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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elemental" data-source="post: 2639009" data-attributes="member: 7931">A common bug for me is the notion that in space, constant thrust will equal constant motion, and a spacecraft will always travel in the direction it's pointed in. Props to Babylon 5 for avoiding that cliche.The miners taking a minigun with them on a mission to blow up an uninhabited rock has already been mentioned, but the one that made me laugh was the way in which the exploding asteroid could be seen on opposite sides of the world at the same time.Or there's the aliens in Signs, which die on contact with water. So obviously, they invade a planet that's 70% covered in water, where most of the lifeforms are largely made from water and congregate near water supplies, where water is kept close to hand at all times, and where water falls from the sky regularly. Oh, and they don't bother to bring any protective gear or environment suits. Perhaps they were the most useless of the alien military and had been sent on a suicide mission to get them out of the way?Another howler for me was the solar powered subamrine in xXx. One of the things people immediately notice in the deep sea is that it tends to be very dark. So, it's a submarine that will work so long as it stays within about 20ft of the surface at all times. The weird thing was that given the genre, they could have said it was a fictional miniaturised reactor or some such technobabble and I wouldn't have blinked.One film that did make me blink for using good science was Pitch Black. At the start, meteorites strike the ship. Instead of a big lump of stone and a fiery explosion, we get these tiny bullet-like stones that go through the ship and out the other side before anyone even has time to register they're there.</blockquote>

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