{"id":3329,"date":"2018-04-22T17:59:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T17:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/04\/22\/nasa-scientists-think-gravity-is-the-worst-most-inaccurate-space-movie-ever-made\/"},"modified":"2018-04-22T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T17:59:45","slug":"nasa-scientists-think-gravity-is-the-worst-most-inaccurate-space-movie-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/04\/22\/nasa-scientists-think-gravity-is-the-worst-most-inaccurate-space-movie-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Scientists Think \u2018Gravity\u2019 Is the Worst, Most Inaccurate Space Movie Ever Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/gravity\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gravity\">Gravity<\/a>&#8221; earned critical acclaim, a slew of awards, and more than $700 million at the box office, which is to say that\u00a0Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n&#8217;s sci-fi drama was fairly successful. One subset of moviegoers wasn&#8217;t impressed, however: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/nasa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nasa\">NASA<\/a> scientists. In a BBC video in which the women helping us conquer the final frontier list the best and worst movies set in space, &#8220;Gravity&#8221; is repeatedly cited as the most inaccurate of them all.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/04\/lost-in-space-parker-posey-molly-parker-interview-1201954856\/\" title=\"\u2018Lost in Space\u2019: 7 Things You Might Not Know About the Netflix Show, Courtesy of Parker Posey and the Cast\">\u2018Lost in Space\u2019: 7 Things You Might Not Know About the Netflix Show, Courtesy of Parker Posey and the Cast<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Others to earn ire due to scientific inaccuracies are &#8220;Mission to Mars,&#8221; &#8220;Armageddon,&#8221; and &#8220;Red Planet&#8221;; &#8220;Planet of the Apes,&#8221; and &#8220;Spaceballs&#8221; receive (dis)honorable mentions as well. Alas, &#8220;Gravity&#8221; stands above all the others for being utterly divorced from reality. Everything that could go wrong went terribly, terribly wrong, and that&#8217;s not exactly the feeling we want everybody to have about this industry,&#8221; one scientist says.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all negative, however. &#8220;Interstellar,&#8221; &#8220;Hidden Figures,&#8221; &#8220;The Martian,&#8221; and especially &#8220;Apollo 13&#8221; receive praise.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/04\/best-sci-fi-shows-space-1201954486\/\" title=\"The 18 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows Set In Space, Ranked\">The 18 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows Set In Space, Ranked<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Other issues with &#8220;Gravity,&#8221; which won\u00a0Cuar\u00f3n the Academy Award for Best Director:\u00a0&#8220;how Sandra Bullock could move between orbits with almost really no issue&#8221; and the fact that, &#8220;when she gets out of her spacesuit, she&#8217;s in cute little underwear. Where&#8217;s the diaper?&#8221; Where, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gravity&#8221; earned critical acclaim, a slew of awards, and more than $700 million at the box office, which is to say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-RH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}