Re:Stupid Science in Sci-Fi
Sorry for not continuing the line in this excellent thread but I just saw Star Wars III and the stupid science in the last scenes really pissed me off:- what’s the boiling point of solid rock? It’s godda be more than a few degrees centigrade right? I mean if we were perched three feet above a bonfire we’d be pretty darned hot wouldn’t we?
Why then do the writers decide to hold the final battle scene a few inches over molten rock without the two main protagonists even suffering a slight heat exhaustion. If it was me, and I was standing 200 metres over such an inferno I’d be dead in a few seconds!! The air I breathed would be so hot that I would quickly cook my lungs from the inside, my hair would be singed off, my skin would blister and my eyeballs would shrivel. Molten rock is typically between 700 and 1250 degrees Celsius (2000 degrees Fahrenheit)
Anakin was burned not by his body touching the molten rock, not even by lying on rock that was only a few degrees from being liquid (maybe 1800 degrees F), he was burned because some of his clothes touched the magma and set fire, his surroundings were infinitely hotter than the hottest temperature that can cause clothes to ignite and [b][i]…… good grief I could go on and on, that film was such a load of bollocks![/i][/b]