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Amnesia10
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belchingmatt
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If I want to appreciate good science then I'll read a book.
This think tank can go **** themselves.
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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Amnesia10
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Yes but few films get it right. Dante's Inferno did a reasonable job with the aluminium propeller in the acid lake as recreated by Hollywood Science for BBC/Open University. The floating mountains in Avatar are one extreme.
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pcernie
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The amount of shows I have to avoid because they ruin films...  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Linux_User
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I don't mind the science being stretched a little - call it poetic licence. But when you see such [LIFTED] as The Core or Independence Day it really is taking the biscuit.
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AlunD
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But its science fiction rather than science fact surely 
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timark_uk
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The bugs in Starship Troopers were alien, so who are these people to say the laws of physics apply to alien creatures on alien planets?
It does annoy me when I hear sounds in space but I understand why it's been put there.
What really bugs me in films has nothing to do with the laws of physics; why are computers/computer interfaces so damned loud? There's too many beeps and buzzes.
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belchingmatt
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I'd be happier if they focused on historical inaccuracies first. Basically acknowledging that the US didn't win WWII on their own.
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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Fogmeister
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Amnesia10
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Well what about the Anti British bias in Hollywood? It is always the Brits who play the baddies. Maybe we just have a generally better acting range?  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Linux_User
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Let's take this 640x480 image and enlarge it into a crystal clear 1920x1200 image. 
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timark_uk
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Paul1965
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I thought that was because americans know that there's no way that they could come up with any kind of master plan and only Brits are emotionally cold and intelligent enough to do something like this. Plus, no american would do anything immoral.
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paulzolo
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Captain M Scott, formerly of the USS Enterprise demonstrated how not to use a mouse.
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