Top 20 Movies With BS Science

[@WatchMojo]

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[@krymera666x7]

So you’re going to pick a bunch of popcorn movies and pick them apart?

[@vegandeathkiss]

It's called Science "Fiction" for a reason goofy

[@robbie1898]

You’re telling me science fiction movies are science fiction 😢

[@marikothecheetah9342]

Oh, a kid born long after hard sci-fi times...

[@toddboughn5168]

Reality is for those who can't handle science fiction.

[@DrinkTheKoolAid62]

There's science fiction and there's science fantasy

[@alm2187]

Compare these films to Interstellar and The Martian, for starters.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@DrinkTheKoolAid62 perfect! Thank you!

[@scottieman2]

I'm totally watching these movies for accurate science. Like Abe Lincoln vampire hunter is real.

[@WatchMojo]

[@thegoldenorder1240]

Science Fiction is science based creative work not based on fact. This entire list is pointless.

[@scottieman2]

@thegoldenorder1240 most of the list videos are pointless they make

[@joseosorio5499]

Shut up thats not real????

[@gloria88246]

Exactly im with you 💯💯💯👍

[@triniborn76]

Watching this video is like going to the movies with Neil Degrassi Tyson! 😂

[@outforit692]

Or with Sheldon Cooper 😂

[@DeejayNiXoT]

It's kinda stupid to add movies like Superman.. Since when is such a movie supposed to be realistic? They're talking about the fact you can't be faster than light etc.. But being ultra strong, able to fly etc is fine? Okay, well then

[@ARIXANDRE]

Well, Jurassic Park made us believe...even if for a couple minutes.

[@JeremyGlenesk]

Important to note that Star Wars isn't science fiction, it's space fantasy. Many other actual science fiction films do the same thing with space, because watching space battles with no sound would be super boring to watch.

[@SlasherInSuits]

Freddy Krueger can’t kill you in a dream? 😂

[@CaptainMarvelsSon]

*_Weird Science:_* Creating a living, breathing human using a 1980s computer with CAD software.

[@alm2187]

Haven't seen it but isn't she a robot?

[@seeeyegee3061]

Okay, hold on. You leave Superman alone.

[@brucehastings8825]

Yes

[@Nbafan416]

Womp womp

[@jackrodakthemovieguy1726]

Look man I’m sorry, Superman is a great movie and everything, But the logic involving him spinning with the earth and all that is still incredibly stupid

[@nobodynoonenowhere5609]

Amen to that,bro😊

[@darkscoutergamer6168]

@@Nbafan416?🤣😭

[@Dopecheetah]

Superman didn’t make the earth rotate backwards to go back in time. Superman was flying back in time. Richard Donner couldn’t really figure out how to visualize that. So Donner made the earth rotate backwards. Arguably Donner could have done a bit of a better job showing us.

[@alm2187]

Yup! Such a widely corrected misconception. Surprised there aren't more of us in comments pointing it out. The announcer also implies a problem with Supes performing the feat within the Earth's atmosphere which, visibly, he doesn't. I understand (or at least I trust to) the mass problem, though.

[@codyhiginbotham6616]

See this is actually what I love about sci-fi. The science can be as fictional and ridiculous as possible, and yet (when told right) it’s still entertaining

[@cyrussoxlegion]

To be fair... the science in pretty much every sci-fi movie is broken. The rare exception being probably something like interstellar. I have to admit, I'm really surprised that the black hole didn't make this list!!!!

[@davefreier7738]

Interstellar, while it does more or less stick to things that are possible in theory, takes some real liberties with proven science.

[@JollyJeff]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” is a quote from Arthur C. Clarke. Everything about Superman appears to be magic because it is based on science that is so far advanced that we can't understand it properly. Superman reversing the spin of the Earth to turn back time is misunderstood. In the comics, Superman flies faster than the speed of light to go back in time. The way the special effects for that scene go is confusing. In that scene, Superman is flying around the Earth and going into the past. This is represented by showing everything going backward. But the Earth itself is NOT going backward. The director showed everything going backward to show to the audience, visually, that Superman is going back in time. Saying that it is impossible to go faster than the speed of light ignores that Superman has abilities that no person or machine has ever had. It is also impossible for a person to fly without help, shoot lasers from their eyes, or have bullets bounce off their chest. Also, it is a theory that faster-than-light travel is impossible. No machine has been created that can come close to the speed of light so it is unknown what would happen.

