Revisiting the Physics of Buckaroo Banzai 163
serutan writes "Shortly before the release of 'The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension' in 1984, physicist Carl Sneider of U.C. Berkeley wrote a surprisingly interesting essay on the physics behind the movie. Since the essay is not widely available on the web and I could only find it in plain text, I posted a more readable HTML version on my site. Among the more interesting points Sneider makes are that the oscillation overthruster is the result of decades of research instead of the usual laboratory accident, and its development corresponds surprisingly well with the evolution of particle physics from the 1930s to the 80s."
Call It A Night, Cockboy! (Score:0, Funny)
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Cool car mod (Score:5, Funny)
Laugh-a while you can, Monkey Boy! (Score:2, Funny)
I dunno (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Laugh-a while you can, Monkey Boy! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Weird science (Score:5, Funny)
All the I know, is that The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (Across the Seventh Dimension), was the worst thing that I ever ever got in charades once. My sister got Jaws!
Buck-A-Roo! (Score:4, Funny)
Curse that headline. I thought this was going to be an article about the inner workings of some extreme version of Buckaroo! [firebox.com].
I was so disappointed when I found out it was about a sci-fi film.
Buck-A-Rooooo!
Just another jab at intelligent deisgn... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Buckaroo Banzai was easy to identify with (Score:2, Funny)
Lesson to be learned (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I dunno (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I dunno (Score:4, Funny)
Now excuse me while I go phlib my enjuntificator.
Re:Weird science (Score:2, Funny)
this movie was groundbreaking! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Laugh-a while you can, Monkey Boy! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Lesson to be learned (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but one heat-seeking missile and he's *history*.
Re:Weird science (Score:3, Funny)
Just... just hold on... that's good. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just... just hold on... that's good. (Score:1, Funny)