-you Mars"
Scientifically accurate?
2 words: "Iron Man"
Ruined the movie right there
@@NathanKliem Followed by some flapping plastic in the wind between 1 atmosphere and the almost vacuum of Mars atmosphere...yer right
The best line in the novel was "My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain."
"Contact" is an excellent and immensely deep film. Underrated and underappreciated.
read the book. it's 100 times better and deeper.
@@sleepingbackbone7581 Niiice. Always looking for a good recommendation. Thanks!
@@sleepingbackbone7581 really enjoyed the gods signature PI bit. They missed out on that in the movie
i love it Jodie Foster is awesome and the mirror shot still blows my mind
It was great. And Dr Becky's reaction to Drumlin coming in and taking over was exactly the same reaction I had.
Arrogant egotistical ass!!!😡
You you haven't seen her reaction video you should watch it. Hilarious.
Great video Joe, as always. Just a small detail to point out at 8:48 the location of the NRAO is Socorro, NM and not Sorroco.
Thank you. I scrolled through 30 pages of comments to see if anyone else noticed this little gaffe. So we're both nit picking a video about nit picking.
I was ready to let that one go, but then he also said "Los Alamos, Mexico" when Los Alamos is also in NEW Mexico. Like, I know nobody outside of it cares about our state, but come on, twice in one video? 🤦♀
The dust storm blowing him off his feet was more cinematic than him wandering around nearly blind in a dust storm and slipping into a narrow ,well hidden,crevasse the day before launch and being knocked unconscious.
They both sound good 🤣
Mike Judge's 2006 "Idiocracy" is the THE single most scientifically and historically accurate movie of all time.
documentary of the 2020's
👍 It was obviously influenced by the story,"The Marching Morons."
Meh, it doesn't even realize that not everybody lives in the United States of Lobotomy!
@@Ugly_German_Truths but way too many do.
My garden grows just fine using Gatorade, thank you.
Thank you for including "The Andromeda Strain". Seeing that movie contributed to me ending up in Biochemistry. Lots of people don't even remember it.. Book was great too. Another one that has been forgotten but was incredibly accurate in its time was "Fantastic Voyage".
I enjoyed reading Asimov's essay on how he tried to find the science behind shrinking people and equipment small enough to do what they do
in that story.
I'd forgotten until recently how thrilling The Andromeda Strain was as well.
When that green blob moves on the tv screen...
Jesus, saw that Andromeda Strain when i was way too young. Might have been actually the first sci-fi film i ever saw (missed all the Star Wars films) and i was scared shitless. That town full of dead people was scary AF for a little kid. It was a time when scenes in movies didn't constantly have Explosions!! and Action!! and Excitement!! to keep the watcher interested. You know, modern day and 15sec attention span :D Instead they built tension with patience and the narrative was the key point.
I really didn't notice that the movie was more than decade old at that point, i was just blown away with the "what if.." and science!
'Andromeda Strain' is pretty hard to find, but it's on Tubi right now. I was delighted to see it again after all these years.
It is also a just a classic movie. Even though the split screen has been done to death in that era of from making, it holds up really well in Andromeda Strain.
Buddy, I appreciate the amount of research and fact finding you do as much as the humor you add.
Thank you. I love learning and you help me with that.
Jason is right, that cephalopod video is a banger! I enjoy that Joe shows love to his staff, the work they put in really shows!
Idiocracy is my favorite sci-fi film. Literally predicting the future.
On serious note, For All Mankind should be on this list.
It is not a SciF movie, it is a documentary sent from the future (by an alien)
@@UFO_PILOT If you mean the Apple TV show, I didn't even know it existed before reading your comment, and I'm really interested in watching it.
I do have a question though; how bad is the US propaganda in it (you know the deal, USA always good, Soviets always bad)?
@@ShEsHy yes I'm referring to that show. It's basically an "alternate history" show where the Soviets land on the moon first and goes on from there. Many events in our history are reversed or tweeked in the shows timeline, but definitely not a propaganda piece IMO.
