Alfonso Cuaron's 3D space drama "Gravity" may have impressed several audiences and critics alike, but scientists are having none of it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, a renowned astrophysicist, set his twitter rant mode "ON." He then continues to point out the many inaccuracies he has noticed in the "Gravity" film, headlining them "Mysteries of #Gravity."
He points to such inaccuracies as to why Sandra Bullock's hair was not floating about her head in the zero-gravity scenes, and what she was doing fixing the Hubble telescope when she was, in fact, a medical doctor.
Tyson then later wonders why Bullock's character who is a medical doctor, be getting FYI tips on oxygen deprivation from George Clooney's character.
Other scientists were much harsher. Michael Interbartolo III, NASA Mission Control veteran, wrote the following of the movie "Gravity":
"The way I am seeing it, the shuttle was wings level, payload bay up (Z), right wing into the orbital velocity vector (X direction of travel), nose in Y. The Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris [MMOD] (though most were not really micro Meteoroid) impact puts it into a roll about Y with it still traveling in the velocity vector X, and why are the Forward and Aft reaction control jets not firing to damp the ramp since they were intact in the trailer? When the Remote Manipulator System (RMS, the Shuttle robotic arm) breaks, it was rolling and moving forward with the shuttle, but then with the camera and the Earth in the background the arm goes into a radial direction (Z) away from the earth (thus the opening rate between the shuttle and RMS making it seem like the shuttle is plunging down) with a tumble about the radial axis (now a roll about X)."
(Hopefully you caught his drift. Kindly explain to the rest of us.)
Alfonso Cuaron, who directed "Gravity," (as well as coming-of-age film "Y tu Mama Tambien" trans. And Your Mother Too, and the third "Harry Potter" film) said that he had been expecting the criticism, explaining that he had not set out to make a documentary .
So, do the scientists condemn "Gravity"?
"But if you must know," tweets Tyson, "I enjoyed #Gravity very much."
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