Scicast

Cinema's mistakes about space (SciCast #603) (2024x31)

Air date: Aug 02, 2024

Science fiction is, at its core, art and entertainment. Its content doesn't have to be scientifically accurate, but only its language and theme. In science fiction, real or imagined science (Asimov's psychohistory and robotics, for example) plays more of a framing and setting role than the main character. Science in sci fi allows the plot to exist, creates space for the plot to unfold... creates the environment in which the characters (scientists or not) will move. Of course, a lot of basic science has been systematically sacrificed for the sake of poetic freedom. Let's take a surgical look at these scientific errors in great works of sci fi. Portuguese - Brazil