These sites might have been mentioned here before, but check out [url=http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/]Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics[/url] and here's the [url=http://www.geocities.com/naran500/]Sci-Fi Science Blunders Hall of Infamy[/url]

What’s the clichéd bad movie physics, or all-around bad science, in sci-fi that gets you exasperated? And what's your pick for most scientifically inept movie or show?

Universal Translators: In so many shows and movies wherever you go in the universe they seem to speak English, never mind that just on Earth most people don’t speak English – Mandarin is the most popular language here on Terra Firma. This might be explained by, to use Star Trek babble, a Universal Translator, but would it cause the beholder to see the aliens' mouths mimic the English language? Possibly… Perhaps it's some kind of parallel tongue evolution, telepathy, or the aliens have a steep learning curve. Anyway, I know from watching numerous Bollywood sci-fi musicals that the universal language of song is Hindi – and boy can those aliens dance.

I noticed that both sites mention that a big error in a lot of sci-fi is that you cannot have fire in a vacuum… Well I tested this theory on my Hoover, and they are wrong! So think twice before you light a bonfire in the vacuum of your cleaner.

Here's my choice for a movie with really bad science: [i]One Million Years BC[/i]. There are scenes where fur bikini-clad Raquel Welsh (with the help of her caveman friends) are fighting dinosaurs… Bad science! Anthropological evidence from a million plus years ago clearly shows us that Homo Sapiens and bikinis did not co-exist a million years ago. It would be a hundred thousand years before daring Neanderthal fashion designer Giorgio Rockmani shocked the prehistoric world with the first bikini which, unfortunately for sales, he modelled himself. It wasn't until the advent of Nair hair removal products that the bikini flourished. Thank you Nair!
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