Days of wonder, days of wtf...

[byslantedlight]

I can haz snow! I can haz lots of snow! View from my window - 7am and 8am. *g* This is a snowy winter, innit! *vbg* Have you all got snow?

Also - seriously, scientists? You know this is just the sort of thing that means people think you're boring idiots, and turns kids off the subject!
Drive to make Hollywood obey the laws of science:
Science fiction movies should be allowed only one major transgression of the laws of physics, according to a US professor who has won backing from a number of his peers after creating a set of guidelines for Hollywood.
The proposals are intended to curb the film industry's worst abuses of science by confining scriptwriters to plotlines that embrace the suspension of disbelief but stop short of demanding it in every scene.
The guidelines are by Sidney ­Perkowitz, a professor of physics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and a member of the Science and Entertainment Exchange, an advisory body run by the US National Academy of Sciences.

They're clearly not quite understanding the whole term "science fiction"... I'm just... so gobsmacked by this. This, where creationism is allowed to rule in classrooms... If you want your children (of all ages) to know that giant insects can't really exist teach them science at school! On children's television! In books and comics and magazines and video games! But don't say that people aren't allowed to imagine things differently! *headdesk* What are they gonna do - burn the scripts that they think aren't good enough? And what about climate change - under Bush that little plot would have been disallowed as "unscientific", eh? *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*

Oh and by the way - can I please teach you scientists the proper use of English again? You know, using Title Case for titles, and punctuation in references and so on? Idiots.

I'm off now, to write a story about a world ruled by giant insects, which have arrived on our planet via particles from the northern lights and are able to move faster than the speed of light themselves by using telepathy. They communicate with their god (who doesn't believe in dinosaurs) using anti-matter devices, and obtain their energy from bees, which explains why they're disappearing...