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[[File:planets_stars_asteroids_140_8170.jpg|frame| Because... you know... [[Atop the Fourth Wall|space is grape-flavored]].]] |
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{{quote|''Captain, we've been attacked by some sort of force ray! Gah! Gyah! Space air is flooding in!'' |
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''Right. Goggles on!''|''[[The Simpsons]]'', [[Show Within a Show|The Planet from Outer Space]]}} |
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Thanks largely to [[Speculative Fiction]], space is probably one of the most [[Hollywood Science|inaccurately portrayed]] things in modern media, to the extent that complete falsehoods are [[The Coconut Effect|widely accepted]] as fact. |
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This is a very specific kind of [[Did Not Do the Research]], which may have been partially justified in earlier media as [[Science Marches On|the research back then wasn't up to much]]. Modern portrayals of space, however, still haven't changed much from the [[The Asteroid Thicket|rock-filled]], [[Space Is Noisy|noisy]] place which will make an unprotected human instantly [[Explosive Decompression|explode]] into [[Space Is Cold|clouds of ice]]. |
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Some of this is due to a [[Did Not Do the Research|lack of research]] or just [[They Just Didn't Care|lack of interest]]. But most of the modern misrepresentations can be put down to the [[Rule of Cool]] (the idea that [[Space Is Noisy|things with sound]] are cooler, or at least [[Nothing Is Scarier|not as scary]], as [[Alien (franchise)|a famous tagline]] pointed out, as things without), [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|artistic license]], or simply the belief [[Viewers are Morons|that audiences]] [[The Coconut Effect|wouldn't accept it any other way]]. |
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Overlaps [[Artistic License Astronomy]]. Compare [[Space Is Magic]], which goes [[Refuge in Audacity|above and beyond]] mere technical inaccuracy. See also: [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness]], [[The Coconut Effect]]. |
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=== Specific kinds of [[Space Does Not Work That Way]] include: === |
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* [[Arbitrary Maximum Range]] |
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* [[Asteroid Thicket]] |
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* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]] |
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* [[Conveniently-Close Planet]] |
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* [[Explosions in Space]] |
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* [[Explosive Decompression]] |
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* [[Frictionless Reentry]] |
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* [[Gravity Sucks]] |
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* [[In Space Everyone Can See Your Face]] |
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* [[Latex Space Suit]] |
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* [[Old School Dogfighting]] |
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* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]] |
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* [[Single Biome Planet]] |
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* [[Space Clouds]] |
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* [[Space Friction]] |
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* [[Space Is Cold]] |
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* [[Space Is Noisy]] |
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* [[Space Is an Ocean]] |
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* [[Space Zone]] |
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* [[Stealth in Space]] |
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* [[Streaming Stars]] |
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* [[2-D Space]] |
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* [[Universal Universe Time]] |
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* [[Unrealistic Black Hole]] |
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* [[Vulcan Has No Moon]] |
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* [[Weird Moon]] |
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[[Category:Artistic License Physics]] |
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[[Category:Hollywood Science]] |
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[[Category:Tropes in Space]] |
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[[Category:Reality Is Unrealistic]] |
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[[Category:Common Fan Fallacies]] |
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