space the final frontier
space may be the final frontier but it’s
made in a Hollywood basement and in
Hollywood the laws of physics rarely
seem to apply soul flare by crop up cook
surcease welcome to watchmojo.com one by
one in today’s installment we’re
counting down the five myths about space
that had as falling out of orbit take
your hands off that harness make me oh
and just so you know chic myth number
five asteroid belts are dangerous the
Empire Strikes Back features perhaps the
most iconic asteroid field in cinema but
Han is anything but solo when it comes
to navigating these obstacles in sci-fi
films the possibility of successfully
navigating an asteroid field is
approximately 3,720 to 1 ever tell me
the odds asteroid belts at the go to
hazard in any chasing set in space while
asteroid belts are very real the tightly
packed asteroid formations that make
such high-stakes piloting a total works
of fiction in reality asteroid belts are
immense our solar system’s own belt
contains somewhere between 1.1 and 1.9
million asteroids but these asteroids
are spread far apart often with hundreds
of thousands of miles of empty space
between them basically jar-jar binks
could drive an imperial star destroyer
through an asteroid belt without
scratching the paint ha whoa
myth number four humans instantly freeze
in space space is not the death trap
Hollywood would have you believe you
will die if you suddenly find yourself
jettisoned into space without the
appropriate equipment but it won’t
result from a sudden flash freezing as
depicted in so many films given that
space is a vacuum there is a lack of
particles to soak up your body’s natural
heat meaning that your body would cool
very slowly for such low temperatures
the most likely cause of death in this
real world space scenario is as thick CA
ssin in space you’ll likely run out of
oxygen in as few as 15 seconds due to
the difference in pressure and your
brain will die minutes later so if we
get the cold you’ll be dead long before
you freeze your guy
myth number three astronauts exist in
zero-gravity which allows us to achieve
weightlessness for about 30 seconds
we’ll do this 20 times when an astronaut
floats around in space we often refer to
it as zero-gravity but the truth of the
matter is that gravity exists everywhere
in varying degrees of force throughout
the universe for example at the
International Space Station ISS
astronauts still experience 90% of
Earth’s gravitational force what we
often refer to as zero gravity is in
fact microgravity which might give the
appearance of weightlessness but is in
fact a form of perpetual freefall in
freefall objects fall at the same rate
regardless of mass which means that
everything appears weightless
thus astronauts experience
weightlessness while remaining fully in
gravity’s grasp as they freefall in
orbit around the planet
myth number two there are explosions in
space there is no explosion like a space
explosion because there aren’t really
explosions in space or at least not fire
explosions as we typically see in film
in order for combustion to take place
there needs to be oxygen and if space is
known for one thing it’s a distinct lack
of oxygen while a spacecraft contains
oxygen for the astronauts to breathe
providing some fuel for the explosion
any sort of fire would almost instantly
be snuffed out by the vacuum of space
the oxygen immediately consumed you can
criticize sci-fi filmmakers for
exaggerating but the honest truth is
space combat would be significantly less
thrilling if it were grounded by physics
the vacuum of space means no explosions
and no sound
myth number one black holes are vortexes
of destruction black holes
black holes we still have a lot to learn
about them but one thing we do know is
that they have their limitations like
with anything else mass dictates their
gravitational force they’re not
constantly expanding insatiable doorways
to nowhere hungrily sucking up the
universe to better understand black
holes consider the Bart Simpson effect
bar as a black hole of failure that
pulls every student around him into a
cone of ignorance but even his Reach is
limited and the students on the
periphery of the classroom are
unaffected that being said if you ever
find yourself within the range of a real
black hole the repercussions will be
significantly worse than failing grades
so how many of these myths did you
believe Wow got a great view of the
earth Sun for more intergalactic top
tens an out-of-this-world top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
spacious disease and danger wrapped of
darkness silence while ready to break
the stupid Starfleet operates in space
Oh
space may be the final frontier but it’s
made in a Hollywood basement and in
Hollywood the laws of physics rarely
seem to apply soul flare by crop up cook
surcease welcome to watchmojo.com one by
one in today’s installment we’re
counting down the five myths about space
that had as falling out of orbit take
your hands off that harness make me oh
and just so you know chic myth number
five asteroid belts are dangerous the
Empire Strikes Back features perhaps the
most iconic asteroid field in cinema but
Han is anything but solo when it comes
to navigating these obstacles in sci-fi
films the possibility of successfully
navigating an asteroid field is
approximately 3,720 to 1 ever tell me
the odds asteroid belts at the go to
hazard in any chasing set in space while
asteroid belts are very real the tightly
packed asteroid formations that make
such high-stakes piloting a total works
of fiction in reality asteroid belts are
immense our solar system’s own belt
contains somewhere between 1.1 and 1.9
million asteroids but these asteroids
are spread far apart often with hundreds
of thousands of miles of empty space
between them basically jar-jar binks
could drive an imperial star destroyer
through an asteroid belt without
scratching the paint ha whoa
myth number four humans instantly freeze
in space space is not the death trap
Hollywood would have you believe you
will die if you suddenly find yourself
jettisoned into space without the
appropriate equipment but it won’t
result from a sudden flash freezing as
depicted in so many films given that
space is a vacuum there is a lack of
particles to soak up your body’s natural
heat meaning that your body would cool
very slowly for such low temperatures
the most likely cause of death in this
real world space scenario is as thick CA
ssin in space you’ll likely run out of
oxygen in as few as 15 seconds due to
the difference in pressure and your
brain will die minutes later so if we
get the cold you’ll be dead long before
you freeze your guy
myth number three astronauts exist in
zero-gravity which allows us to achieve
weightlessness for about 30 seconds
we’ll do this 20 times when an astronaut
floats around in space we often refer to
it as zero-gravity but the truth of the
matter is that gravity exists everywhere
in varying degrees of force throughout
the universe for example at the
International Space Station ISS
astronauts still experience 90% of
Earth’s gravitational force what we
often refer to as zero gravity is in
fact microgravity which might give the
appearance of weightlessness but is in
fact a form of perpetual freefall in
freefall objects fall at the same rate
regardless of mass which means that
everything appears weightless
thus astronauts experience
weightlessness while remaining fully in
gravity’s grasp as they freefall in
orbit around the planet
myth number two there are explosions in
space there is no explosion like a space
explosion because there aren’t really
explosions in space or at least not fire
explosions as we typically see in film
in order for combustion to take place
there needs to be oxygen and if space is
known for one thing it’s a distinct lack
of oxygen while a spacecraft contains
oxygen for the astronauts to breathe
providing some fuel for the explosion
any sort of fire would almost instantly
be snuffed out by the vacuum of space
the oxygen immediately consumed you can
criticize sci-fi filmmakers for
exaggerating but the honest truth is
space combat would be significantly less
thrilling if it were grounded by physics
the vacuum of space means no explosions
and no sound
myth number one black holes are vortexes
of destruction black holes
black holes we still have a lot to learn
about them but one thing we do know is
that they have their limitations like
with anything else mass dictates their
gravitational force they’re not
constantly expanding insatiable doorways
to nowhere hungrily sucking up the
universe to better understand black
holes consider the Bart Simpson effect
bar as a black hole of failure that
pulls every student around him into a
cone of ignorance but even his Reach is
limited and the students on the
periphery of the classroom are
unaffected that being said if you ever
find yourself within the range of a real
black hole the repercussions will be
significantly worse than failing grades
so how many of these myths did you
believe Wow got a great view of the
earth Sun for more intergalactic top
tens an out-of-this-world top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
spacious disease and danger wrapped of
darkness silence while ready to break
the stupid Starfleet operates in space
Oh
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