[@tremblingaspen]

My geology professor in university used to do this (take Hollywood movies and explain what was wrong with the science). He spent a lot of time on Dante’s Peak.

[@lillordakira9752]

I'm still puzzled how cypher managed to plug himself in the Matrix to make the deal with Agent Smith and get out without any help.

[@CassandraY]

I'm pretty sure I read an article where the Wachowski's confirmed that Cypher wrote an automated code to do it. That was why he was so jumpy when Neo came up behind him in that one scene. Also, he didn't have to be subtle about entering the Matrix since he wanted Agent Smith to find him.

[@theman4884]

I am not sure which was the dumber concept, that humans could be used as a power source or that the 1990's were the height of human creativity.

[@CassandraY]

@@theman4884 Even the bad movies were watchable when compared to movies today. Nothing but reboots, reimaginings, or legacy sequels. We'll never get a movie like The First Wives Club today.

[@theman4884]

@@CassandraY There were plenty of remakes and sequels in the 90s. I can find it or I would post Norm McDonald's SNL bit where he mentioned what was happening at the box office. "The First Wives Club" has dropped out of the top spot at the box office replaced by the Younger Prettier Second Wives Club.

[@CassandraY]

@@theman4884 I'm not saying there weren't, but they hadn't taken over like they do now. It seems like so many movies, TV shows, and even video games are just recycling tired old tropes and plots that have been done a hundred times without adding even the basic level of creativity to make it their own. IMO, movies of the 90's were made by writers while movies today are made by executives.

[@shinjisan2015]

What wasn't explained, but should have been in a matter of 30 seconds in Independence Day, was that humanity had been reverse engineering the alien technology piece by piece since the 1950s. This means the human computer systems developed were based on the alien systems making it easy for someone to create the viral payload once the alien ship woke up and they had full access and 40 years of knowledge behind them. That reverse engineering was accelerated after the attack when more ships were available to cannibalise, and that was explained in the second movie.

[@ShadyKray]

So you're telling me after all these years I wasn't watching science documentaries!? What a jip.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

A film can be enjoyable with a fairly accurate science, it doesn't turn you into nerd, don't worry, for that you'd actually have to learn something.

[@randolphcroft4212]

Hell, I was an athlete in my 30's and now that I'm in my 60's, if I trip and fall down I would probably cripple myself.

[@jakenkid]

Hold on... Superman, an alien that gets energy from the sun that makes him invulnerable, and has the ability to *MAGICALLY FLY SOME-CRAZY-HOW*... I'M JUST FLUSTERED... He didn't turn the earth backwards, he didn't fly in it's atmosphere, he flew faster than the speed of light and reversed time, *BECAUSE HE HAS FUCKING MAGICAL POWERS AND IS INVULNERABLE* What the hell are you talking about!?

[@alm2187]

Interestingly zany way to make a largely good point. 🤗

[@ChimbaMutale]

James bond is science fact according to the producer.

[@alm2187]

You mean Barbara? What'd she say about the science?

[@herlandercarvalho]

It would be more logical to do the reverse, "Top 20 movies with good science", since the VAST majority of movies (and TV Shows) have bad science.

[@newsmith]

I love that you left out the entire Fast and Furious franchise. They are notorious for defying physics and gravity.

[@alm2187]

Sure but most (maybe all?) of these have a clear sci-fi element.

[@LucasDuffeck]

I've heard that in the initial scripts for Matrix the human brains were used to process data (as biological CPUs), but the change from that to power sources were pushed my producers/execs because they thought it was easier to explain that to the audience

[@wilsoncrunch1330]

Independence day had 50 years to break into their code. Unfortunately the Director cut the scene showing how they had cracked the code.

[@davidchism6081]

With Star Wars, you'd want accuracy, or action, sounds, ground based air battles(I'm aware of the oxymoron).

[@alm2187]

Right. So, umm, start over. 🤗

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Are you guys about to tell me that cars don't explode every time they're in a minor collision? Because I don't want to live in that world.

