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Lionel Mandrake

(4,121 posts) Tue Dec 28, 2021, 07:47 PM Dec 2021

I watched a few minutes of Netflix's movie "Io".

I like science fiction when I can suspend disbelief, but "Io" makes that impossible. The film should have had a science advisor, who would have pointed out a couple of howlers:

1) Putting humans in orbit about Jupiter's moon Io makes no sense. Jupiter is ridiculously far from the sun. Furthermore, Io is right in the middle of a band of intense radiation, which would kill people very quickly.

2) Back on earth, scientists were trying to extract oxygen from ammonium, which contains no oxygen.

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I watched a few minutes of Netflix's movie "Io". (Original Post) Lionel Mandrake Dec 2021 OP

How do movies fail like this? hunter Dec 2021 #1

My favorite science oopsie in a movie wryter2000 Dec 2021 #2

You're right. Lionel Mandrake Jan 2022 #3

hunter

(38,958 posts)

1. How do movies fail like this?

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)

Wed Dec 29, 2021, 11:00 AM

Dec 2021

Compared to special effects, good writing and plausible science is cheap.

wryter2000

(47,505 posts)

2. My favorite science oopsie in a movie

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)

Thu Dec 30, 2021, 05:09 PM

Dec 2021

Jurassic Park. Leave aside only one of those dinosaurs was from the Jurassic period, per Stephen Jay Gould.

At the beginning, the animated video that explains how they created the dinosaurs from the DNA in insects trapped in amber, they say that where something was missing in the DNA they substituted frog DNA. Frog? Really? Frogs aren't remotely related to dinosaurs.

Lionel Mandrake

(4,121 posts)

3. You're right.

Reply to wryter2000 (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 1, 2022, 04:52 PM

Jan 2022

Bird DNA would make be more plausible, since birds ARE dinosaurs. Also, real velociraptors were a lot smaller than those in "Jurassic Park".

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