We took a trip through decades of the genre and came up with a list of the most important and best hard science fiction movies of all time. They are the essence and the foundations of the book of sci-fi rules that’s still being written as we, the audience, become much more self-aware of our relationship with technology, the future, and whatever those two will bring.

  • Landmammals@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    How does Clooney’s motion fall under angular momentum? The ISS wasn’t spinning. So everything is angular momentum if you include things that aren’t spinning relative to each other.

    Orbital mechanics aside, following Newton’s laws of motion is kind of a basic requirement for any movie that’s not fantasy.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 months ago

      How does Clooney’s motion fall under angular momentum

      He’s orbiting the earth

      So everything is angular momentum

      That’s the joke about anything in orbit.

      following Newton’s laws of motion is kind of a basic requirement for any movie that’s not fantasy.

      So what movie is hard scifi?

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
          41·
          6 months ago

          Watching someone time travel by climbing inside a superconductor ring is hard scifi (Cern is giant superconductor rings and no time travel) but watching an object in space move in a way that it shouldn’t isn’t hard scifi?

          Magical anti gravity in District 9 is hard scifi? But an alternative earth future (There is/was no Space Shuttle Endeavor. The Shuttle and ISS never coexisted. The MMU was retired in the 1980’s.) with a long range MMU and Hubble in a different orbit isn’t?

          Edit:

          Just looked at Robocop. It is filled with Hollywood physics. Man gets shot and gets thrown backwards 5 feet.

          Oh and everything inside the base in Moon is Earth gravity.