{"id":8675,"date":"2013-10-04T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T20:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=8675"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:35:54","slug":"gravity-movie-gets-the-science-mostly-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=8675","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gravity&#8217; movie gets the science mostly right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8679 aligncenter\" alt=\"gravity\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gravity.jpg\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gravity.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gravity-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gravity-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gravity-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week, Prof. Jean-Luc Margot discussed the scientific accuracy of the movie &#8216;Gravity&#8217; with CNN. \u00a0The movie, which premiered on October 4, 2013, stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts on a routine space shuttle mission that goes disastrously wrong. \u00a0Watch the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/data\/2.0\/video\/bestoftv\/2013\/09\/28\/exp-science-behind-gravity.cnn.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0or below.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"ep\" width=\"416\" height=\"234\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&amp;profile=desktop&amp;context=embedwww&amp;videoId=bestoftv\/2013\/09\/28\/exp-science-behind-gravity.cnn&amp;contentId=bestoftv\/2013\/09\/28\/exp-science-behind-gravity.cnn\" \/><embed id=\"ep\" width=\"416\" height=\"234\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&amp;profile=desktop&amp;context=embedwww&amp;videoId=bestoftv\/2013\/09\/28\/exp-science-behind-gravity.cnn&amp;contentId=bestoftv\/2013\/09\/28\/exp-science-behind-gravity.cnn\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Prof. Jean-Luc Margot discussed the scientific accuracy of the movie &#8216;Gravity&#8217; with CNN. \u00a0The movie, which premiered on October 4, 2013, stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts on a routine space shuttle mission that goes disastrously wrong. \u00a0Watch the interview here\u00a0or below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8675"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8677,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8675\/revisions\/8677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}