When you hear about the excellent book The Physics of Superheroes and the various success stories of comic book writers who understood physics and applied them to their storytelling, you come to wonder exactly how anyone in that industry can be this moronic:
Mr Hyde, a big, burly, mad scientist, is struggling with Ant Man’s daughter.
Ant Man, for the uninitiated, had the ability to grow or shrink his body at will. His daughter has the same power.
Anyhow, she’s trying to grow bigger so she can throttle Mr Hyde’s phenomenal comic book neck when he swings her around and shouts:
“The bigger they are… The more likely they are to fall at six times the acceleration due to gravity!”
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What. The. Fuck.
Seriously… Did this writer take idiot pills when he wrote this? Did he fail, not only High School physics, but Elementary School physics?!
Gravity! C’mon people! It’s a uniform force on this earth! 9.8ms^-1! The same no matter how heavy you are! Oh dear god! Galileo proved this over 400 years ago! How stupid do you have to be!? The fact that the writer actually submitted this script is bad enough, but somehow it got past editors!
Holy crap! How does he think Airplanes fly if someone 6 times heavier than a human is subject to 6 times the gravitational force!?
I’ll be ok in a bit. First I have to go freak out Sean by pasting the script to him. This thing will probably kill a physics major like him. Mwahahha!
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at November 5, 2005 12:15 PM