Silver Screen Science - The Meg

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Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It's a movie about a giant prehistoric shark that eats a bunch of people. Let's talk science! In this "science review," we're discussing The Meg (2018) - the portrayal of megalodon, the tropes of the scientists, and the movie's general relationship with real-world science. Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, David.
0:21.3	Hello, listeners.
0:23.3	And welcome to another movie discussion here at the Commonest End podcast, what we are going to now start calling Silver Screen Science.
0:32.7	Yes.
0:34.0	Another paleontology adjacent movie has come out recently, you may have heard of, called The Meg, released just this August through Warner Brothers, directed by John Turtle Talb.
0:47.6	The Meg is a story about a bunch of people exploring the ocean who discover that there's actually a giant prehistoric shark
0:57.1	Megalodon still out there in the depths and they mess with it and it gets loose and it starts attacking people.
1:05.8	We're going to talk as we did in our Jurassic Park series about the science of the film, not just the nitpicky
1:14.0	stuff, but the broader concepts and where the film fits in what we think is the really
1:19.2	fascinating intersection of science and pop culture. Spoiler warnings going up. Indeed.
1:26.1	As always, we're going to talk about the whole thing, so there's not many twists and turns in this movie.
1:33.0	Yeah, be prepared.
1:34.9	There's a shark in it.
1:36.7	People get eaten by a shark.
1:38.5	But in case you care about that kind of stuff, there will be spoilers.
1:42.0	Also, it's worth pointing out that we are, this recording is a
1:45.8	special recording because it is coming to you from Atlanta, where Will and I are for Dragon
1:51.2	Con, making this the first ever common descent recording thing, this plus the bonus one that goes
1:58.3	along with this, that is being recorded by Will and me in the same room.
2:03.6	Yeah.
2:04.5	As but not over Skype.
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