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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by zorneatsham:<br>Aren't there copyrights involved with using existing (commercial) OSes in movies? That wouldn't stop filmmakers from using some tasty shots of a character using a Gnome or KDE desktop, right? </div>
</blockquote>More likely the OS company aren't paying enough, and if there is one thing Hollywood producers hate it is giving anyone free publicity.<br><br>I think it is silly to blame something as fundamentally <i>not</i> real as a superhero movie like Superman for misrepresenting reality. I also doubt that natural science gets the worst treatment – the humans in these kinds of movies rarely act like the real thing.<br>That's not to say it has no merits, and at the very least it is great fun -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif --<br><br>Anyways, the biggest immersion killer to me is when the natural laws of the protayed universe apparently exist solely to provide dramatic effect for random heroes. I can believe that the almost-unlimited-ammunition-weapon runs out, that something otherwise not very explosive (like a car) blows up in a gigantic explosion etc. – but when it does so at a time and in a way that is so obviously only for the benefit of the viewer I cringe.<br>It is sort of the same thing when MovieOS can do anything at all fully automatically, unless there is a Countdown of Doom™ – in which case even the simplest of tasks require so many obscure commands (and distracting visual effects) that it doesn't finish untill just before the timer hits 0.<br><br>Oh yea... nitpick of the century award goes to:<br><blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote">
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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Though the crew quarters in the spaceship Discovery are arranged in a rotating wheel to simulate gravity, the wheel's short radius would require many RPM (5-10 RPM, depending on the actual radius) to produce Earth-like gravity. In the film, the centrifuge rotates at about 3 RPM (once every 20 seconds). </div>
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