The Science of Fallout

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GameTrailers offers a "Science of Fallout" feature with a physicist Dr. Michio Kaku talking about the science of Fallout. Apparently they never got the note that Fallout is based on 50s-science! more than actual science, so it completely loses any point when it starts talking about mutations, but oh well, fun if you're into this sort of thing.

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Fun idea but extremely lame. It just doesn't go nearly in-depth enough to be interesting in any way whatsoever and like BN says, there is no real connection to Fallout here aside from "lol mutants".
 
I've tried, but have found it almost entirely impossible to take this guy seriously. "How will we fight the aliens?" I wish we were both 8 so I could break his glasses.
 
Michio Kaku seems awright, he's just been asked to comment on stuff he has no background in (societal collapse? Yeah, let's ask a physicist how that works) or for which he's not being given the game's background (mutations).

Dunno about the host tho.

Wait, who has glasses?
 
I stopped watching when Michio Kaku walked on. That guy is an ass. He'll say anything to get on TV and agree that anything is possible.
 
phildog said:
I stopped watching when Michio Kaku walked on.
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So you started despite the newspost reading Michio Kaku and then turned it off when he appeared? You're odd.

phildog said:
He'll say anything to get on TV and agree that anything is possible.
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1) He doesn't here.

2) Oh hey look, a popular scientist getting hated on. What else is new?
 
He doesn't now, but I'm fairly certain he did when he was 8. He's a physicist, isn't that a law of physics? Nerds have glasses? I might be wrong...
 
Maybe you could break his theoretical glasses?

Always thought of him as a bit of a hack really, seen a few of his futurist programs which are just garbage.
 
Don't know why everyone's hating on this video. My only problem is that since they bothered to bring Michio Kaku in, they might as well get him to talk about something that not everyone knows (i.e. the actual science part). But it is a GameTrailers interview, how much theoretical physics did we expect, really?

I like Michio Kaku, he's had some nice shows, albeit focussed more on general public...

I have a feeling I saw this video a while back, but without the scenes from Fallout:NV (just F3). Some of those look really nice - the Nightkin look badass.
 
Meh, not for me. Fallout doesn't obey our laws of physics, and if it did, I study physics myself.
Those pop-science-shows are neat, but if you know the actual hard science, it gets kinda boring :D
Well, interesting, but ultimately pointless.
 
Alphadrop said:
Maybe you could break his theoretical glasses?
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I had something witty about quantum physics and an infinite number of Michio Kaku states but then I realised... science humour isn't really that witty. I'll leave that schtick to XKCD, when he isn't busy beating us over the head with his tired, sentimental romantic crap.
 
Big Danny K said:
Sorry to break it up for you, but this is old news, I saw it few weeks ago on another Fallout site
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why did it get posted on GT just today/yesterday?
it's there content, isn't it?
 
For those of you that didnt' realise, Gametrailers has done a whole series of "The Science of Games" with Michio Kaku. And they are all about the real science of the real world.

So even if was fully aware of Fallout using 50s SCIENCE! the point of the video is how much s actually consistant with reality, and how much is sci-fi craziness.

I think the first of these game science videos was about Mass Effect 2, which was a big 8 minute video, talking about invisibility, force fields, dark matter and dark energy, biotics. He did a bunch of others too.

What suprirsed me was the one for the game Singularity. When talking about manipulating time, rather than talking about the obvious stuff like wormholes instead he brought up the idea of time being a river and that a recent idea is that there could be whirlpools in time, causing an object to occilate backwards and forwards in time. Hmm? I've never heard that one.
 
TheGM said:
They used the wrong science.

Should have been

The SCIENCE! of Fallout.
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Good point, if this guy isn't wearing a labcoat, goggles and standing near a tesla coil or van de graff generator he has no credibility on the subject of Fallout SCIENCE! at all.
 
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