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Lionel Mandrake

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Tue Dec 28, 2021, 07:47 PM Dec 2021

I watched a few minutes of Netflix's movie "Io". [View all]

I like science fiction when I can suspend disbelief, but "Io" makes that impossible. The film should have had a science advisor, who would have pointed out a couple of howlers:

1) Putting humans in orbit about Jupiter's moon Io makes no sense. Jupiter is ridiculously far from the sun. Furthermore, Io is right in the middle of a band of intense radiation, which would kill people very quickly.

2) Back on earth, scientists were trying to extract oxygen from ammonium, which contains no oxygen.

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How do movies fail like this? hunter Dec 2021 #1
My favorite science oopsie in a movie wryter2000 Dec 2021 #2
You're right. Lionel Mandrake Jan 2022 #3
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