History Main / SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay

* FasterThanLightTravel: Spaceships can travel faster than light.

Compare SpaceIsMagic, which goes [[RefugeInAudacity above and beyond]] mere technical inaccuracy. See also: ArtisticLicenseAstronomy, TheCoconutEffect, and MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness.

* SingleBiomePlanet: A planet with only a single climate.

* SpaceZone: Space levels in video games.

* UnrealisticBlackHole: A black hole with strange properties.

* WeirdMoon: Odd depictions of the Moon in fiction.
* WeirdSun: Odd depictions of the Sun in fiction.

* TwoDSpace
* ArbitraryMaximumRange
* AsteroidThicket
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace
* ContinuousDecompression
* ConvenientlyClosePlanet
* EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy
* ExplosionsInSpace
* ExplosiveDecompression
* FlamingMeteor
* FrictionlessReentry
* GravitySucks
* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace
* LatexSpaceSuit
* OldSchoolDogfight
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale
* SingleBiomePlanet
* SpaceClouds
* SpaceFriction
* SpaceIsAir
* SpaceIsCold
* SpaceIsNoisy
* SpaceIsAnOcean
* SpaceZone
* SpySatellites (not that spy satellites don't exist, but they are frequently used unrealistically in fiction compared to RealLife)
* StealthInSpace
* StreamingStars
* UniversalUniverseTime
* UnrealisticBlackHole
* WeirdMoon
* WeirdSun

Thanks largely to ScienceFiction, space is probably one of the most [[HollywoodScience inaccurately portrayed]] things in modern media, to the extent that complete falsehoods are [[TheCoconutEffect widely accepted]] as fact.

This is a very specific kind of research failure, which may have been partially justified in earlier media as [[ScienceMarchesOn there hadn't been much research on the subject yet]]. Modern portrayals of space, however, still haven't changed much from the [[TheAsteroidThicket rock-filled]], [[SpaceIsNoisy noisy]] place which will make an unprotected human instantly [[ExplosiveDecompression explode]] into [[SpaceIsCold clouds of ice]].

* VulcanHasNoMoon

Thanks largely to SpeculativeFiction, space is probably one of the most [[HollywoodScience inaccurately portrayed]] things in modern media, to the extent that complete falsehoods are [[TheCoconutEffect widely accepted]] as fact.

Compare SpaceIsMagic, which goes [[RefugeInAudacity above and beyond]] mere technical inaccuracy. See also: MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness, TheCoconutEffect.

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Some of this is due to a lack of research or just [[TheyJustDidntCare lack of interest]]. But most of the modern misrepresentations can be put down to the RuleOfCool (the idea that [[SpaceIsNoisy things with sound]] are cooler, or at least [[NothingIsScarier not as scary]], as [[{{Film.Alien}} a famous tagline]] pointed out, as things without), [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality artistic license]], or simply the belief that audiences [[TheCoconutEffect wouldn't accept it any other way]].

Some of this is due to a lack of research or just [[TheyJustDidntCare lack of interest]]. But most of the modern misrepresentations can be put down to the RuleOfCool (the idea that [[SpaceIsNoisy things with sound]] are cooler, or at least [[NothingIsScarier not as scary]], as [[{{Film.Alien}} a famous tagline]] pointed out, as things without), [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality artistic license]], or simply the belief [[ViewersAreMorons that audiences]] [[TheCoconutEffect wouldn't accept it any other way]].

Overlaps ArtisticLicenseAstronomy. Compare SpaceIsMagic, which goes [[RefugeInAudacity above and beyond]] mere technical inaccuracy. See also: MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness, TheCoconutEffect.

!!Specific kinds of SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay include:

This is a very specific kind of research failure, which may have been partially justified in earlier media as [[ScienceMarchesOn the research back then wasn't up to much]]. Modern portrayals of space, however, still haven't changed much from the [[TheAsteroidThicket rock-filled]], [[SpaceIsNoisy noisy]] place which will make an unprotected human instantly [[ExplosiveDecompression explode]] into [[SpaceIsCold clouds of ice]].

* [[TwoDSpace 2-D Space]]

* OldSchoolDogfighting

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* TwoDSpace

-->-- ''WesternAnimationTheSimpsons'', ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Planet from Outer Space]]''

->''Captain, we've been attacked by some sort of force ray! Gah! Gyah! Space air is flooding in!''\\
''Right. Goggles on!''
-->-- ''TheSimpsons'', [[ShowWithinAShow The Planet from Outer Space]]

* {{Two-D Space}}

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This is a very specific kind of DidNotDoTheResearch, which may have been partially justified in earlier media as [[ScienceMarchesOn the research back then wasn't up to much]]. Modern portrayals of space, however, still haven't changed much from the [[TheAsteroidThicket rock-filled]], [[SpaceIsNoisy noisy]] place which will make an unprotected human instantly [[ExplosiveDecompression explode]] into [[SpaceIsCold clouds of ice]].

Some of this is due to a [[DidNotDoTheResearch lack of research]] or just [[TheyJustDidntCare lack of interest]]. But most of the modern misrepresentations can be put down to the RuleOfCool (the idea that [[SpaceIsNoisy things with sound]] are cooler, or at least [[NothingIsScarier not as scary]], as [[{{Film.Alien}} a famous tagline]] pointed out, as things without), [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality artistic license]], or simply the belief [[ViewersAreMorons that audiences]] [[TheCoconutEffect wouldn't accept it any other way]].