@@UFO_PILOT Thanks for the reply. I'll check it out then.
Arnold's head exploding in total recall is 100 percent accurate. Don't try to tell me otherwise...
I got your six, bro.
i hate that scene and he totally recovers like nothing
Get your ass to mars!
@@BnORailFan Two Weeks, Two Weeks.
@Zangief The Red of all the TR references here, this one I don't get.
Love a well made, properly researched scifi movie. You've listed some of my top movies in this category and it's a well analyzed, written and performed presentation! Thanks Joe!
Just found your TH-cam… have marathon’d a good 5 episodes back to back and it’s only 9am now, lol! Great, dorky, freakin hilarious, intriguing, and just straight up enjoyable! Thanks for your episodes and looking forward to more… Cheers!!!
Welcome :)
I’m glad The Expanse was mentioned it’s my favorite show of all time but I’m very uncomfortable on the pronunciation of Wall-E! Hahahaha
The part in the Martian where he blows himself up still makes me laugh. The little bit of slapstick humor fit so surprisingly well.
I have watched that scene a couple times and still don't know how he blew up the whole facility. I would guess that it has something to do with hydrogen.
i read the book and listened to the audiobook, its really quite hilarious when he's stuck in the airlock cursing to himself, and trying to figure out how to get back.
@@AtlantaTerry the first explosion is because he needs to use Hydrazine as a hydrogen source to make water vapor. Hydrazine, in addition to being quite toxic and carcinogenic, is highly explosive when it's upset in some way.
The one where the air gets blown out is caused by a faulty airlock. even at 1 bar of pressure, air by itself can destroy an inflatable habitat in an instant.
And goes to show even when working with rocket fuel on a small scale, no matter if it's hydrogen, methane, or kerosene it can still be dangerous and sensitive to minor miscalculations
Definitely "The Martian"... When Watney says "I'm going to have to science the shit out of this"... and the line from very early in the book where Watney "I am so effed...". This is how real people talk when faced with adversity and when they are alone and think no one can here. I really appreciated that part of the book. And I understand why some of it couldn't be included in the movie.
I found “I am Mother” a very plausible movie. I could see AI trying to fix us.
Oh man that movie was a trip. Cool to see it mentioned here!
@Virendra Ajmeria Do it! It's fun. I mean it's weird, but fun.
the more I watched it I kept on wondering what the AI would consider a success on its part
I just watched it yesterday. Its definitely different, but fell a little short to my intuitive brain. Its decent though.
Ha! Good luck with that, Mother. We are irreparably damaged. That's why we're awesome. Mostly. Kinda. Well....maybe not.
Some very good choices IMHO. I was impressed with The Andromeda Strain when it first came out in that it was made more like a documentary than a drama, but the drama came through intensely. And...no annoying "high energy" music to drown out what the actors were saying.
Being an Austalian bird nut, Finding Nemo really bugged me because they got the fish PERFECT... and then all the bird species are American ones. Australia HAS Pelicans and Gulls, but not the ones portrayed in the movie.
"Being an Austalian bird nut" -- before my reading comprehension had caught up with the verbal intake, i cannot even begin to describe to you the image that this phrase apparently suggested to my rapidly wasting brain. i CAN tell you, though, that "australian bird nut" is going to enter my household vernacular. a meme is born, lol.
Moonfall was by far the most scientifically accurate movie
What bugged me most in Interstellar was, that they required a big rocket to get off earth, but then the little shuttle would have enough delta V to escape the gravity well near a black hole.
I think it was being slingshot around the black hole, and by releasing the pod, it actually transfers a significant portion of the black hole’s rotational energy to the space ship.
However, your point still stands, since they got off that water planet which supposedly had higher gravity than earth.
