Comments on: NASA considers this 1997 science fiction film the most realistic ever made

By: Jean

Jean — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:39:35 +0000

I bet the worst 3 they picked was for a reason…..because they can’t do anything about it if it happens, lol

By: Gilberto

Gilberto — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:10:48 +0000

Genetic manipulation allows parents to predetermine their children’s traits and potential,I have noticed that when I travel at the airport, many young people with the same hair color and very similar faces, I have always thought that this is manipulated, and I do not want to comment further because this group has a lot of power and I could get into trouble.

By: Guilherme

Guilherme — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 11:35:13 +0000

Star trek has done that before. There is the whole eugenics wars thing, but there is also an episode in TNG where they go to an isolated human colony in a planet that decided on their own to generically engineer themselves, so they can not only erradicate generic diseases, but also genetically “program” people to be good at specific kind of labour, so they are born already knowing what their future profession would be. The whole society is engineered through that.

I think this colony started from a ship that crash landed on that planet and they had to use genetic engineering in the begining to counter interbreeding issues, but then they just kept doing it

By: David

David — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 04:10:25 +0000

Gattica did not connect with me because Ethan’s character spent so much time scrubbing himself down to get rid of any loose skin cells but they are sluffing off at all times. He would have been detected immediately.

We shed so many skin cells that dogs can track where somebody went … in a car.

By: Stephen Spencer Ayers

Stephen Spencer Ayers — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:36:45 +0000

OP, you’re a complete moron. There was no “up-side” to genetic engineering in the film!

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 02:25:36 +0000

In our future the ‘elites’ will be those who facilitate the growth of others.

By: Andrew Kennedy

Andrew Kennedy — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:02:05 +0000

The only inaccuracy I could spot in “The Martian” was the martian winds able to have any negligible force. The air is far too thin to cause wind damage, the blowing dust though can wreck havoc with systems.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:47:34 +0000

For those who still read books, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932

By: Kyle Reese

Kyle Reese — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:07:18 +0000

A quality film with a lot of its ideas pinched from Huxley

By: Bobby davis

Bobby davis — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:47:59 +0000

Kinda crazy that Nasa picks that route of science fiction instead of what their expertise is as in space travel, I know it has some but they seem to only concentrate on the gene editing to which what makes them think they’re the experts when it comes to gene manipulation? Also how is Armageddon on the other list when they literally are practicing doing pretty much some form of it rn, probably practicing for aphophis

By: Teemohtee

Teemohtee — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:47:39 +0000

You know the world is absolute garbage when a government agency refers to a dystopian movie from almost 30 years ago as the most accurate movie portraying the modern day. I don’t understand how American people are not up in arms over the direction this country and this world is going

By: Frank Rizzo

Frank Rizzo — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:19:47 +0000

The author could have just said, “I like this movie” and saved us about 8 minutes.

Otherwise, the writing was mediocre, the performance wooden, and the characters inane and unconvincing.

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 16:37:58 +0000

Aside from any abnormalities in a birth, aren’t all human brains the same at birth? Anything after that is nurturing, society, culture… wealth. Any science or technology that’s applied depending on anything other than ‘all people are equal’ should be banned. You lost me the moment you mentioned “determines social status and career prospects”.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:13:24 +0000

Not to mention it predicted EVs with home charging, solar and frequent rocket launches.

By: Dutch

Dutch — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:56:59 +0000

NASA cares more about DEI than anything. Elon Musk is running circles around NASA.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:48:55 +0000

I really enjoyed this article. Thank you. I look forward to seeing this film.

By: John w.

John w. — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:08:03 +0000

To the person who supposedly works at JPL. Nasa owns and federally funds JPL. Caltech simply manages it. So, no, the claim that JPL is Nasa is not misleading. And you obviously don’t actually work there. Silly goose.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:19:36 +0000

I would have thought Interstellar would have been on the first list.

By: Steve Limbach

Steve Limbach — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:53:00 +0000

Gotta be kidding!!
People getting on a spaceship in suits and ties !!
Ridiculous!!
Also, main character not being identified by his photo ID?
How did they miss that ?

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:04:10 +0000

Very good film and scary as hell. Actors were great!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:10:55 +0000

Yes, I can imagine from a scientific and engineering point of view, the movies listed are indeed very realistic, but I think personal preference would also factor into this also. There are quite a few that I think are also very realistic like The Martian, 2001: A Space Odyssey, perhaps even Soylent Green to name a few. To be fair though, Im coming at this as a creative who appreciates the science and engineering arts. Makes me want to see Gattaca again though!

By: Tom D

Tom D — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:12:24 +0000

The fact is that the film retreads th eugenics arguments with a this patina of overlayed (and misunderstood) science. Most human traits are multi genetic, and we now know that other factors, such as small RNAs, are extremely important in gene expression control. If anything, what has been learned since the film has made it far more complex to ‘engineer” specific traits into an individual’s genetic makeup, and also understand the knock on side effects of genetic changes.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:46:49 +0000

There’s a HUGE difference between genetic TESTING and genetic MANIPULATION. Gattaca’s premise was based only on the former. CRISPR is used for the latter.

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:54:51 +0000

Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine are nitrogenous BASES, not nucleotides. The bases need to be bonded to a sugar and a phosphate to be called nucleotides.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:30:05 +0000

I had my father DNA tested then 10 years later my own. Problem was the test results were showing almost the same group of people in my test as were in my dad’s. Yes , it got screwed up‼️ My material side was tested and Mom was 100% Italian. Dad we knew was Irish, German, English. So tell me how they could get almost the identical results from 2 different test and people?
In your article your leaning on the FACTS of science being a reality of the future. This truly scary me!!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:11:51 +0000

NASA spending time critiquing sci fi movies is why Space X is catching their own rockets after launch and NASA is not.

By: Tammie

Tammie — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 06:06:31 +0000

Interesting that Jude Law’s character’s name is Eugene (eugenics) and his staircase is a double helix

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 04:39:40 +0000

Societal inequality based on genetics is also called EUGENICS. Maybe next time you should look it up and see how shitty and unethical eugenic is. Who said this shit at NASA?

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:55:56 +0000

Brave New World and Nineteen-Eighty Four have already come true.

By: Linda Peer

Linda Peer — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:08:53 +0000

We watch this in my high school bioethics class. It’s great!

By: SkyGuide*Michael

SkyGuide*Michael — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:26:46 +0000

JPL, not NASA.

JPL employees are federal contractors, not NASA employees. We work for Caltech. JPL is owned by Caltech.

Still, I like the lists, even is the NASA reference is misleading.

By: Christopher Rasmussen

Christopher Rasmussen — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:07:36 +0000

I’m curious as to where 2001 A Space Odyssey falls on this list?