sam geltz

I never watched Star Trek before in my entire life so I had trouble following some parts of this movie, such as like the death of Kirks son, why they were in trouble, why Spock lost his memory, etc….

In Star Trek just, like any other science fiction space movie, the creators had to bend and create their own technology to suit the plot.  The warp drives had to be created because even with our technology we cannot reach C therefore we could never travel to different galaxies or travel through time.  To get to our nearest star by our technological methods it would take thousands of years which is not suitable for Star Trek or an audience expecting a little more action. And if the people in the movie had to use our technology they could not travel through time to collect whales and the Earth would be destroyed by a whale seeking prob.

My second technology is the beaming people up thing. I think it would be really cool and time saving if we could really get it to work without turning our insides into Jello. The thing changes a solid mass (a person or whales and a lot of water) into small particles that can travel though space and solids and then puts the solid mass back together in its correct form.  Obviously with our current technological state this is unobtainable and with how the economy is at the moment nobody has the funds to attempt to build such a fabulous creation. Maybe in the 23 century they will get around to figuring out how to do it but as of now we can only hope that Scotty has found a different job to do.

The Core

Bad Physics

1.      All pacemaker victims would not have dropped dead all at the same exact time. Their hearts would keep beating at rates depending on the severity of their condition. Microwave radiation is not strong enough to interfere with the pacemakers to begin with.

2.      Keyes’s demonstration at the beginning of class with the trumpet was wrong. He was supposed to play a single note not a bunch of them to show the sound vibrations and wavelength. What he was doing was just showing the intensity vs. time. He wanted to show the speed which is found from finding the distance vs. time.

3.      I hate birds with a passion and that scene when they all freaked out and smacked into people, windows, cars and statues freaked me out. Now even though I hate birds I am pretty sure that even though they use the magnetic field to fly they would still be able to fly out of the way of the objects directly in their path. They do have eyes that still function properly and even if they did not, they birds flying straight into a skyscrapers window and breaking it would never happen.

4.      The material of the ship could not withstand the heat of the core… nothing can.

5.      The explosions at the core would send vibrations to the surface of the earth’s crust causing the magma to flow to the surface while earthquakes and other disasters kill everyone.

6.      Virgil wouldn’t have made it very far under the surface before being destroyed by the conditions under the surface.

7.      Earthquake weapon??? Destini, I would love to see a weapon that could send enough vibrations to our core.

8.      Microwaves? The magnetic field does not affect microwave radiation as Keyes says it does. On earth there is very little of it and the sun makes a lot of electromagnetic radiation in the form of visible light, so the worst that can happen is our cell phones won’t work.

9.      Without our magnetic field our atmosphere can and will still protect earth

10.  Where did they find five 200 megaton bombs? The U.S. has a 9 megaton bomb and Russia apparently has a 100 megaton but nobody has a 200 megaton.

11.  Ultrasound seeing through solid lead… not possible (yet)

12.  Why did the tip of Virgil stay pointed down while falling through water. If it was just falling and was not being powered then it should have leveled out or tilted or something.

13.  There is something wrong with the “Geode” scene. It does not make any sense that the people can walk around in what looks like foil suits and have such free/quick movements. Keyes said space was empty (no pressure, gas, etc…) so then why do our space suits look so much thicker and we barely move on the moon. The Geode has tons of pressure under the surface but they are jumping and running with ease.

14.   Bombs exploding around the core cannot cause the torque they need to make the core spin again, because of the energy loss when the waves travel away from the core.

15.  Keyes was wearing his heat suit when he took the fuel rods out to give the last bomb the extra needed explosion power, but if the heat melted his gloves then why not his bare face?

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