![]() We have a jet pack that we wear when we do spacewalks on the space station. Garrett: This whole idea about puncturing your glove to fly like Iron Man and be rescued by your spaceship. OK? No matter what the laws of physics say, you hold on. ![]() He says, "You have to let me go." Why? Why does she have to let him go? And you've got a firm grip on George Clooney. "Boop!" And pull him, and he would be going right back to the space station, and they'd be having a nice lunch together. And once she has stopped his motion and he's just sitting there, and she's holding on to the other end of the tether, all she has to do is go like this with her littlest pinky. He is not pulling her off the space station anymore. It's not like she's holding him, like, over a cliff or something. There's no gravity, right, that's pulling him away. As he's flying on by, he would, with his momentum, try to carry her away and pull her away from the space station, and she would have to resist that and stop him, which she does. And the other thing about this that's completely unrealistic: George Clooney is flying on by, and Sandra Bullock reaches and grabs his tether and grabs onto him. You can't look at a shooting range and see a rifle bullet flying around from thousands of kilometers away. That's bogus, OK? This stuff is traveling an order of magnitude like 10 times faster than a rifle bullet. They see this, like, cloud of debris coming from thousands of kilometers away. There's certain things in the movie about how they show the debris that's not accurate. ![]() When I was up there, several times I heard debris hit the space station. It's stuff that we shot up into space, and we didn't clean up our own mess. So, some of the stuff is natural, but the vast bulk of the flux, the density of the stuff whizzing around the Earth, is created by humans. This is a real problem, and it's getting worse. Garrett: The movie deals with space debris, and that's what causes the calamity that they then have to fight the rest of the movie. This movie takes great liberties and completely blows off the basic laws of physics. I really like this movie, despite the fact that the science, totally wrong. Matt Kowalski: You have to let me go, or we both die. And today we're gonna look at some popular movie clips, and I'll try to use my experience as a former director of space operations at SpaceX and current professor at University of Southern California, USC, and give you a rating on how realistic it is. Garrett Reisman: "Pwsh!" Hi, I'm Garrett Reisman, former NASA astronaut. Han Solo: Let's blow this thing and go home! Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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