Ben321
2009-Aug-09, 03:47 AM
I know of 5 obvious ones. But there's probably many more. But I'll leave them to be mentioned by other forum-goers.
#1: In the anime Sailor Moon, the main character Usagi Tsukino is the modern day reincarnation of the princess of the Moon Kingdom, an ancient kingdom on the moon. While her modern reincarnation is born on the earth, her "original" was born over 1000 years ago on the moon, a Princess Serenity. The moon people look like regular humans, but obviously aren't as humans live on the earth and back in the middle ages there were no astronauts to go to the moon The kingdom on the moon has since ceased to exist due to alien invasion. And the same is about to happen to humanity as the aliens are now about to attack the earth, with Sailor Moon being the only hero who can stop them.
Nice sci-fi story, but the science is TERRIBLE. Now I have several things to say about this story. First, is life (especially inteligent life) as we know it requires an atmosphere to breath. There is no air on the moon. So that means life shouldn't be able to exist there without space suits. Also, reincarnation is a spiritual subject and therefore can't even be analyzed scientifically so shall remain not analyzed in this post. And finally, we have no proof of aliens EVER visiting the earth (or the moon for that matter), and DEFINITELY no alien invasion has taken place on the earth (in spite of this being a staple of sci-fi films). Currently any so called "evidence" of alien visitations of the earth is sketchy at best.
#2: In the sci-fi show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, there are alien enemies of earth living on the moon. The aliens can travel to the earth to invade in about 1 second.
The first thing that that is rediculous is the same as in my last post, there is no air on the moon so life couldn't exist. Secondly, to reach the earth from the moon in 1 to 2 seconds, you'd have to be traveling near, or even above the speed of light (depending on your exact travel time). Traveling this fast would require technology that currently is out of our reach and if faster than light, would be impossible. Lets just hope any hostile aliens that MIGHT exist aren't this advanced in their technology.
3#: Back to Sailor Moon, it seems that when they transform, they convert their bodies to energy, then materialize their new super hero costumes on themselves, and finally convert their bodies back to matter, ready to fight the invading aliens.
Now the ONLY science behind this that is correct is that indeed matter CAN be converted to energy and back. The rest is pure fantasy, as is the possibility of containing, and controlling or manipulating that energy so that when it is converted back into matter it is in the exact shape you wanted (preferably in the shape of a super hero costume). The problem with containing the energy is that with Einstein's equation E=m*c^2 you would have a HUGE amount of energy released. In this case you are taking the mass of a 14 year old girl and her regular outfit, and converting it into energy so that part of it can be manipulated into the shape of a super hero costume before rematerialization. Taking the mass of a person and converting it into pure energy to start with would needless to say release so much energy that you would make an explosion big enough that you wouldn't even want to be ANYWHERE on the earth when it happened. That is she'd nuke herself and our whole planet which she was trying to protect as she attempted to "transform" into her super hero mode so she could save it. Bad idea.
#4: Back to Power Rangers again. But this time, lets look at Power Rangers in Space. The problem I saw REALLY stand out was in the final episode, where after analyzing sensor data on their hyperdrive equipped starship called the Astro Megaship, the came to the conclusion that the enemy aliens were trying to "conquer the whole universe" (this assuming it seems that intelligent life is abundant with at least one planet around every star or at least nearly every star could support intelligent life which would have to be "conquered", as seemed to be implied in the show). That statement was ridiculous to say the least. For aliens who could conquer our planet after maybe a week of fighting, the prospect of conquering every planet even in our own Milky Way galaxy would be ridiculous. And to do so to every galaxy in the known universe would be that level of ridiculousness times the number of galaxies in the visible universe. But since the whole universe is theoretically INFINITELY large, then it would be impossible even if 10^100 generations of hostile aliens tried it, as ANY finite number of attacks on inhabited planets would NEVER get you to an infinite number as there theoretically is. This show REALLY made the universe seem small!
#5: While it may be "aesthetically pleasing", this picture of a crescent moon as depicted in the intro video of Sailor Moon is never possible. Here's an annotated screenshot of that image from the video.