[@dragonweyr44]

Twister: Wouldn't they have been cut in half by the belt as well? After Earth,: not to mention, the weather patterns wouldn't change that radically either Die Another Day: Of course, the bad guy in a Bond movie CAN'T be an Asian guy

[@andrewhaase1826]

Dishonorable Mention: *Common sense, what's that? - Superman 4: The Quest For Peace -This film is unbelievably scientifically inaccurate, even by comic book movie standards. To the point where Superman reversing the planet's rotation almost seems quaint.

[@alm2187]

You're against nuclear weapons disposal in the sun? Or you can't fix the Great Wall of China by staring at it? Or you can't pound a super-clone into the lunar surface like a stake? What all do you take issue with, here? 🤗

[@MichaelMarquez-m3b]

The thing I always found funny about Jurassic Park is that they talk about how the closest genetic still living species to dinosaurs are birds and then when they need to fill gaps in the DNA they use a frog.

[@YavorM-Yash]

They needed it for the plot - the ability to change sexes under circumstances.

[@MichaelMarquez-m3b]

@@YavorM-Yash That’s why it was so lame.

[@theman4884]

@@YavorM-Yash They could/should have used alligators. Alligators can also change sex and (bird, sure but nobody wants feathery dinosaurs) people associate them being more closely related to dinosaurs.

[@YavorM-Yash]

@@theman4884 maybe so, but they decided this.

[@SirsasthNigam.]

Science "fiction"

[@thegoldenorder1240]

Thank you God. Finally someone with a brain that reads books.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

"Science" fiction, also known as futurology, in its early days was a speculative fiction, very much based on science (hence science in the name) and predicted some believable outcomes, that would be probable, based on what was known then. Some of them came true, like many gadgets we have today.

[@BlackHatCinephile]

🥉

[@lad4702]

@@marikothecheetah9342 i was thinking along them lines? .... say a film abar 40 years ago? And they had advanced communications (the internet?) Or phones you can video call on? That would be classed as science fiction back then? But its "normal" for a lot of people now days? 🤔

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@lad4702 you just contradicted yourself. All that we have now is science, what science fiction did was to speculate, based on the science that was available then. A lot of the stuff became available to us now. It was called science fiction because it didn't involve real people and real stories but speculations were real.

[@davidchism6081]

Number 20: Wasn't it said that showing the planet going the opposite direction wasn't meant to be taken liberally? As in, it was only meant to show that Clark was going past the speed of light, going FAR past the speed of light that he'd time traveled back in time. The planet's reverse rotation was only to indicate time travel, not literal rotation reversal, which would cause far greater damage to the planet.

[@theman4884]

How about Speed? The bus jump was bad enough; but the ending where the subway train crashes through a city block's worth of dirt and concrete. It would have crushed like a soda can.

[@Keith-b4v]

You forgot with Superman flying at the speed of light, he would also have to deal with time dilation. He would remain the same age as all life on earth would have aged.

[@alm2187]

Uhhh...if you're saying he can't go back in time, okay. If you allow that he can reach the past, you haven't hit on much of a problem. Sure, the film doesn't show civilization aging as he accelerates. Suppose that happens without us seeing it, though. Ultimately, Supes is still going back into the past, just enough that Lois hasn't been killed, yet. So, effectively, he goes forward in time via dilation, then backward per the film premise. Problem?

[@Keith-b4v]

@@alm2187 "If you allow that he can reach the past, you haven't hit on much of a problem. " The film shows that he is going into the past by traveling at the speed of light, that's not how physics works. The faster you travel in space; the more time stretches and compress around you. " Sure, the film doesn't show civilization aging as he accelerates. Suppose that happens without us seeing it, though. Ultimately, Supes is still going back into the past, just enough that Lois hasn't been killed, yet. So, effectively, he goes forward in time via dilation, then backward per the film premise. Problem?" What do you mean? The whole scene we see Superman reverse time when traveling at lightspeed, which is impossible. When you travel that fast, you can't go into the past, you can only travel into the future. That's how time dilation works, hence the huge issue with that scene. No matter how fast Superman travels, he will never be able to travel into the past, he can only go forward.

[@Excanda]

Number 10 is why Star Wars is seen as Fantasy and *not* Sci-Fi. Though Star Trek, which is based in Science Fiction, does the cardinal sin of sounds in space too.

