Classical Spin

Rantings and ravings on politics, philosophy, and things that fall into the ether of 'none of the above'.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Thoughts upon watching Angels and Demons

Dan Brown is unbelievably stupid and did precisely no research about CERN, the LHC, antimatter, or anything like that.

It's playing in the background and they just announced that the explosion could be the equivalent of "five kilotons." Kilotons of what? Because five kilotons of puppies is a lot of puppies, but still preferable to five kilotons of .

Also I like that instead of, oh, calling in the police, immediately evacuating the area and searching it, they call in a professor of "symbology".

Also an academic gets access to the Vatican archives, rips a page out of an ancient manuscript (possibly by Galileo? I can't pay attention to this), and carries it with his bare hands? Did he fold it up and stick it in his pocket, too? I have, like, about fifteen minutes of archival training and that's making me twitch.

ETA: Seriously, GET YOUR OILY, GREASY, GROSS FINGERS OFF THAT 500 YEAR OLD DOCUMENT YOU HORRIBLE HEATHEN.

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