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I don't know about explosions, but fire acts differently away from Earth's gravity. Instead of jumping up, it surrounds the thing that's burning. That's something that Hollywood hasn't tried. They'd rather blow it to smithereens (probably with a two-dimensional shock wave). Another of my...

They have all sorts of consultants providing expert advice on all sorts of subjects, but very often the filmmakers choose to ignore it because reality is not exciting enough. Like with the defibrillator (got it right that time!) scenes. Being realistic and saying that the patient has an...

My favorite movie myth, one that was busted when I joined my company's emergency response team and got some training, is that a defibulator machine will restart a dead person's heart. Think of the scene from The Abyss: Brinkman's wife has drowned and been towed back to the moon pool. The worried...