Welcome to the third installment of "Fiction portrays alien crap really stupid, doesn't it?"
I recently realized that for some reason, any time an alien planet is shown, there always appears to be only one climate. Obviously, this relates back to the "one culture, one language" thing I talked about last time, but I think this is a whole different problem altogether.
Take for example the planet Hoth from Star Wars, frequently described as an "ice planet". Now I know that obviously, there are planets that are very, very cold, like Pluto (which is still a planet, dammit. Don't listen to those "scientists"). However, these planets are almost certainly not habitable, and no amount of insane alien yeti skin would be able to keep Luke Skywalker from dying of hypothermia in twelve seconds. And yet they manage to spend almost an entire movie on it.
Think about the way the Earth works. There are thousands of different climates on just one small planet. Any planet that was at a safe and comfortable distance from its respective sun would have to be like that. One that wouldn't would be impossible to live on. Either you'd freeze to death or the species would be wiped out after their testicles melted off. Hooray for science!
"How serious is he? Should I make fun of him or not? AAAAAUUUGH!!"
I like this for the quote at the bottom.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe, you know, they're not humans. And so they can survive. Also fuck that, Star Wars pwns.
ReplyDeleteBut still, the fact that humans can survive it for extended periods of time at ALL calls it into question.
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