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ddeclue

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5. I happen to be a pilot and my degree is aerospace engineering so I'm right there on that one.

Reply to Ohio Joe (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 10, 2012, 08:44 PM

Jan 2012

I really hated the 2001 movie Pearl Harbor. A million aviation things wrong. The biggest one was when the Doolittle Raider plane which was out of bombs, bullets and gas crashes in China and yes.. you guessed it... it exploded... what was left to explode? the aluminum?

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Science in the real world vs. on TV.... [View all] ddeclue Jan 2012 OP

I used to watch "The New Detectives", a true-crime show that was forensics-based, gkhouston Jan 2012 #1

My problem is being an engineer and computer programmer and knowing better... ddeclue Jan 2012 #2

Everyone sees the errors in how their field is portrayed on TV Ohio Joe Jan 2012 #3

I happen to be a pilot and my degree is aerospace engineering so I'm right there on that one. ddeclue Jan 2012 #5

coupla possibilities... bongbong Jan 2012 #8

nope just dumb writers. It could be a horse and buggy tumbling off a cliff and they would have ddeclue Jan 2012 #9

Science, real world vs. TV rt-sails Jan 2012 #4

Yes but if it is clearly science fiction you get a total pass on reality...when it claims to be ddeclue Jan 2012 #6

Glad you mentioned this customerserviceguy Jan 2012 #7