# Bad Science: Favourite SF Movie Blunders

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-science-favourite-sf-movie-blunders/303201>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 10, 2005, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-science-favourite-sf-movie-blunders/303201 "2005-05-10T11:06:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-science-favourite-sf-movie-blunders/303201/141 "2005-05-13T00:40:46Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> There’s no reason you couldn’t have spheres of Beryllium. It’s a perfectly respectable metal.

But is there any planet where you would find giant natural spheres of more-or-less pure beryllium lying around on the surface?

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-science-favourite-sf-movie-blunders/303201/142 "2005-05-13T00:46:41Z")

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> [@Max Carnage](#):
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> I believe the word you are looking for is “Space Ranger”

T-O-Y, _toy._😃

(A toy who _thinks_ he’s a Space Ranger, but still…)

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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-science-favourite-sf-movie-blunders/303201/143 "2005-05-13T01:07:31Z")

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> [@smiling bandit](#):
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> I never cared about the whole “:sound in space” thing.

Me neither. I just think of the “whoosh” sound as part of the background soundtrack – from that point of view, the fact that spaceships don’t really make noise in vacuum is no more relevant than the fact that dramatic situations don’t spontaneously generate appropriate music.

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