[@alm2187]

Note Firefly as an exception. For the most part, call it inconsequential in Star Trek and Star Wars since the characters aren't shown hearing it. The strangest stretch I know of is Ep II when the Fetts use sonic depth charges, or whatever they're called. It's easy to ignore the constant sound in space. Call it just stylistic. Then there's this one scene with the secret weapon for which sound designers created a highly distinctive effect. It just draws attention to the problem! Why'd they do it?

[@Excanda]

@@alm2187 They do it so the watchers have something to listen to while watching the scene. Interstellar is the first movie to fully adhere to the rules of space that we know of.

[@thegoldenorder1240]

Its called Science Fiction. Fiction: A creative work not based on fact. Do you even understand the basis behind the genre?

[@Denis-89]

It is supposed to have a science origin though. Like research and so. You can be realistic and still entertain

[@foxymetroid]

Science fiction has science in the name for a reason. At least make an effort.

[@thegoldenorder1240]

@foxymetroid Its Fiction. Not fact. It doesn't have to be at all. Watch a documentary.

[@PrinceTrexus]

Another thing about the transformers one is that the autobots/decepticons bodies are made of metal. So even if Optimus Prime was trying to safely catch Shia LaBeouf falling, because Optimus is made of metal, Shia would hit Optimus's hand and the impact would be the same as if he'd jumped off a building and landed on a parked car

[@Heathcoatman]

Not much different from John Wick being tossed at high speed into vans, trucks and cars repeatedly, completely crunching those vehicles, and just getting up and walking away. I think he took out 7 vehicles with his body in 4 without a single broken bone. Dont you know that you can claim every single movie character is now a superhero and everyone just buys it?

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@PrinceTrexus if it's a sentient being though, he could give with the impact to soften it. Like catching an egg. If you do it right, someone can throw and egg to you pretty hard and you can catch it without breaking it. We used to do it in baseball, to practice having "soft hands" when you field ground balls.

[@caronstout354]

The Island- the idea that life memories are encoded in the DNA and can be "remembered" by a clone...

[@CandiceVidito32]

Indiana Jones surviving an explosion by hiding in a fridge.

[@mamalannightshyaman]

It’s in the vid

[@Gor85]

These are stories. Fiction. No place for logic whatsoever. Star Wars is wonderful movie. Jurassic Park makes some sense. Indy maybe could have survive in refrigerator. Great list

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video watch mojo,fantastic job.

[@bheast86]

No INTERSTELLAR? They considered time dilation, which is an established element of printed sci-fi that few movies/TV consider, but viable planets orbiting a black hole, travel into the singularity is pretty bad, like the waves the size of mountains that don't pulverise what they land on. The Nolan Bros do that a lot in the Dark Knight trilogy, with Batman able to glide by stretching out his cloak, or a big aircraft being able to fly with a smaller one hanging from it (and its engines going downwards)

[@Tremaine27]

What about the Flash .. you gonna cut down Superman but not the Flash?? What about the movie Face Off?

[@alm2187]

If you mean the Ezra Miller movie, it's such a mishmash of one problematic premise after another that nothing stands out for analysis. Helps if it has a little more focus. If it had less nonsense, any given aspect would be simpler to evaluate. It's like if you find a textbook that tells you there are only four elements, that heat is caused by caloric, that ether is beyond the stratosphere, and that Earth is the center of a rather small universe. Maybe toss in infinite turtles for good measure. If we wanted to address the problem with all that, where would we even start? 😆 What's the problem with the science in that unfortunate excuse for a first Flash film? Want to explore the science of falling babies in microwaves? Or analyze what causes blackish growths on obsessive doppelgangers? Or follow up after a character ACTUALLY POINTS OUT that Affleck and Clooney and Keaton aren't the same man? Anyway, you probably thought of it because of the time travel. With Superman, this vid sums up sufficiently why the science is wrong. With that Flash film, all it could say is that that's no kinda science.

[@shivamchoudhary2840]

Hey man, Great video. Just wanted to know do you use AI Voice?

[@TheWorldMemeDatabase]

I like to fanfic that Clooney's character was so fed up with life that he just dipped out when he saw the chance. Bullock's character was too green to realize what happened and went along with it.

