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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

10. Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics with Tom Rogers / Hard Science Fiction

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2010

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:00.0

You're going to be. The Welcome to the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kelly.

0:37.0

Hi, this is Dave.

0:40.0

And this is John.

0:42.0

And welcome to episode 10 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

0:45.0

Check that out.

0:47.0

They said we wouldn't make it, but they're wrong.

0:49.0

10 episodes.

0:52.0

That's about nine more than I ever thought we were going to make it through.

0:57.0

That's double digits, man. That's two figures, sort of like my income.

1:05.0

So anyway, today on Geek's Guide to the Galaxy,

1:08.0

we'll be talking to Tom Rogers, author of insultingly stupid movie physics.

1:13.1

You know, I was just in a bookstore last year in Santa Monica,

1:19.4

and I just randomly came across this book

1:21.0

and I thought it looked cool.

1:21.8

So I picked it up and read it, and I just thought across this book and I thought it looked cool so I picked it up and read it and I just kind of talks about all the most popular movies and what's wrong with the science in them and it has equations and things that you can figure out if you're interested but they're all

1:33.9

safely enclosed in boxes so if you don't care you can just skip right over them

1:37.8

so I read it and I thought it was really good and you know my dad teaches physics at

1:41.8

Stanford so I was curious what he would

1:43.8

think so I showed it to him and he read it and he really liked it he would

1:47.4

actually proposed teaching a class sort of an undergraduate class for non- majors

1:52.0

using that as the textbook.

1:54.0

And I guess they never, that never went anywhere, but it's a good indication of, you know,

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