That movie had a lot of humans who were supposed to be smart acting like idiots, the part where the explorers were surprised by the tides (that should have been detectable if they studied the planet with telescopes at a reasonable range), the fact that they clearly knew about the time dilation but didn't factor it into why they had been recieving a signal for so long, the fact that they were looking for a planet to settle in the first place when it isn't significantly harder to build O'Neil cylinders that much more closely mimic Earth's environment and have built in blight containment capability. The list goes on.
@@JM-us3fr For me, and don't get me wrong I loved the film, but as a student of science there were some things that also bugged me.
Firstly the size and look of the waves. Why were the waves so tall? If the gravity waves tugging at the water were strong enough to pile it up that high, why did the knee high water remain? Capillary action would have drained the basin. Why did the waves have a clean face? The friction of interacting with the ground would have caused the top of the wave to roll over the bottom causing it to crest and break. And how did the bedrock resist hydraulic weathering?
How did they "see" the planet to land on it? Due to the time slippage, the planet would not be where you "see" it. You would have to calculate a rendezvous into void space and as you decelerate to reduce orbit, the planet would appear to reverse on its orbit towards you. From the "mothership" you would appear to accelerate ludicrously as you descended away from it. Imagine trying to compute the velocity, since velocity is displacement over time, and the time is "relative" to the planet since its the planets orbital velocity and position that you need to match.
Then, having missed their window for take off, how the hell did they find the ship in orbit? Docking with a ship in orbit is not as simple as flying towards it. You have to go faster to move higher in orbit and slow down to lose altitude, and you have to do this at very specific points (Apoapsis and periapsis) in the orbit. Otherwise your circular orbit very quickly becomes a parabola terminating in the ground or deep space...
@@brianellis5146 Yes, yes and yes. And then when you bring such points up, you get to hear "So you think you are smarter than Kip Thorne?". I don't think advisors get a say on the final script. They are just used for plot point ideas.
Didn't they also have their offices in the flame trench of the rocket? That's not well thought out...
17:14 "linguistic determinism" didn't realize there was now a name for one of the plot points of Orwell's _1984._
nice!
Scientific revolutions maybe similar to the concept of "linguistic determinism. Thomas Kuhn called it a paradigm shift.
Now I’m just saying… they can have the lightning flash BEFORE thunder claps rather than both at the same time to be more accurate.
If you are within a few hundred feet it sure seems like it happens at the same time, just saying 😉
@@bigboss-tl2xr ....aaaand remember to lie down flat.
All of the clickbait Ukraine images showing tank explosions from distant drones always synchronise the boom with the explosion. Almost as big a travesty as the war itself.
I geeked out in theaters when I thought about hexadecimals and ASCII table few seconds before Mark Whatney uttered it.
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2001. Hands down. As teenager in the 60s it had a huge impact on my intrest in science and space as well as the visual trip at the end. It is a work of art. Never deserving of that awful sequel...2010
I appreciate you mentioning The Expanse. I am constantly impressed by the science and concepts of that show.
The books are pretty great too. There's the main books that the show follows pretty closely, as well as a handful of novellas, one of which tells Amos' backstory. Well worth a read.
I know I'm a little late but the expanse is so truly phenomenal. They use some sci Fi tech for their propulsion systems but everything else just feels right and makes sense
I would love a video about movies like Her and Ex Machina, also Blade Runner 2049 Joe's relationship with Joi. The idea of relationships with AI fascinates the hell out of me.
OH yeah. Ex Machina is absolutely stunning.
I liked Ex Machina, but it’s in a weird spot where I don’t really recommend it to people any more because the first season of Westworld kinda makes it redundant.
Lol like if they were real enpigh and could be programed to be our perfect mate or family... Would we miss the trechery and mess of real people ... Scary cause maybe..no.
@@caffeinepuppy but then the second season of west world happened, and you don't want to trick a friend into watching it.
@@mariusvanc It works well enough to be upfront about how there were seriously detrimental changes to the cohesiveness of the world-building (and writing in general) after the first season, and that it’s OK to stop there.
