Robbway
Shared on Thu, 02/15/2007 - 20:50I just saw the FedEx Commercial on the first Lunar Base. The commercial is so rife with scientific errors that it has to be on purpose. Here's my rundown:
- Inside: the moon is not a weightless environment. That's obvious, because the Earth and Moon would not be stuck together if they didn't both demand a decent amount of gravity. Coffee doesn't float in Globules.
- Outside: they have the gravity right, but now their helmets are transparent. Remember Ben Affleck in Armageddon? His character's retinas got fried by an accidental dose of unfiltered sunlight. Light filters work two ways. If you can't see the sun, then we can't see your face from outside.
- The Earth is WAY TOO CLOSE.
- The moon is not a weightless environment. This is worth mentioning again since one of the guys flies off the surface from being bumped into.
- The moon has no atmosphere. Said victim of weightless guy gets hit by a meteor--a streaking fireball over the moon. Meteors are rocks until they enter an atmostphere which generates friction, heat, and disintegration. Therefore, a streaking fireball meteor makes no sense above the moon.
I'm sure there's more. I'm sure it's on purpose. I hope it's on purpose.
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Submitted by syphaqlies on Fri, 02/16/2007 - 08:54