Bad Science on TV

Star Trek. :P

 

Okay, seriously... Star Trek... :P

A kids show here about an alien girl who hooks up with a whale and fights crime. It's called Ocean Girl, and has a heavy conservationist message.

 

A little off topic, but what drives me nuts are news reporters that don't do their homework. I remember a recent story about energy prices and the rising cost of electrical energy. A Portland news station reported that the price of electricity was going up by so much per Kilowatt. Now, this may be nit-picking a bit, but I thought that journalist are supposed to get the facts straight.

We purchase in units of Kilowatt Hours = energy; not kilowatts = power. To say that the price is 10 cents per kilowatt means absolutely nothing.

 

of course when you live with Tsunami you measure energy in Megawatt Days.

 

uh huh.

and the bad science part is....

 

Lexx, that show is just stupid

and star trek

 

WOW! Evo a Lexx fan... :surprise:

Okay, I always loved it when Spock would tell captain Kirk that such and such event would take places in 6.024....432 minutes. Of course, in the time that he said it, 0.05 minutes had passed.

I love to tease Tsu about Captain Kirk - whom she can't stand - by pretending that he is my hero. Why just the other night I was telling her that when I am faced with a tough business decision, I think to myself, what would Kirk do?

Last night we watched Crimson Tide. Denzel Washington is a Nuclear Sub's First Officer who inspires a stressed crewman my telling him to imagine that they are like Kirk and Scotty, where Scotty comes through for the Captain at just the last second.

I looked at Tsu and said see! Even submarine commanders want to be like Kirk! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Then we pondered the strangeness of a fictional character idolizing another fictional character.

 

That show is very erotic. The love slave girl, Zev, used to be, anyway. All of a sudden there is a different actress playing her. The new actress is not hot.

Cleopatra 2525 is another very scientifically accurate show set in the future with hot women and large flying bugs.

I think it is signifigant that two separate teams of writers came to the conclusion the future would consist of hot women and large flying bugs. They were probably fed this information by psychic clairvoyants or remote viewers from area 51: I think we are seeing the truth about the future.

 

Does anybody here watch http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/niptuck/main.html. But that show is fully mostly of beautiful women and guys just getting it on. Less science = more goodlooking people

Kelly Carson definitely has one of the most beautiful face I've seen.

 

The movie Jeepers Creepers 2 drove me crazy. It has a creature that flies, is strong enough to flip a bus (by pulling it while flying, yeah right.) or lift a load twice its body weight at lightning speeds (as it grabs a huge guy and carries him into the air in a flash.) and rips its own head off and replaces it with a fully functional one that it steals from a teenager in the bus, with the head passing from the inside of the creature out. This movie just said, "To He.. with physics or science of any kind."

Oh and I almost forgot, one of the girls on the bus becomes a psyhic with no previous psyhic episodes.

 

Ooh poor science. How about all those shampoo adverts where i SWEAR they just make up chemicals like "neutrileum"... like we are supposed to know what it does.

How about just about every Marvel comic?


What about "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"?

 

Don't you dare mock Spidey...

 

LOL how about with all these Space programmes, they ALWAYS have their burners on. Save fuel guys, you dont slow down in space.

 

how can you people diss kirk???!!!! common, its kirk...captain kirk. you can't diss captain kirk!

 

Star Trek...that reminds me...the other day I saw them on a planet pinned down by enemy fire. Spock announced that his tricorder pinpointed the enemy as "three hundred twenty eight yards in that direction." I thought to myself, "I guess the current attempt to convert the world to metric is short lived."

 

Kirk: "Hey babe, is that a tentacle on your head, or are you just glad to see me?" ;)

 

Ah jimmy, but dont you want the revitalizing action of the new element "neutrileum" to oxidize your hair for that deep clean feeling?