Other shows (Expanse! ❤️) have wound up being hands-down better as a whole series, but when it comes to *standalone-watchable* seasons, I haven’t seen anything come close to meeting the bar set by the first season of Westworld. (As an aside: for anyone who tried watching The Expanse but bounced off the slow boil of the first season, the second season episode “Doors and Corners” works really well as an in medias res introduction to the series.)
How the hell did you leave out Contagion. Almost uncanny in its predictions of pandemic response.
Oh yeah. The biggest lesson in this movie is that covid was like playing Plague Inc. on easy mode.
The script is still going to happen, I hope we will be better prepared.
I remember immunology classes back in 1985, the professors saying that it was not if, it was a when case an outbreak would come. I think they said it before and long after I graduated. Me and millions of biologists and MD's around the world saw what was coming on Jan 2020. But not politicians.
Next elections, ask your candidates if they saw this movie.
@@BBBrasil too right. I actually saw the writing on the wall myself. I had already stocked pandemic supplies before COVID even existed. This has allowed me to have a stockpile of proper medical N95 masks (3M, not Chinese crap) which have lasted until my entire family has been vaccinated. Our supplies took us through the whole thing. And we have some to spare.
The other lesson from Contagion is that you can't trust the government to save you. They aren't set up for big global disasters. You have to rely on yourself. And being ready before something like this is THE ONLY WAY to ensure your family's safety.
Contagion was interesting to me because it was intended to depict the worst case scenario. Ten percent of human population died. A huge number, but the human race goes on. Sex is a mess in humans, but it is here for a reason. It's that firewall of genetic diversity. I think we got off easy with Covid. I was not allowed to quarantine, so I documented what New York looked like. It had its moments of beauty. th-cam.com/video/i026O-4vzSU/w-d-xo.html
Contagion turned out to be very accurate but it doesn’t feel like a sci-fi movie IMO.
@@boldtaa sci-fi... science fiction.
Pandemic = science
Contagion the movie = fiction
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WALL-E is a cinematic masterpiece
Yep I watched this film so many times ...
Eh ....
by n large
Too much garbage in your face? Plenty of space, out in space!
Reading The Andromeda Strain, moreso than the movie, really sparked my interest in experimental science. How they made observations, development hypotheses, designed experiments to methodically eliminate things. I've been a PhD research scientist for 40 years, now.
I loved Contact for portraying the passion of a scientist and the exhilaration of v making a discovery. Jody Foster is amazing and it's nice to hear that she inspired a number of girls to become scientists.
If you haven't already, look for "Ants, Bees and Wasps" by Sir John Lubbuck, published 1882. The scientific method was just starting to gather steam. It's available free as pdf download, or, as I did, buy printed book which is photocopied from an original.
@@veramae4098 I used to like going to the rare books section of the Harvard university library and looking through copies of The Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Science from the 17th century. Articles with titles such as, "On the Nature of Air, " where the author makes observations and conclusions such as the winds can push things so, Air must be made of substance, even though you cannot see it.
Ollie please tell... Those isolation suits looking like a space suit with a slinky tail? Those were for real???
“Alien” for the idea of space people just being working joes…
“Event Horizon” for the ship designs, the down to earth crews and “liberate tuteme X eferes”
"Ey, I'm woikin' in space here."
I was surprised when I read The Martian and how funny it was. Considering how bad of a situation Whatney is in, he still makes jokes.
I was very happy the film left most of the growing medium discussion out lol. Mind you his rationalization he was now a space pirate, was a real highlight for me.
@@glenchapman3899 When you have little to make you happy, a joke about the situation is perhaps the most correct response.
Someone received a book “The Martian”, and asked “what’s it about”? I answered “a story about a potato farmer”
classic human
When I get in bad situations, I make *more* jokes.
Helium 3 mining on the lunar surface has never been so schizoid and fascinating as in the movie "Moon"
I feel like Moon was Pandorum in reverse
Fantastic movie
Yes, agreed! Fabulous mind-twisting piece of work. Almost horror - than sci-fi.
