[RightWhale]

We were supposed to see a Flash Gordon movie and report back for our science class in 1955 about what was impossible in the movie. I found nothing impossible about a model spaceship hanging from a string, so there we were staring at each other across an uncrossable chasm.

[LibWhacker]

LOL. Road Runner cartoons so twisted my understanding of physics, it's a wonder I was ever able to free myself of those misconceptions. I mean, the obviously absurd things were obvious even to a seven-year-old. That's why they're funny. But there are a lot of little subtle things, too (to a 7-yr-old) that'll just about ruin you for ever studying physics. I really think that's why physics was so difficult for me, much harder than any math course I ever took. I did well in it, but it was brutal.

[Billthedrill]

Ah, Flash Gordon, my favorite documentary. I don't wish to sound skeptical, but what were a bunch of people who were packing death-rays doing carrying those swords around and fist-fighting, anyway? That aside, I loved the 1980 movie version. Ornella Muti was hot. "Bring me the bore worms." W00t!

Where were we? Oh, yeah, physics...well, there is a certain willing suspension of disbelief. Take Star Trek - who is really going to believe that people can communicate with little flip-open thingies they keep in their pockets? Buncha malarkey...