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Bad Science Films Can Teach Us Good Science

Artificial Intelligence | Astronomy | Cinema | Space
Ventana al Conocimiento (Knowledge Window)
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Impossible aliens, giant monsters, absurd explosions, unreal viruses… Cinema is fiction, and therefore does not have to obey the scientific laws that govern reality, as long as we understand that we should not believe everything we see on the silver screen.

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