"how do u now we cant travel faster than light u dont ha ha" (and other words, if you can call them words, to that effect).
The level of ignorance displayed by the posters here is terrifying. We DO know why you can't travel faster than light. It's not something someone arbitrarily made up because they want to ruin all your fun. It's an aspect of a model of the universe which is constantly tested, and constantly proven. As someone once quipped, changing laws of physics is like eating peanuts -- you can't stop with one. They all fit together in an intricate puzzle, and the only way to prove them wrong is to build an entirely new model which a)explains absolutely everything the old model explains, and, b)explains something new the old model doesn't. No one's managed to come up with one yet... and I wouldn't bet on one arriving anytime soon.
(As for humanoid life on another world... think of all the many ways life evolved on this one world, the incredible diversity of species. Do you honestly think that some other world would produce anything remotely like humanity? Even if you go with the idea of some alien 'seeding' program as Star Trek did, consider this: The difference between a shrew and a blue whale is about 100 million years of evolution. Planting the same 'seed' a BILLION years ago on two different planets, and the resulting life forms will have nothing in common.)
Most of the "mistakes" noted in the article are not so much errors as plot contrivances -- they're no more mistakes, per se, than the "computers" on CSI (which do things no real computer can do), or the acrobatic stunts of any action movie (most action heroes would be dead or crippled for life before the first act was over...). If you want to say the author of the article is just trying to be a downer, well, that's cool -- but to claim that the things he points out AREN'T error of science is to show an astounding level of ignorance.
There's nothing he lists which falls into the category of "We just don't know". We DO know. YOU may not know, but that's your problem, lint-for-brains.
Not the article. The comments.
"how do u now we cant travel faster than light u dont ha ha" (and other words, if you can call them words, to that effect).
The level of ignorance displayed by the posters here is terrifying. We DO know why you can't travel faster than light. It's not something someone arbitrarily made up because they want to ruin all your fun. It's an aspect of a model of the universe which is constantly tested, and constantly proven. As someone once quipped, changing laws of physics is like eating peanuts -- you can't stop with one. They all fit together in an intricate puzzle, and the only way to prove them wrong is to build an entirely new model which a)explains absolutely everything the old model explains, and, b)explains something new the old model doesn't. No one's managed to come up with one yet... and I wouldn't bet on one arriving anytime soon.
(As for humanoid life on another world... think of all the many ways life evolved on this one world, the incredible diversity of species. Do you honestly think that some other world would produce anything remotely like humanity? Even if you go with the idea of some alien 'seeding' program as Star Trek did, consider this: The difference between a shrew and a blue whale is about 100 million years of evolution. Planting the same 'seed' a BILLION years ago on two different planets, and the resulting life forms will have nothing in common.)
Most of the "mistakes" noted in the article are not so much errors as plot contrivances -- they're no more mistakes, per se, than the "computers" on CSI (which do things no real computer can do), or the acrobatic stunts of any action movie (most action heroes would be dead or crippled for life before the first act was over...). If you want to say the author of the article is just trying to be a downer, well, that's cool -- but to claim that the things he points out AREN'T error of science is to show an astounding level of ignorance.
There's nothing he lists which falls into the category of "We just don't know". We DO know. YOU may not know, but that's your problem, lint-for-brains.