Cele mai mari greşeli ştiinţifice făcute în filme

Inspiraţi de „Virus”, noul serial ce va avea premiera la AXN pe 5 octombrie, la ora 22:55 şi prezintă investigarea unei posibile episdemii ce a început în Arctic, ne-am hotărât să prezentăm acele greşeli ştiinţifice şi tehnologice din filme şi seriale care îi scot din minţi pe cei pasionaţi de acurateţe. (Syfy)

Oamenii arată cum arată datorită unui set specific de circumstanţe evoluţionare. De ce ar arăta extratereştrii ca noi? Singura explicaţie e că realizatorii de filme şi seriale vor să economisească bani cu efectele speciale. (STX Entertainment)

Aici ne gândim în mod special la „Ziua independenţei”. Cumva, personajul interpretat de Jeff Goldblum a reuşit să scrie un program pe care să il încarce în nava mamă a extratereştrilor ca să îi dezactiveze scuturile. (Twentieth Century Fox)

Laser beams move at the speed of light, largely because they are light. What they don’t do is spear through the ether ahead of your X-Wing like giant glowing arrows. In fact, they don’t even glow – especially not in space, where there would be no air particles to reflect off. Although it did look much cooler like that. (Walt Disney Studios)

Matrix is based on the idea that humans are kept alive as a sort of electricity generator. This is not just unlikely – it’s fundamentally impossible. They will need more energy to keep alive than they will produce. (Warner Bros.)

In Tim Burton’s Batman, the Caped Crusader and Vicki Vale fall from a church tower, but luckily, Batman has a grappling hook, which he launches over the parapet. After falling 60 to 90 meters at speeds that would be nearing 160 km per hour, they jerk to a halt. Keen-eyed viewers will notice that his arm remains attached. (Warner Bros.)

In the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day the bad guy has “gene therapy” to replace his DNA and change his appearance. You cannot replace your DNA. It’s in all your cells and is what makes you being you. It is considerably more ridiculous than having a brain transplant, which is very ridiculous indeed. (MGM)

In The Empire Strikes Back, the plot hinges on the Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive system failing, forcing them to travel from the Hoth system to the Bespin system at sub-light speeds. If we take our own solar system as a guide, the nearest other star – Proxima Centauri – is 4.2 light years away. Even if it was only that far to Hoth, we could still expect several years’ journey time. (Twentieth Century Fox)

If you’re moving in space, you will not stop if your engines get blown up, whatever Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home may tell you. Well, you might eventually, but only when you run into a planet or something. (Paramount Pictures)

If you zoom in really close on a grainy security camera picture until the pixels almost fill the screen, you cannot then press some magical button and make it all perfectly clear. Especially embarrassing in Blade Runner – where Deckard zooms in on a reflection in a cabinet door and recreates a face – and Enemy of the State, where they manage to rotate the image in 3D. (Warner Bros.)

The evolutionary theory goes hand-in-hand with the idea that there will be later superhumans in the next stage in human evolution. The mutants in X-Men are a case in point. Simultaneously across the world, a new generation develops mutations that give them seemingly magical powers. In reality, evolution takes place slowly, over thousands or millions of years. Mutations are rare, generally small, and almost invariably harmful. (Twentieth Century Fox)

In Alien: Resurrection, the Ripley clone has memories of her old self. This could not possibly happen unless in some way our memory was written on to our DNA. Just to clarify, it isn’t. Besides, the original Ellen Ripley was burned to death in a lake of boiling lava. The DNA might have degraded somewhat.

When a gun shoots you, you will not fly backwards as in The Terminator and in every John Woo film ever made. This is because a bullet does not weigh very much. (Paramount Pictures)

Cars almost never explode when they crash. The mix of fuel and air in the tank is too rich. Similarly, research shows that cigarettes will not set fire to puddles of petrol, no matter how nonchalantly you flick one in. (Paramount Pictures)

Regarding eco-disaster thriller The Day After Tomorrow, it has been theorized that melting sea ice in the Arctic could stop the Gulf Stream and cause certain parts of the Atlantic coast to get colder. However, it very definitely will not happen overnight and cause some ice-tsunami thing. (Twentieth Century Fox)