From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #44 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, March 1 2002 Volume 07 : Number 044 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V7 #40 ["Robin Thurlow" Subject: RE: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V7 #40 Barbara, this story of bad Hollywood "science" fiction is just too amazing. Would you mind if I quote it out and send it to some friends who are fiction writers/scientists? I think they'd die laughing! xxx Robin T - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Barbara Cohen Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 1:36 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V7 #40 > Everytime one of the producers goes on about how they have a scientist on > staff whose job it is to check their science for accuracy I just roll my > eyes and go "Sure you do! Sure you do!" > Heh. Actually, I have a number of colleagues who have been scientific advisors to Hollywood, mostly movies. The thing is, the producer approaches someone or some institution, to get a scientist to help out for free. then the scientist works with the movie people to point out how their plot is dead wrong and how it could be improved for scientific accuracy. Then the movie people ignore the comments but still claim to have done a lot of scientific consultation. Several people have ended up taking their names off the credits, or at least asking, but I know of one case where the movie people would not take the scientist's name off despite repeated asking. :) It's kind of fun to ask people about some of the stories they've been asked to work on, like one movie idea where the hole on the ozone layer broke free and headed straight for Los Angeles. "They" figure this out because the UV coming through the hole is like a deadly focused laser beam, killing all sea life in its path as it heads straight for the innocent citizens. Finally, it is thwarted by an ace military pilot who flies into the hole and sets off a bomb, thus destroying the hole. Star Trek begins to look good by comparison :) *B* - -- ______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Barbara Cohen, lunatic bcohen@higp.hawaii.edu Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology (808) 956-3901 (office) University of Hawaii at Manoa (808) 956-6322 (fax) Honolulu, HI 96822 http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/~bcohen/ ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:42:50 -0800 From: "Crackers" Subject: Alloy: Oh that whacky music industry. I think the musicians here should get a kick out of this. http://www.billboard.com/billboard/musictomyears/index.jsp Crackers Ghastly's Ghastly Comic http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #44 **************************