"How Real-Life Science Influenced Guardians of the Galaxy" Topic

"Of all the people who are partially responsible for Friday's much-anticipated Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy—studio head Kevin Feige, co-stars Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana, Jack Kirby and Jim Starlin for pioneering Marvel's "cosmic" stories—the most surprising one might be scientist Richard Feynman. Not that the celebrated physicist known for his work in the fields of quantum mechanics and nanotechnology contributed directly to the movie in any way (having died in 1988, that would've been unlikely), but without Feynman, GotG screenwriter Nicole Perlman might never have gotten involved in writing in the first place.

"Science was my gateway drug," Perlman says, "so I tried to see if I could apply my interest in science stories to actual science—and discovered that the nitty gritty is a lot less exciting than the stories."

Growing up in Boulder, Colorado, which is home to a number of aerospace companies, Perlman's father's weekly book club was filled with … well, there's no other way to put it: "A lot of people in that book club were rocket scientists." And many of them were former students of Feynman from his time at Caltech. "I grew up hearing stories about him, and just being immersed in this pro-science-fiction, pro-science background," she says…"

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Based upon my experience with a pair of hungry, garbage-can robbing raccoons, I can attest to their ferocity, and intelligence.

Fortunately, they didn't have guns, a spaceship, or other alien pals in tow, so that is my extent of experience with them.

I eventually won the altercation through my own bravado, and superior height, but it was a close-run incident.

Again … that is why they call it science "fiction" … I think Jez from Old Crow worked on this film too …