[@jackdavinci]

You're about half right with Lucy. We do use all the parts of the brain to some extent continuously, and the old ten percent of the brain figure is somewhat made up. But while it was poorly understood and described, the underlying premise is still correct. The brain does have natural variability in performance, even for an individual over the course of a day. Training can improve performance, and certain chemicals or ems stimulation can overclock it even more. This isn't even science fiction, many people do it right now. Obviously training requires effort and maintenance, and stimulation is not sustainable and has potential side effects. We can't currently get to the insane levels of brain power in certain films, but the levels we can achieve are still remarkable, and there's no known fundamental obstacle preventing the technology from getting even better.

[@bagerklestyne]

Sorry but "The Core" is completely factual thanks to unobtanium.

[@randolphcroft4212]

And for fun, we have 'zombies' as living dead predators without bodily functions. 'Living' for years. But I've seen bodies. Dried husks. Crunchy.

[@Paradigmfusion]

in these cases you just gotta ignore the science and enjoy the ride, especially in a Michael Bay movie.

[@DonSmookFlame]

Hearing "the rest of your body functions work normal" was a lil chilling

[@kennethaldred6659]

I’m sure other people have said this but…. Superman did NOT reverse the rotation of the earth. He was moving backwards in time which gave the illusion of the earth rotating backwards. But he was moving backwards in time not reversing the earths rotation

[@chillikoala]

Technically speaking, he connected a Mac to an Alien computer system.

[@joermnyc]

#20, the Earth itself is not going backwards, it’s moving backwards relative to Superman’s perspective because he’s going back in time. However, flying close to the speed of light would actually move him FORWARDS in time due to Time Dilation.

[@vedahenerhenson5021]

Wow, this is new... science is everywhere

[@alexhudson2023]

Not only are they inside the f 5 tornado but they would literally have the air sucked out of there lungs and suffocated

[@youarelegend-bio]

00:00 - 01:10 Superman flying fast enough to reverse time? Impossible, yet we’re all in for the ride! Physics says no, but Hollywood says 'hold my cape!' Wouldn't you love to see what happens when a man flies at the speed of light?

[@richardgriffin3853]

You forgot about the Geostorm!!!! Talk about bad science 🙄

[@chronoplex89]

Superman perform the first Flashpoint Paradox before The Flash ever did

[@arfinjalal4563]

He knew flash powers

[@OriginZer0]

I'd like to propose Weird Science.

[@lacrartezorok4975]

Until something can reach light speed you can't know for sure what happens and what doesn't. Also, that's why he went to space, to fly in the void where he wouldn't cause any friction.

[@davidchism6081]

13:52. AAAAAUUUUGGHHH!!!!!! I THINK I BROKE EVERY BONE IN MY BODY!!!! HISHE.

[@scottmelville3476]

So Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich don't understand science? Who knew?

[@olafschluter706]

Gravity: there is the clever suggestion that the ISS was rotating around its center of mass as a result of the catastrophe. This would put strain on the lines of Bullock and Clooney due to centrifugal force. However, there is no visual hint in the movie suggesting that the ISS is indeed rotating. Wiith Moonfall there are a lot of issues: under no circumstances would gravity turn direction towards the moon. But that is shown in the movie as a consequence of the moon almost touching the earth surface. At the surface of the moon gravity is one sixth of that of earth. Thus the minimum of gravity with the moon falling down to earth would 5/6 of the normal value toward earth center. Then a white dwarf fitting inside the moon would have so much mass that earth would be the moon of the moon, not the other way around, and the moon would form a binary star system with the sun (white dwarf masses increase with smaller radii, they are collapsed stars not heavy enough to form a neutron star or a black hole, but as in those the dominating force is gravity pulling matter toward the center, more matter, more force, more condensed matter). That movie is science BS at full display. The annoying thing is it sounds like it wants its science to be taken seriously. That is e.g. definitely not the case with Star Wars. And all Roland Emmerich movies ("Independence day", "The day after tomorrow", "2012").

[@alm2187]

Understood at 17:54 that no manmade bomb can blow up such a massive asteroid and, if one could, the debris would still be on-course for Earth. Isn't there a certain point at which debris isn't a problem, though? Atmospheric friction burns small objects away.

[@willo283]

saying MJ didn't do what he did based on science?

[@davidchism6081]

They do lampshade a lot of things in The Core.

