Latest Double X post on the science of Pixar’s new movie Up:
Seeking scientific accuracy in Hollywood is a fool’s game. I’ve frothed at the terrible biology of Bee Movie and gnashed at the poor oceanography of Transformers and muttered at the unfortunate physics of Star Wars. So I wasn’t expecting much from Pixar’s latest offering, Up, what with the house floating along on helium balloons. But I was pleasantly surprised. The biology of Up is reasonably accurate—though Kevin the bird might harbor a dark secret.
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Still trying to figure out how Charles Muntz is still alive and spry when old man Carl Fredricksen shows up.
And how Carl drifted all the way to Venezuela during his nap and landed exactly on Paradise Falls. I need this locating system for my science!
there’s physics in Star Wars?
Touche.