2001 is my favorite film of all time. The first time I watched it my brother wanted it to be an experience for me. I ate some mushrooms, meditated, and then watched it by myself. It changed me. I also absolutely love Interstellar too, I have seen it 4 times. I watched Arrival about a week ago and thought it was so beautiful. I haven't seen Deep Impact or The Martian though. Great video
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Le Voyage dans la Lune 😍
Feeling so proud on being a part of the team that restored and colorized it. 😊
That's so nice!!!
Kudos to you.
Proud of colorization?? ICK!!
@@markclowe My job. My satisfaction. What's your problem...???
"Neil DeGrasse Tyson took issue with it" - could be the name of a book
A really long, boring book.
I mean, I'd read it
LOL That cracked me up
Neil deGrasse Tyson is to Carl Sagan what Frank Sinatra Jr. was to Frank Sinatra.
Well done for giving the Expanse a shout out Joe!
The example I use for 2001 is when the pod uses explosive bolts to get back into the airlock. The viewer hears nothing ( as sound doesn't travel in a vacuum) until the external door is closed and then we hear the air rushing in..
The funny thing with the storm in the Martian is that it creates a plothole. If Mars can have storms that are powerful enough to tip over the MAV, then you wouldn't send a MAV to Mars years ahead of its use. The 2nd MAV that Watney goes to wouldn't have been there - if a random storm comes and tips it over at any point during the 2-3 years it sits on Mars then it would ruin the mission.
Well, a storm can be stronger in one place. Could be diverted by Olympus Mons, or funneled through Valles Marineris?
I recall "Moon" being pretty accurate in showing the lunar surface mining operations, but it's been a LONG time since I've seen it...
Hey there TMRO resident Lunar bomber! Moon was really good, possibly troublingly accurate in other ways too... but maybe I'm a cynic.
Yes, The Expanse was mentioned!
Personally, the best sci fi series I have ever seen, no contest.
Another example of James Cameron's attention to detail: in the sequence from "Aliens" when Drake and Hicks are searching the rooms in the colony complex, apparently there is a time-correct issue of Playboy magazine on one of the tables (not that you ever see it). A bit like Ridley Scott's (fake) magazine titles on the newsstands in "Blade Runner...
Could you maybe do a Part 2 to this? Absolutely love how much the science of a movie is not only analysed, but the steps made to ensure its accuracy.
Love the content. Stay safe ❤
A TV one might be cool!
When Matt Damon's character ran OUT OF KETCHUP !!! the humanity...
Ikr? Can't make tomato soup w/o ketchup.
"I'm dipping this potato in some Vicodin and there is none here to stop me."
Literally one of the worst moments of mankind's history... running out of ketchup on Mars with only potatoes...
SPOILER ALERT!
At least The Expanse got an honorary shoutout at the end.
Godsdamned right.
Besides being just an overall AMAZING show, I'm always shocked at the depth and thought behind how realistic everything is.
Yes.... It better be. I mean it's the most accurate SciFi story of all time 👍
It would be blasphemy if it was not mentioned 😂
The Expanse Series set a new benchmark for the future SciFi stories
Also glad for a Gattaca shout-out, that's an under-remembered movie.
considering that many medical films are made without consulting ONE medical professional, I am incredibly impressed by this!
I was always amazed at how accurate "Batteries not included" was.
The original sky in that Titanic scene wasn't just a little off, it was half a sky that was mirrored to fill. I noticed it myself and I was still in high school, it was pretty obvious.
One film that deserves an honorable mention is "Dante's Peak" because it does a pretty good job of depicting a volcanic eruption, pyroclastic flows, precursors leading up to an eruption, etc.
"The Martian" inspired me to try growing potatoes this spring in 5 gallon buckets.
(no poop involved).
I grew enough to make a couple dinner side-dishes.
I bet they're delicious without all the perchlorate...
Forgetting to reinstall the nose cone was so far beyond stupid, I can not watch that movie.
