Honey, I Shrunk the Kids/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

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** And thinking in reverse, who would want to eat the turkey that has been increased in size? It would be less meat per bite!
** Well, they should still be able to move because their strength wouldn't change any more than their mass. The real problem is the pressure applied to the ground due to the decreased surface area of their feet. 150 pounds applied to, for example, a nail, might well be enough to drive it through the floorboards. The kids' feet aren't any wider than the tip of a nail.
** Just to clarify, your headscratcher basically boils down to "Bearing in mind that pretty much the whole movie runs on bullshit science, why the heck is the science bullshit?"
* In that same scene, Wayne says, "When Einstein invented the atomic bomb, did they ask him to ''prove'' that it worked?" Instead of saying, "You, Mr. Szalinski, are hardly Einstein," the guy should have said, [[Did Not Do the Research|"No, because Oppenheimer invented the atomic bomb, numbnuts."]]
** And oddly enough, Einstein only proved that the concept could work, but didn't invent it. He's got it all flipped.