9th October 2009
Read it.
It’s a pretty good list.
1. Aliens are basically humans with silly foreheads
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October 10th, 2009 at 07:05
They left out some of my favorites. A black hole might (maybe, under some theories) spit back out the matter it absorbs, but not until after crushing it into subatomic particles.
I don’t care what planet you were born on, you cannot fly without wings or propulsion. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law.
You can’t get a gasoline explosion without exploding gasoline. (Gasoline fumes burn; dynamite fumes don’t.)
This article also seems to think science began in the late twentieth century. There are lots of earlier examples.
You cannot make a medieval telescope by putting two lenses in a leather bracer.
People who have never seen a clock don’t arrange for a duel “at one o’clock”. (Although the worst examples of this in film are simply faithfully reproducing Dumas’s mistake.)
No gun made before or during the Civil War had a topstrap.
If you’re hit in the chest with a bullet and it misses all “vital organs”, you still won’t be riding a horse in the next few minutes.
But I was happy to see them explode the myth of stopping power. The person hit with the bullet absorbs no more kinetic energy than the guy holding the gun. If one of them is pushed over, then they both are.