Posted on 11/27/2014 10:48:23 AM PST by EveningStar
Who doesn't love a dinosaur flick? Well, paleontologists have a few fossil bones to pick with Jurassic World, the latest in a line of dinosaur movies that once bragged about its scientific credibility.
The trailer for the new movie, a reboot of the popular 1990s Jurassic Park franchise, was released Tuesday and has already been viewed more than 14 million times on YouTube. Like the original movie, Jurassic World takes place in an island safari park, where tourists visit living dinosaurs cloned from ancient DNA—until one hybrid monster goes rogue.
Despite global fervor among fans, dinosaur scientists are not thrilled with Hollywood's treatment of their subject matter.
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Oh great, yet another group that feels offended........
Just not realistic at all.
Because we turn to movies for our science facts.
You know, just like we depend on Star Wars and Star Trek for physics, space flight and other technology matters.
Hubby does that.....picks apart movies. I have always told him...it’s just entertainment! sheesh
No John Williams :-(
The computer graphics in so many movies looks so fake to me. Unrealistic to me based on that.
You know, just like we depend on Star Wars and Star Trek for physics, space flight and other technology matters.
A long time ago I took my dad to the first Star Trek movie because we were very bored one weekend. Shatner told the crew to take it to Warp 2 or something. Pa asked me what warp meant, I said I think it's speed of light. He groaned.
Some so-called lovers of science are just becoming insufferable p*icks these days.
The same smug jerks that moan and whine about how the “science” in movies like this is so bad, are the same losers that then gush over Star Wars and Doctor Who.
Just shut up and watch the damn movie.
>> Pa asked me what warp meant, I said I think it’s speed of light. He groaned.<<
Despite my quick jest, there is a BIT of science behind Star Trek — warp is indeed theoretically possible (see Einstein’s saddle).
But THEN Star Trek violates its own science by having a ship go Warp 15 when, using the calculations of Star Trek physics, Warp 10 is the absolute “fastest” (fast doesn’t necessarily apply when talking quantum physics) any ship could ever go.
Faster than that and energy itself collapses (trust me), so there would be no “field” that could be generated to hold the ship together.
I trust you, please don't do it.
Pa was working with his 1950s chemical engineering knowledge of physics and whatever warp they said was enough to offend him.
OH NO!!! You mean a sci-fi fantasy flick doesn’t reflect snivling scientists assumptions about dinosaurs???
Did E.T. upset Art Bell?
notice he is sitting on the crapper with his pants up and belt buckled.
couldn’r have him being tossed around with his pants around the ankles.
makes one wonder how he was taking a dump though.
He was trying to hide from the dinosaur. IIRC
yeah, i think you’re right.
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