Gravity Movie Review - Neil deGrasse Tyson Twitter Rant

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Bad news, friends. Science genius and Twitter/comedy wiz Neil deGrasse Tyson is here to be a big ol' bummer. Particularly if you happened to enjoy a showing of Gravity this weekend. The astrophysicist is here to inform you that the visual spectacle that is the Cuarón film is riddled with falsehoods.

Tyson took to his Twitter last night to voice his thoughts on the space odyssey, and clear the air in terms of any lingering questions movie-goers might have. He brings up some pretty relevant questions regarding inaccuracies many might have missed due to the sheer visual scope of Cuarón's vision. For instance, why was a medical doctor sent to service the Hubble Telescope?

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Indeed, Gravity is a fantasy film at heart and has never advertised itself as anything other than fiction. But, the scientific inaccuracies do exist — and if someone's going to take them on, it might as well be a trained professional and one of our favorite people on the Internet.

Tyson's full rant can be found below. And, for what it's worth, despite Gravity's factual struggles, it's still a marvel of filmmaking. And we're not ashamed to admit that we loved it anyway.

The film #Gravity should be renamed "Zero Gravity"
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

The film #Gravity should be renamed "Angular Momentum"
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

The film #Gravity depicts a scenario of catastrophic satellite destruction that can actually happen.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock, a medical Doctor, is servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

Mysteries of #Gravity: How Hubble (350mi up) ISS (230mi up) & a Chinese Space Station are all in sight lines of one another.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

Mysteries of #Gravity: When Clooney releases Bullock's tether, he drifts away. In zero-G a single tug brings them together.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

Mysteries of #Gravity: Why anyone is impressed with a zero-G film 45 years after being impressed with "2001:A Space Odyssey"
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock's hair, in otherwise convincing zero-G scenes, did not float freely on her head.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

Mysteries of #Gravity: Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east yet all satellite debris portrayed orbited east to west
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

Mysteries of #Gravity: Satellite communications were disrupted at 230 mi up, but communications satellites orbit 100x higher.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

Mysteries of #Gravity: Why we enjoy a SciFi film set in make-believe space more than we enjoy actual people set in real space
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 6, 2013

My Tweets hardly ever convey opinion. Mostly perspectives on the world. But if you must know, I enjoyed #Gravity very much.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 7, 2013

Mysteries of #Gravity: Astronaut Clooney informs medical doctor Bullock what happens medically during oxygen deprivation.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 7, 2013

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Takes Down Gravity — & All Its Factual Inaccuracies

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