Neil DeGrasse Tyson Reviews Gravity Inaccuracies On Twitter [VIDEO]; Why Is A Medical Doctor Servicing The Hubble Space Telescope? And Other Confounding Aspects Of Gravity!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson reviews "Gravity" inaccuracies on Twitter!  
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a famous astrophysicist who is remaking the Carl Sagan series Cosmos with Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane. Yesterday he gave his own review of the movie Gravity via Twitter, pointing out the scientific inaccuracies in the SciFi flick.

Gravity, the film starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, did better at the box office than any other October film - and Gravity reviews make it sound like an entertaining ride.  Of course, Hollywood is not known for its precise scientific accuracy - which is why Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Gravity reviews on Twitter give a different perspective.

Here's a little bit of what Neil De Grasse Tyson @neiltyson had to say in his Gravity review:
"The film #Gravity should be renamed "Zero Gravity""

"The film #Gravity should be renamed "Angular Momentum""

"The film #Gravity depicts a scenario of catastrophic satellite destruction that can actually happen."

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"Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock, a medical Doctor, is servicing the Hubble Space Telescope."

"Mysteries of #Gravity: How Hubble (350mi up) ISS (230mi up) & a Chinese Space Station are all in sight lines of one another."

"Mysteries of #Gravity: When Clooney releases Bullock's tether, he drifts away. In zero-G a single tug brings them together."

"Mysteries of #Gravity: Why anyone is impressed with a zero-G film 45 years after being impressed with "2001:A Space Odyssey""

"Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock's hair, in otherwise convincing zero-G scenes, did not float freely on her head."
"Mysteries of #Gravity: Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east yet all satellite debris portrayed orbited east to west"

"Mysteries of #Gravity: Satellite communications were disrupted at 230 mi up, but communications satellites orbit 100x higher."
"Mysteries of #Gravity: Why we enjoy a SciFi film set in make-believe space more than we enjoy actual people set in real space"


Even though Neil De Grasse Tyson had a critical review of Gravity inaccuracies, he still enjoyed the movie:
"My Tweets hardly ever convey opinion. Mostly perspectives on the world. But if you must know, I enjoyed #Gravity very much."

What did you think of the movie Gravity? Let us know in the comments! 

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