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj243/videogamer_01/ImpossiblePicture.png
Remember it is IMPOSSIBLE for the moon to ever look like that.
#1: In the anime Sailor Moon, the main character Usagi Tsukino is the modern day reincarnation of the princess of the Moon Kingdom, an ancient kingdom on the moon. While her modern reincarnation is born on the earth, her "original" was born over 1000 years ago on the moon, a Princess Serenity. The moon people look like regular humans, but obviously aren't as humans live on the earth and back in the middle ages there were no astronauts to go to the moon The kingdom on the moon has since ceased to exist due to alien invasion. And the same is about to happen to humanity as the aliens are now about to attack the earth, with Sailor Moon being the only hero who can stop them.
Nice sci-fi story, but the science is TERRIBLE. Now I have several things to say about this story. First, is life (especially inteligent life) as we know it requires an atmosphere to breath. There is no air on the moon. So that means life shouldn't be able to exist there without space suits. Also, reincarnation is a spiritual subject and therefore can't even be analyzed scientifically so shall remain not analyzed in this post. And finally, we have no proof of aliens EVER visiting the earth (or the moon for that matter), and DEFINITELY no alien invasion has taken place on the earth (in spite of this being a staple of sci-fi films). Currently any so called "evidence" of alien visitations of the earth is sketchy at best.
#2: In the sci-fi show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, there are alien enemies of earth living on the moon. The aliens can travel to the earth to invade in about 1 second.
The first thing that that is rediculous is the same as in my last post, there is no air on the moon so life couldn't exist. Secondly, to reach the earth from the moon in 1 to 2 seconds, you'd have to be traveling near, or even above the speed of light (depending on your exact travel time). Traveling this fast would require technology that currently is out of our reach and if faster than light, would be impossible. Lets just hope any hostile aliens that MIGHT exist aren't this advanced in their technology.
3#: Back to Sailor Moon, it seems that when they transform, they convert their bodies to energy, then materialize their new super hero costumes on themselves, and finally convert their bodies back to matter, ready to fight the invading aliens.
Now the ONLY science behind this that is correct is that indeed matter CAN be converted to energy and back. The rest is pure fantasy, as is the possibility of containing, and controlling or manipulating that energy so that when it is converted back into matter it is in the exact shape you wanted (preferably in the shape of a super hero costume). The problem with containing the energy is that with Einstein's equation E=m*c^2 you would have a HUGE amount of energy released. In this case you are taking the mass of a 14 year old girl and her regular outfit, and converting it into energy so that part of it can be manipulated into the shape of a super hero costume before rematerialization. Taking the mass of a person and converting it into pure energy to start with would needless to say release so much energy that you would make an explosion big enough that you wouldn't even want to be ANYWHERE on the earth when it happened. That is she'd nuke herself and our whole planet which she was trying to protect as she attempted to "transform" into her super hero mode so she could save it. Bad idea.
#4: Back to Power Rangers again. But this time, lets look at Power Rangers in Space. The problem I saw REALLY stand out was in the final episode, where after analyzing sensor data on their hyperdrive equipped starship called the Astro Megaship, the came to the conclusion that the enemy aliens were trying to "conquer the whole universe" (this assuming it seems that intelligent life is abundant with at least one planet around every star or at least nearly every star could support intelligent life which would have to be "conquered", as seemed to be implied in the show). That statement was ridiculous to say the least. For aliens who could conquer our planet after maybe a week of fighting, the prospect of conquering every planet even in our own Milky Way galaxy would be ridiculous. And to do so to every galaxy in the known universe would be that level of ridiculousness times the number of galaxies in the visible universe. But since the whole universe is theoretically INFINITELY large, then it would be impossible even if 10^100 generations of hostile aliens tried it, as ANY finite number of attacks on inhabited planets would NEVER get you to an infinite number as there theoretically is. This show REALLY made the universe seem small!
#5: While it may be "aesthetically pleasing", this picture of a crescent moon as depicted in the intro video of Sailor Moon is never possible. Here's an annotated screenshot of that image from the video.
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj243/videogamer_01/ImpossiblePicture.png
Remember it is IMPOSSIBLE for the moon to ever look like that.