"Gravity" busted a bunch of box office records this weekend.
Astrophysicist
He's Tweeting all the scientific inaccuracies he spotted in the film.
Some seem consequential.
Others...less so.
Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock, a medical Doctor, is servicing the Hubble
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013Space Telescope.
Mysteries of #Gravity: When Clooney releases Bullock's tether, he drifts away. In zero-G a single tug brings them together.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock's hair, in otherwise convincing zero-G scenes, did not float freely on her head.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Mysteries of #Gravity:
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013Astronaut Clooney informs medical doctor Bullock what happens medically during oxygen depravation.
Mysteries of #Gravity: Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east yet all satellite debris portrayed orbited east to west
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
Mysteries of #Gravity: Satellite communications were disrupted at 230 mi up, but communications satellites orbit 100x higher.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013
And last but not least
Mysteries of #Gravity: Why we enjoy a SciFi film set in make-believe space more than we enjoy actual people set in real space
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013