Bad Physics in Movies: When Hollywood gets science wrong
It's a bird. It's a plane. No... it's Hollywood's bad physics.
Tag: star wars
The army’s amazing 1962 four-legged Pedipulator beat Star Wars to it by 15 years
The '60s were very creative.
Fine wood artist makes a Death Star out of bamboo
What better way to celebrate Star Wars day than watching how a Death Star is made. Sure, Frank Howarth's bamboo ...
Newborn star fires lightsaber: as seen by Hubble
This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy.
Meet the Yoda worm – a creature living deep, deep in the ocean
A curious specimen which bares a resemblance to the iconic Jedi master Yoda, due to its large lips on either side ...
So called Baltic Sea “UFO” mystery solved, other questions arise
In the summer of 2011, Swedish marine explorers looking for various goods from shipwrecks, which sank in the Baltic Sea a ...
Planet orbiting around two suns found by Kepler
A remarkable discovery which turns once again turns fiction into reality, the Kepler spacecraft has found the first confirmed planet ...
Swedish explorers stumble across the Millennium Falcon beneath the sea?
[caption id="attachment_8388" align="alignnone" width="501" caption="The mysterious USO (unidentified sunken object) sonar scan. If you look closer, you'll see some trails ...
One in five Brits believe lightsabers are real. Science or Fiction?
While a number of today's science innovations which most of us take for granted, like airplanes, automobiles, computers or space ...