“Our favorite part was the testing,” he said at the panel. “You know the part where he tries out the rocket boots, and he turns them on at like 10% and gets thrown onto the roof of car? We cracked up because that’s exactly what happens.”<\/p>
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Obviously, Street was joking, but his point was that Iron Man was one of the few movies to offer a smatter of realism in how science gets done: Have an idea, test it, have it not work right, try again.<\/p>
<\/span><\/p> “It never works the way you think it’s going to work the first time,” said Molly McCormick, an engineer who designs space suits for Orbital Outfitters<\/a>.<\/p> At Discover’s panel<\/a> Thursday, Discover blogger Sean Carroll<\/a>, who I don’t think attended the space panel, made the same point on his own.<\/p> “Iron Man had the scientific method,” he said. “It didn’t always work.”<\/p> Sure scientists enjoy the first Iron Man movie. They’re human beings after all, and that was a pretty decent movie. But I would never have expected scientists to love it for…well, for its approach to science.At the NewSpace panel I … Continue reading <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"