Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for March 23, 2016
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Transcript:
My fantasies before studying physics. Captain! We're under attack! Fire a plasma burst, then evasive maneuvers while we ready the space-Marines. My fantasies after studying physics. Captain! We're under attack! The ship is shaped like an infinitely thin elliptical ring with an eccentricity of 0.271812, whose gravitatio- Aaah! Aaaaah! Aaaah!
How do people who know even a little physics stand watching the simple-minded technology as portrayed in early Star Trek episodes or Star Wars movies? I preferred stories, for instance, by Larry Niven, Robert L. Forward or Stephen Baxter that exercised my mind with fantastic yet plausible concepts. Some of the newer movies are getting there, but to some extent they still dumb things down.