[@darkfangunlimited1289]

Aye man I already knew this I was just in denial 😢😢😢

[@michaelcarbone6101]

BS? Bachelors of Science?

[@alm2187]

7:22 Right; "wouldn't almost anything make a better battery than a human body? Like a baked potato? Or a battery?" 😜🔋🥔🔋 Anyway, though, feels almost criminal not to mention the bts farce that lead to this. The script had it that the human brain had computational properties which machines couldn't synthesize. Their purpose in enslaving humans was therefore for use as "parallel processors." WB bigwigs feared audiences wouldn't know what the frag that meant. The body-heat-to-battery-power premise was suggested as an expedient. (Was it Joel Silver specifically or did he defend the script as written?)

[@kennethholder8412]

20:38 😂 that 90s cheese

[@thomasgilbert2266]

Yeah cause we watched these movies for the realism 😂😂😂

[@aljawad]

Any space opera where sound is heard in space…

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

So fallout got that idea from Indiana Jones.

[@alm2187]

Similarly, after the fridge thuds back down to the ground, Indy falls out. 😜

[@herlandercarvalho]

The Core should be the #1, and the one you picked as #1, is not that unfeasible. Hormones and other substances, can in effect change facial structure, this is part of anyone's development, testosterone and estrogen have an impact on how the morphology of the human body develops. Skin can be bleached and made lighter. Prosthetics. Make-up. All morphological differences there are between races, are superficial. Is it possible with today's technology? No... Could it be in the future? Maybe, CRISP-R is one of the major technologies being developed as a way to edit genetic make-up. But, something that is made to look like someone else, are superficial, and not at all unfeasible. But putting it as #1 when compared to The Core, is an absurd choice. Science fiction, as the name implies, is making fictional use of science. Gene editing to change a human's appearance is in fact very close to be achievable. Travelling to the center of a planet with an molten interior? Not so much...

[@alm2187]

Also weird that D.A.D. is on the list because of bad-guys getting facials and not because dubiously described technology turns 007's car invisible.

[@rpelletier2771]

Michael Jackson

[@angelomendoza1174]

You missed the climatic airlock scene from Aliens.

[@alm2187]

What was the problem on that one? Did Ripley position herself where she should've been sucked out too?

[@lauracat33]

They are just MOVIES!! They're not documentaries! You can have your characters do whatever you want in a MOVIE!!!!! Many movies are based on Comic Books, Novels, Graphic Novels, etc. They can take any of that information, and make a movie.

[@jackdavinci]

Indeed. But it's still fun to to talk about, and interesting to use it as way to highlight the real science involved

[@TheNorwog]

I really believe Limitless should have been on this list

[@jackdavinci]

The film exaggerated the science, but the premise itself is sound. You can indeed overclock various brain functions using chemicals. People do it now. Just not to such an extent or as reliably.

[@alm2187]

19:33 You put D.A.D. as number ONE?!? 😲 You put D.A.D. as number one because the antagonist has A COSMETIC PROCEDURE?!? It's got an invisible car too, yet one guy GETTING A FACIAL is what you're going with?!?🤣

[@gevorg1989]

If it's science fiction, then why not? About Bond race.

[@Toledotourbillion]

So we're going to ignore MCU? Ok.😅

[@samanthacole9562]

Yeah the acolyte, fires in space. Among everything else sooo STUPID

[@marikothecheetah9342]

I love how people defend the wrong science in movies, thinking they're cute by being sarcastic over purely fantastic films. In my country we laugh at how inaccurate American movies using "science" are. :D

[@theman4884]

I am sure your country gets the science bang on.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@theman4884 it actually does.

[@theman4884]

@@marikothecheetah9342 Name a science fiction film from your country.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@theman4884 we had mostly books, though. And sci-fi comedies, that were not serious from the get go.

[@NICKARRIOLA16]

8:05: That's what Raj said

[@ERJOGAZ]

Actually, evolution is accelerated during eras of sudden change of the food chain. If humans had been an important part of that chain, then them leaving may have destabilized the pecking order so much, that 90 percent of all creatures and plantlife, may have died immediately, leaving only those with existing mutations that may have otherwise not made such a difference the dominant species. In certain isolated areas of the world, it has been recorded that certain species (mostly birds) have evolved significantly in less than 100 years.

