Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:24:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Drive to make Hollywood obey the laws of science
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

 Michael Walsh <mjw at press.jhu.edu>

>Are there any good SF movies that obey the laws of
>science ... completely obey?

Not just good ones - any at all.  Because:
if they obeyed all the currently known laws of science,
would they be SF? Or would they just be science movies,
maybe using some area of science that nobody's bothered
with because it's too piffling?

OR some of the "forbidden/fantastic" science that is real
but is currently being ignored?  That of course depends on
which areas of fringe science each person currently accepts.

Remember, in my memory - the 1950s - tectonic plate
movement was denied officially.  In my father's day (1920s)
he argued with his college physics teacher that since nobody
had seen an atom, and they were an intellectual construct,
they could be divided because any idea can be divided.

If someone had written a story in 1955 about cloned cats
that glow green under UV light, it would have been sent to
a fantasy magazine because the science would have been
too ridiculous.

=Tamar