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==== [[Live Action TV]] ====
* In an episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Daleks are fought (in space!) with WWII front-engine prop planes, [[Hand Wave|"modified" according to unspecified Dalek technological blueprints]], that apparently still use the propellers for thrust, and which are able to perform complex maneuvers with no air.
==== [[Literature]] ====
* Zigzagged in ''[[Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator]]'', Wonka tells Charlie that the Vernicious Knids have never successfully invaded Earth because the Knids cannot survive reentry, that they burn up and die whenever they try it. However, Wonka also says this is due to an "invisible shield" around the Earth, and that the Knids wiped out the populations of both Venus and Mars, as both planets do not have such a shield. In truth, the only "shield" that causes this is the atmosphere itself, and while the composition is different, both Venus and Mars do have atmospheres. In fact, Venus' atmosphere would likely cause even ''worse'' friction to anything that tried to land there.
=== Ignoring Mass/Momentum/Etc ===
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=== Plate Tectonics is Not About Dinnerware ===
==== Films - Live-Action ====
* ''[[2012]]'' attempts to justify its scientifically predictable doomsday with an obscure geological theory of crustal displacement formulated in the '50s. The film even throws in an appeal to authority by claiming that Einstein agreed with the theory. The latter is true, and the film depicts at least vaguely accurately what crustal displacement in action might look like. What it fails to address though, is the fact that the theory was formulated before plate tectonics theory was developed, something that didn't happen until the '60s. What does this mean for the movie? Oh, only the fact that the two theories are mutually exclusive, and since plate tectonics is now proven true, the other can't be.
** Furthermore, Einstein, while brilliant, was ''not'' an expert on geology. You wouldn't trust his opinion on plate tectonics any more than you would trust him with open-heart surgery.
=== Gravity Blunders ===
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=== Fire Doesn't Work That Way ===
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* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': Somewhere A Physicist Is Crying. That would be Panel 3 of [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-04 this strip]. And he cries some more in [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-11 this strip].
** Turns out this one is simple: A summoner wanted a fire monster, but there's no such thing as "living fire," so he ended up creating a monster that looks like fire but isn't actually hot and can be "extinguished."
** The comic's 'New Readers Guide' immediately warns us thusly: "WARNING: Often ignores the laws of physics." found [http://www.egscomics.com/new_reader.page here]
=== Steam Does Not Puff That Way ===
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