<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cb19903f-e4a3-4829-8136-3f185ced6503/91E2884A-63D5-4E0F-975C-743F9EDDBAA6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/07/24/comic-con-2009-physics-goes-to-the-movies/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/07/24/comic-con-2009-physics-goes-to-the-movies/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/07/24/comic-con-2009-physics-goes-to-the-movies/">At yesterday’s Comic-Con panel The Physics of Hollywood Movies, <A href="http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/adam-weiner">Adam Weiner</A>*, a high school physics instructor and author of <EM><A href="http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Try-This-Home-Hollywood/dp/1419594060">Don’t Try this at Home</A>! The Physics of Hollywood Movies</EM> gauged the scientific accuracy of favorite sci-fi, superhero, and action-movie scenes:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/07/24/comic-con-2009-physics-goes-to-the-movies/"><P>Among the things we learned:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/07/24/comic-con-2009-physics-goes-to-the-movies/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><EM>X-Men’s</EM> Storm would need to consume 120,000 in food calories or have a nuclear reactor in her stomach to generate the minimum 500 million joules of energy needed to shoot lightning bolts from her body. On the plus side, such a metabolism definitely helps one stay in movie shape.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/07/24/comic-con-2009-physics-goes-to-the-movies/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">In <EM>Mission Impossible</EM>, Tom Cruise survives a 2,200-g mid-air body slam (where g is the acceleration due to Earth’s gravity, 9.8 meters per second squared), but Newton’s second law doesn’t fare so well. “A force to the head exceeding 150 g’s is usually fatal.” <EM>Usually</EM>, sure. All that <A href="http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress">Scientology in his noggin</A> probably helped cushion the blow…</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/91E2884A-63D5-4E0F-975C-743F9EDDBAA6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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