[@marikothecheetah9342]

not in a macroscale. Micro - yes, not macro, not across all ecosystems.

[@ERJOGAZ]

@marikothecheetah9342 imagine a nuclear winter that destroys almost everything. The only animals that survive are those with existing mutations or fortitude to thrive. Imagine some feral humans survive and try to scrounge on the few species that remain. After a few dozen generations, you'll only have species that can survive the remaining radiation and the humans, or just the humans remain. In this case - the animals won, and continued to multiply over hundreds of years.

[@CassiusSharp]

1:07 So He’d need to be Superman

[@doctorwyvern9992]

How about creating an artificial black hole to move from one point to another instantaneously? Event Horizon if anyone’s not familiar with that.

[@margaretalbrecht4650]

You sound like Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy page.

[@nicholashqar1654]

Roland emmerich movies are bs science but are fun to watch them ❤❤

[@Animeguy300]

Interesting list

[@kelvincannon3675]

I’m a little tea-cup bc “carbon emissions” are enough “to make significant adaptations in this lifetime… …if people can navigate from one side of the country, in planes, trains, & or automobiles, much faster than Neanderthals could 10,000 yrs ago then, & here it’s safe to conclude that “massive evolutionary changes” can be “witnessed” in this lifetime… …exclusivities reserved for the elite’s the only thing keeping mere mortals, from experiencing the fruits of technological advancements, not “natural selection,” so in the case of a mad scientist, nuclear power plant catastrophe, the possibility of an evolution occurring beyond humanity’s capacity of comprehension, isn’t any more “deeply flawed” than the fact that “unnecessary vulnerabilities” persist in plain-sight, while ignorance still allows the system, to cast the first stone for “the system’s” negligence/flaw… …with “vulnerabilities” persistence in plain-sight, suppressing more innovation means of crime prevention, in favor of obsolete first responder measures, that only stay outta redundancy, at the expense of yet another victim, there ain’t no telling what other vital means of depriving innate instincts are rampantly unnoticed in plain-sight!

[@mattcraft7164]

This was a fun one!

[@alm2187]

Okay, so, the allusion at 6:36 is to a movie that will be 20 years old as of the day after tomorrow. Sounds momentous! What movie is it, though?

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Planet of The Apes - Science has proven Evolution moves forward not backwards so humans wouldn't devolve back into apes.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

"Forward" and "backwards" are pretty subjective when we're talking about evolution though, what might be an advantage in one environment might be a disadvantage in other environments. If humans were a move forward from other apes, then other apes wouldn't exist anymore.

[@Heathcoatman]

A complete misunderstanding of evolution. There is no 'forward or backward'

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

​@@HeathcoatmanHave you ever heard of a frog turning back into a tadpole?

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@user-em6ie2be7x you don't get evolution process, do you? :/

[@theman4884]

That is not what happened in Planet of the Apes. Humans did not evolve into apes. The apes continued to evolve becoming smarter and developing the ability to speak. Humans did not devolve their society collapsed, something that has happened repeatedly throughout history.

[@daveerk6573]

SCIENCE "FICTION" 😂😅

[@watzOnUrBCK_80]

it's called, movies

[@Wesker113A]

You're not supposed to understand Hollywood logic just enjoy what they give us to watch 🙃

[@thegoldenorder1240]

Science Fiction = Creative works of science not based upon facts. This list is pointless.

[@Wesker113A]

@@thegoldenorder1240 it really is pointless lol

[@marikothecheetah9342]

@@thegoldenorder1240 that is not what it meant when it first came out. It certainly means this now, as people are dumber and dumber :/

[@gloria88246]

Sorry watch mojo I love your channel but your science in your script isn't exactly disproving any of the stuff for me lol The title should be far-fetched ideas in movies instead 😂

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Did nuking the fridge bend, even break, the laws of science? Yes. Is it still an enjoyable _Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ scene? That depends on who you ask.

[@alm2187]

Yes... Yes, you can come by someone who'll give you a general yes on that... On rare occasion, you can find someone who'd give you a general yes on that...

[@JamieBettison]

love Watchmojo, but.... wtf are you doing with that evil awful horrible background music? Remove it if you want your subscriber numbers to remain amongst the hard of hearing community?!?!!!