@@adamf663 Are you referring to the nose cone on the Ares 4 MAV that Watney had to lighten by removing parts of it?
@@MarsFKA ya. For some reason, I thought the nose cone was borrowed to stay alive waiting on the next launch window. I killed the movie at that point. It was like driving a car at 300 mph only to then realize that a windshield was necessary.
@@adamf663 The docking cone was one of the heaviest parts of the vehicle that Watney was able to remove with the tools that he had. There was no intention of refitting it. That's why Mission Control had him tie some hab material over the hole, to give him some sort of slipstream protection for the few minutes when the ascending MAV was still in dense enough atmosphere. As the vehicle ascended into increasingly thinner atmosphere, the slipstream protection became unnecessary.
In the event, the material ripped soon after liftoff, so it didn't do much of a job. The big downside, both in movie and book, was the flapping material pushed the MAV off course and the Hermes crew, who were flying the MAV manually by remote control could not correct enough to bring it back on to its proper trajectory.
But then, if you had continued with the movie, you would have seen what Hermes' crew did to solve the problem...
Great vid, and welcome back-ish! One small note: Residents of the town in New Mexico you referenced pronounce its name as 'So-CORE-oh.' There's a town in New Mexico named 'Madrid' that is pronounced 'MAD-rid.' Go figure?!
Ah you mean like they pronounce Madrid in Spain? Go figure?! 😉😙
@@oskarlund1 Isn't the accent on the second syllable when referencing the city in Spain?
Lots of US towns and cities are like that. For example, in Pennsylvania there's New BER-lin. Illinois has Cairo -- pronounced KAY-ro, unlike the city in Egypt which is KY-ro.
One thing I like about these movies is that sometimes, you get to say "that thing is wrong because science has advanced since then and it's awesome!" For example, listening to the audiobook of "The Martian", I realized the plot point about having limited chances of getting goods to orbit for the rendezvous is now moot because of all the launch providers that have come into existence since the book was written. Even if it took five launches to get everything needed into orbit and boosted up to where it needed to be...we've got the tech to do it, and not have to rely on a single risky all-or-nothing launch.
And that's awesome. ^_^
Casey Handmer is... kind of nutty, and I am responding to a two year old comment, but - his two year old blogpost seems relevant:
caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/the-martian-starship/
This may be a minor point, but the issue wasn't that there wasn't enough room on the door for Jack to get on, but that there wasn't enough buoyancy. He didn't want Rose to freeze to death.
You could probably do an entire episode about the real science in Futurama!
Let’s use the What If machine to see what that episode would look like
Especially the decision to rename Uranus after the invention of the smellescope lol
Contact is one of my favorite films of all time
Same here, i rewatched it after aracaibo collabst and i hab a tear in the eye everytime they showed the telescope ;(
I like it too, although if I understand correctly, Joe says the aliens used a 'frequency' that is very specific. However, frequencies are based on our very random definition of a 'second', so that would make no sense for aliens to do, unless they knew how long one of our earth 'seconds' last.
Like it also very much .. But was little internally destroyed for me one time ... Cause was watching it one time with buddy . And when there is scene, when she called is anybody out there ( after dad passing ) Buddy started. We are the borg...
@@sttrife If the aliens know pi, and have observed interstellar hydrogen, they should have the concept of "pi times the frequency" as radio frequencies are the same whether measured as cycles per second or cycles per revolutions of the closest pulsar - or for that matter, any time measurement.
@@rcknbob1 if you want to express frecuency you need oscillations per time unit. In the film we don't know alien time units, and assuming they don't know ours, there is no way that you can use frequency as a universal. If the frewuency was pi×hydrogen in our view (which is per second) then for anyone who uses any other time unit, it would be meaningless. Think about it...
"Matt Damon" is my favorite line in Team America
MATT DAMONNN!
MATT _DAMON_ ‼️
I still hear that quote to this day when anyone ever mentions his name 🤣
I say that whenever I see him. Also, that should be his last line in Interstellar.
@@shanesrandoms same 🙃
You hit on most of my favorite sci-accurate films, but I also love two sci-accurate anime. These are -
"Planetes," first aired in 2003, which features the MC joining the orbital workers of an aerospace megacorp's garbage-collection division. The regions of low-Earth orbit and Lunar orbit are suffering from the early stages of Kessler Syndrome. The crew's day-to-day activity is the capture of space junk that is a threat to active space vehicles, especially those with humans aboard, in order to lower the number of collisions that occur each year. Eventually, the protagonist is chosen to participate in a manned-mission to Jupiter on humanity's first fusion-engine spaceship.
"Space Brothers," a TV series that started in 2007, focusing on the older brother of a JAXA astronaut, who has recently become famous in the USA because he was selected for NASA's upcoming return mission to the Moon. The older brother has lost his very-nice but frustrating job of designing stuff for an auto maker due to head-butting his manager during an argument. Recalling his childhood dreams and promises he made with his brother, he applies to JAXA's astronaut program and the show follows his journey to become a specialist for an eventual manned-misson to Mars.
If you ignore that "Kanata no Astra" assumes FtL (and any "Expanse" and "Interstellar" fans will probably have to ignore that too), KnA has some interesting comments concerning how "habitable zone" planets might not be habitable for humans.
@@zimriel I forgot about Kanata no Astra but your comment jostled my memory; I liked the story delved into whether planetary conditions allowed by a "Goldilocks Zone" are even somewhat compatible with human physiology.
While a sci-fi space simulation game, Elite Dangerous touches on this subject. Narratively, it's important to the human star nations' efforts to colonize planets beyond the current human-populated volume of the Milky Way and also to sus out ammonia worlds that can support Thargoids (these are only other living, sapient species with which humanity has interacted with any regularity).
As a New Mexican I couldn't stop laughing when he called "Suh-Core-Oh" "Suh-Rock-oh". I'm Dead!!!!
VW Scirocco?
As someone from the Old Mexico, I caught that too.
As a New Mexican, I caught that too. Sirocco is Saudi Arabia, but to some folks all deserts look alike.
😆😆 Its my grandmother and sisters name. ROFL.
Yeah, and the screenwriter for the Martian grew up in "Los Alamos, Mexico". Like when I moved to California and went to get a driver's license, and looked at my US passport, which correctly listed my birthplace as Santa Fe, New Mexico, and asked me why I had told them I was born in the US. Sigh. I made them find a map.
The Andromeda Strain is one of my favourite films. I like the hard science and pacing.
There is a 2019 sequel to the book available, "The Andromeda Evolution". Good read.
There is a Wilson in the Martian, His Name is Sojourner, it was the six-wheeled rover from Pathfinder.
This was a GREAT presentation, one of the best, most informative, and most entertaining that I have seen.
For me the most scientifically accurate movie is Evolution , bacause head and shoulders do indeed contain selenium.
Great Googlie-Mooglie!!
The Frigid the ice Maiden part was real also, meet her i college as she said wait that's that stupid movie. Just needed a good humping.
I loved "Upgrade" (Leigh Whannell is a great, seemingly underrated writer/director), and you could do a follow-up/part 2 video to include those titles you mention...
Interstellar plot:
"There's a microbe in our food"
"Lets move go to space and live on a planet orbiting a blackhole"
"How do we do it?"
"With the power of love"
“MURRRRPH! MMMMMUUUURRRRRPPHH!”
Wicked.. that scene in Andromeda you mentioned .. the "too big, too small".. has stayed with me my whole life. I remember being absolutely astounded realizing a virus has size. lol Thanks for the reference. Love your content! 👍
Like Goldilocks said "Size matters"!
Off topic, but I cannot thank you enough for lowering the volume of your background music. It really makes your videos much better. I love your content and really appreciate you making this change. 💕
I like the quote that Neil enjoys aswell, from Mark Twain: "Get your facts first, then you can distort them to your leisure"